What a SWEET weekend!

Now many of you are thinking right away that it was a sweet weekend because it was three day weekend with no work or school on Monday. And it was sweet for that reason. It was also sweet because Brandon didn't have to work much of it and we got to spend some time with him. It was sweet to get to watch the race with our friends the Fields on Sunday night (even though Kasey didn't win and is still not "in" the Chase). It was sweet to spend a lazy day in the Boro with family and Timothy swimming, eating and playing Wii. But the real SWEET of the weekend comes in the baking and decorating that went on here this weekend.
Dawson had checked out some crazy kids dessert book from his schools library. He had asked and begged and begged and asked to make something out of the book. So finally I said, sure, which ones? He picked a Dessert Pizza and Cupcake Cones. I quickly realized this book believed in making things from scratch . . . I mean everything from scratch. Going for the quick, easy way out, I went to the internet and found the Betty Crocker version of Cupcake Cones, and the Pillsbury version of Dessert Pizza.
Also on Thursday, Becky and I found a delicious blog where a woman makes truffles, cake balls, and desserts that we could not believe. (at this time we are refusing to release the blog name until we have amazed all of the locals with her recipes, hee hee ) After drooling over the delicious blog, I had decided I needed me some Oreo Truffles, Nutter Butter Balls, and Red Velvet Cake balls.
Parts of each day of this long sweet weekend were spent making and eating above sweets. Dawson and Sophia had a great time making big dessert cookies to celebrate Grandpa Stahly's birthday (which I forgot to take pictures of). They also loved decorating the cupcake cones and shared them with the neighbors.
It was such a "sweet" weekend that as Sophia woke up this morning, she said "Mama, my tummy still hurts from all those sweets I had this weekend." Lucky for her, it doesn't happen too often here.

(oh and Gracie learned this weekend how to climb up and over the couch on to the sofa table and throw things from it)