A 4 day adventure...

This weekend was INSANE!!! A 5 day, non-stop weekend, complete with a Twilight party, shopping with my little cousin, and bubbles... I was totally exhausted by the time I got home yesterday!

Saturday was my friend's Twilight themed slumber party... For which I made a cake, chocolate wildflowers, and both vampire and werewolf themed chocolate dipped strawberries!!! I was pretty domesticated.. and pretty proud of myself!!

My cake didn't come out as cute as I was hoping it would... But we still ate it. I even made the icing from scratch (heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar, and red food coloring)!! And the white "hearts" on the bottom are strawberries that I cut in half and covered with white chocolate. See.. I was domesticated!! Ha.

 I did that cake on Friday night.

Saturday, I had a lot of time to kill so I decided to make some chocolate. When I was growing up, my grandmother and I would make chocolate candies for christmas. We would melt the chocolate down in her microwave and pour it into molds, freeze them for a few minutes, then take them out and decorate them. It was one of my favorite things we did every year.

I'm guessing when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year and a half ago (she has since then passed away) or maybe even before, she gave my mom the molds we use to use. We have all kinds of molds.. I know that some are them are in fact from my grandmother, but some of them... well let's just say, I am glad I washed them first, because I have no idea where they came from. But we did have a wildflower mold. So I made chocolate wildflowers, using the same method I use to do with my grandmother.

I also had strawberries left. Which led to the vampire and werewolf themed strawberries. The vampire ones were milk chocolate and white chocolate mixed with some white-ish, glittery sprinkles on them; the werewolf ones were milk chocolate dusted with some brown sugar.

The picture to the right is one of my hand after finishing the werewolf strawberries.. I was covered in it!!

The party was so much fun!! I don't actually have any pictures from the party.. That's because we watched all four movies in one night. So let's skip on to Sunday.

I shared a bed with the best friend at the slumber party. When we woke up that morning, it was FREEZING!!! Which is stupid because it had been almost 80 degrees outside all week and we had been wearing shorts... In February!! But then it decided to get cold. Fortunately for me, I hardly ever wear shorts.. I almost always wear jeans. And I had packed these in my bag... I also had a few things in my car still from a recent movie job, so I just grabbed my long sleeved t-shirt to throw under my VIM (Very Important Monkey) shirt from the 100 Monkeys tour last summer... Toasty warm!! I am so glad I don't clean out my car sometimes.

After getting dressed, we hit the IHOP... mmmmmm. Pancakes. Then back to the house to play Twilight trivia games.

My friends and I had gone get my little cousin before heading to IHOP, so when we left... we became really bored. So bored, in fact, that we went to the mall. And if y'all knew this mall, y'all would understand why we have to be so bored to actually go there. We shopped at the FYE and a few other stores before we saw this...

A BABY DINOSAUR!!! Not really.. It's some sort of salamander or something. This picture isn't a good one of it, but you can get the main idea. They are so ugly that they are cute... I almost bought one and named it Jasper. I think that Jasper would be an awesome pet name!!

Even if this guy's name is Jasper. And people make fun of me. I am going to get a something and name it Jasper. But now I am thinking Jasper should be a GUINEA PIG!! The guinea pigs come in later though... Monday to be exact. Y'all just don't know how bored we really get. And how easily.

My cousin and I left the mall empty handed.. as much as I wanted Jasper (I had picked him out and everything... of course this is also before I decided he should, and probably will, be a guinea pig), I couldn't bring myself to buy him. My mom would have killed me and then killed him if I would have. So Jasper has to go find someone else to love him...

We were still bored, so we headed to Target... I LOVE Target. They have such cute clothes and stuff there. Of course, we didn't buy anything there either. This only lasted about 30 minutes.

I don't even remember how we got in contact with her mom and dad (my aunt and uncle). I just remember my cousin saying to go to the gas station by their house so her mom could bring us the house keys.. and somewhere in there, her dad gave us 100 dollars for a sushi dinner.. She's 12, I mind you. And they gave us 100 dollars for dinner. I love my family!

Here she is with the money.. And by the end of it, we had none left. Because the bill was 92 dollars (after my cousin and I ate... and ordered to go orders for her parents) and I left the rest for a tip.

The total for the whole meal, including our after dinner ice cream run? 110 dollars. Nice, huh?

The next morning, I woke up to find a text from the friend who had the Twilight themed party.. She was going pick up her goddaughter and wanted us to go get lunch with them. So we got more money from my cousin's mom and headed to Olive Garden.

I had soup and salad.. She had spaghetti. Which surprised me.. she is usually a mac and cheese girl. But we still had fun and got to meet an adorable little four year old!


Again.. My cousin and I got really bored. So we went shopping. And this is where the guinea pigs come in. I have no idea what made us start talking about those, but before we knew it, we were at Pets Mart. And I decided that Jasper should be a guinea pig. A blonde guinea pig. My friend and I were texting at this point... I told her that I wanted a guinea pig named Jasper. She suggested that he should be a cockatoo instead (inside joke), but I can't afford a cockatoo. And they live too long. So a guinea pig is what I shall get. Eventually.

Shopping got boring too. So... Chuck E. Cheese anyone? Yea.. we went there. And since there isn't much to say about the next few pictures... This will be quick and dirty...

She looks happy, doesn't she?

Fun right? This also lasted about 30 minutes, before we decided this was lame and bailed. For coffee. 

We both got large white chocolate mochas.. And attempted to write. The coffee was amazing. The writing? Not so much.

I tried to work. I really did. But nothing I wrote sounded good. So I made a paper airplane out of my short story.. And my cousin bit it.

She also graffitied my coffee cup. Thanks a lot. But she does know me really well. So I found it pretty funny.

After coffee and an unsuccessful writing session, we decided that what the world needed was more bubbles. And hula hoops. So we went to walmart for bubbles.. we already had a hula hoop.


Here is my little cousin blowing bubbles. We were extremely bored so we opened the car doors on my car and cranked some tunes.. which included 100 Monkeys, Mechanical People, Taylor Swift, and some other things. We even did some zumba in her driveway!!

This weekend was crazy.. but also very fun!! Lots of adventures!! And plenty more to come!!



Peace and Love!
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Jasper Cullen photo credit: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jasper-Cullen/186266091428219