Day 18 of 31 days of Pinterest

OK, I admit it I am a fun mom. As many moms I know who are organic, no sugar, no dye, special diet yada yada moms that is just not me (well not all the time anyway). I do follow healthy eating plans most of the time but I allow for special food treats more than I should I am sure. While this particular treat sounds awful to me I just knew it was something my girls would love when I was taken via pinterest to this blog (when I say awful don't take that wrong I just dislike artificial fruit flavors other than banana) but these colorful treats are to cute not to make.

They are just cute, fun and colorful. You even could use something other than trix like the organic version of these that are pretty yummy or even fruity cheerios which I happen to like more than most artificial fruit. things. This blogger gave a great photo tutorial on how she made these and its basically the same as making rice crispy treats.

Day 11 of 31 days of Pinterest

I often see these really elaborate cupcakes and cakes that Moms make for birthday parties and holidays. I drool over their fondant skills and precision. It's just not a skill I have. I would likely spend a small fortune on the proper supplies and tools then do it once and watch the supplies collect dust. I began seeking out easy cupcakes and cakes a few years ago.

This was the cake I made for my then 7 year olds birthday

It was pretty simple I made a two layer square cake, and stacked them together, frosted with pink dyed frosting. I took 4 sugar cones and spread chocolate frosting on them and rolled them in colored sugar. The "blocks" around the cake are sugar cubes and the windows and doors are wafer cookies. I found the fancy candles at a local no name dollar store. It was far from "professional" but she loved it and every time her birthday rolls around she talks about it.

Now the pin that inspired me to start planing for my soon to be 4 year olds party is this



The pin unfortunately only linked to the photo and not directions but from the photo it looks like both regular and mini Neilla wafers and some gel for the mouth and eyes on chocolate frosting. Looks simple enough for me to try. She is all about monkeys and "Georgie" aka curious George. These should be a big hit with her and is in my skill set. win!

*if you are the owner of this idea & photo please contact me so I may give you proper credit

Day 4 of 31 days of Pinterest

Well Keeping up with Themes its still "fun food friday" I am a sucker for fun foods anymore and I likely search them out more than other topics on Pinterest than other things. I'm currently working a building up a stash of tools to make our foods even more fun. Yesterday I hit up dollar tree and was suprised with the amount of cheap fun food tools. I got two packs of silicone baking cups, silicone totem head ice cube trays thinking I will use them as jello molds or healthy fruit snack molds or even for some fun koolaid ice cubes. I also got a butterfly sandwich cutter. A few other things caught my eye but I didn't want to get to crazy. I am known for going into Dollar Tree and telling myself "it's only a dollar" and before I know it I am at the register handing over $60 lol. For years we have said "lets to a tiki/Hawaain party for Mo's birthday" Mo is our second youngest and the only Summer birthday aside from my husband. All our other girls usually wake up to a foot of snow on their birthdays. Now Dollar tree has tons of fun Hawaain stuff to acomplish this goal. Then, I found this awesome pin.

We're gonna need a bigger boat!

This would round out a Tiki party wonderfully. Now Im not quite sure I have the skills to do this but I sure will try! This blog gives great details on how to do this.

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Fun food Friday

I doubt my older sister reads my blog but she would get a giggle out of this. I remember my mom was always trying new recipes and made some strange meat with red sauce and beans. Now from that you may think I'm talking about chili but it wasn't I think squash was involved too. She served it with mashed potatoes. It was awful, and inedible. We piled up our mashed potatoes and used the beans as "clifdivers" and called them bloody divers for the streak of read sauce left on the mashed potatoes. Now mashed potatoes are fun to play with in the kitchen.

How about some meatloaf cupcakes with mashed potato frosting, you can even dye potatoes for different colored "frosting" if you have some fun shaped pans you can make hearts, stars etc. I have even seen it as a April fools cake decorated with peas and "April fools day written in ketchup.

*photo by hhm.

Fun Food Friday

I often see these adorable lunches made by other moms. I usually sigh, and say to myself "some people have too much time on their hands" Then, I started showing my kiddos some of this food art and saw their little faces light up and realized nope, these are just moms coming up with creative ways to get their little ones to eat healthy. While I certainly don't have the time to do this daily I aim for once a week and "Fun Food Friday" was born.

My youngest little sweety going gaga for fruit kabobs