Weekend Summary

I suppose I'll start with Thursday night since I haven't blogged since then. Thursday I had to cater after school with the girls from my vocational class. We catered at this fancy hall called The Avalon in Merrillville for some kind of charity event. There were restaurants from all over the county that came and set up their own booth to serve food. Every booth had a different international cuisine. Everyone goes to the booths that interest them and eat a small plate of whatever that booth decided to make, and at the end of the night you put your ticket into the hat of the booth that you liked the most. Whichever restaurant has the most tickets gets an award. My partner Jenn and I worked with Bryer Ridge Country Club. I had worked with them before and decided to go with them again. They made Greek Beef Stifado, which is a braised beef with pearl onions, slow cooked in red wine and cinnamon (Which I must say was the best out of every dish in the place!). They accompanied it with sliced potatoes seasoned with thyme and pepper slivers roasted with herbed balsamic reduction.

This was the set up they had at their table.

Our booth was the one that won the award! (Don't mind me looking like poo) 

Totally irrelevant to my booth, but another table had carved vegetables into flowers and I thought it was simply beautiful. 

Friday was a boring day, nothing special happened. I napped from the time I got home from school to 7pm. Then I made my way over to my Aunt Tami's house for some family bonding :) Out of everyone in the family I'm closest with her and my two cousins, Brittani and Joey. I'm 27 days older than Brittani, so we've been close all our lives. I ended up staying the night there. We went to the movie store and rented Mario Party 8 and played til almost 3am before falling asleep. The next morning I slept in until 11am while Brittani went to her bowling tournament and Tami went to work. Joey and I played Mario Party until Brittani got home then I played Mario Kart by myself while they were playing computer games. I headed on home at 5 so I could meet up with my mom and spend time with her. We tried out a new cupcake recipe that I've been eyeing for a while. 

Graham Cupcakes with Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting.

Cupcakes:

1 cup flour

1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs

1 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1 stick butter, room temp.

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1/2 cup milk

Mix flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder, and salt. Beat in butter gradually. Beat in sugar and mix thoroughly. Beat in eggs, then vanilla and milk until just mixed. Pour into lined cupcake pan. Bake at 400 for 20 minutes, or until toothpick comes out almost clean.

Frosting:

4 oz. cream cheese

1/2 stick butter, room temp.

2 cups confectioners sugar

2 tbsp. key lime juice

Mix together ingredients with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Frost cupcakes. Top with sprinkled graham cracker crumbs.

They turned out very nice actually. The key lime juice in the frosting tastes amazing. They taste even better a day later.

And of course, here's baby cuddles laying in his favorite chair, watching me make cupcakes.

 Anyways, after cleaning up the kitchen I went back over to my Aunt Tami's house and played Mario Kart and Mario Party all night again with my cousins. Same thing happened in the morning, more Mario. Tami was off from work today so we went to Merrillville after she woke up. We went to a store called 5 Below. It's a store that sells things for $5 and below. They have the coolest things there, for cheap prices! With only $20 to spend I got myself a new auxiliary cord for my car, a new phone cover, an incense burner, some very lovely smelling incense, and a pet snuggie for the babies to share!  & you might ask how much I spent on all this stuff? Only $13! I was definitely a happy camper. If any of you live in the area, I highly recommend going there. Here are a couple more pictures from today.

Playing Mario Party 8 as soon as we woke up. (Boo's Haunted Mansion is my favorite!)

In my Aunt's bathroom right before leaving for Merrillville. I look so thrilled, can't ya'll tell? 

 And now I'm sitting in bed, sipping on a warm mug of green tea and watching the babies play.

How was your weekend?