Cupcakes & Cocktails Bachelorette Premiere

Yeah yeah yeah...there's another season of The Bachelorette and OF COURSE I'm all about that show and can't be more excited for the next few Monday nights!!! I came across this idea for a Bachelorette party and so I incorporated it into my Monday nights. I figured that it could be a super fun upcoming Monday nights at my house with my girlfriends enjoying nothing better than some cupcakes, cocktails, and The Bachelorette with some girl time with your girlfriends! Gotta LOVE the creators of the show...or at least I do. I can even call it a slight obsession of mine but really, I'm not ashamed to admit it since it began when the first Bachelor started and it's escalated ever since then and is never ending for me!
I kicked off the season with a couple of my girlfriends and the night couldn't of been any better! The cupcakes I made were some delicious lemonade cupcakes that I found online and figured why not try 'em since it's Spring and it seamed fitting. Along with those, were the cocktails. I decided to just spike some pink lemonade with some vodka to go with the lemonade cupcakes. Yep...DELICIOUS!!! We then started a Bachelorette Bracket so you can just call this a sport too right?! I found the bracket and prinited it and put pictures of the bachelors on the back side. I happily started off my week the good way with some cupcakes, cocktails, girlfriends, and THE BACHELORETTE! Couldn't get any better than that and I'm already anxiously waiting for next Monday night!!!




I used roses and hearts that I found

 to decorate the cupcakes

for the final rose through out

and the broken hearts being made!

THE BACHELORETTE BRACKET

                                                                   All the Bachelors...

If and when Blake and William

get sent home, I might as well

find them for myself.

Especially Blake since I read he's

in Steamboat Springs, even though

the showing said he's

from South Carolina...

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BEAVER CREEK

So I heard my cousin, my mom's cousin Kerri, was gonna be in town for a few weeks in Vail and Beaver Creek for work.  I decided I definately had to make my way up there and see her!!!  I've never been to Beaver Creek before so I was excited I got the chance to go and spend some time with her up there.  It was a FUN weekend non the less.  I made my way up there and we did some shopping and ended the first night with a concert.  That was fun and I coined my new nick name BRA from the fun time at the concert!!!  After the concert we went home and decided to go in the hot tub with the FREEZING cold weather to warm us up.  Well that didn't work out since it was broken.  DARN IT!!!  After that night we decided that Sunday was gonna be a day of good shreadin' on the mountain.  Well that plan didn't work out so well since it was snowing ALL day and we figured, we're not going skiing while it's heavyly snowing.  There were others that were crazy enough to bust out their ski's, not us!  I was sad 'cause I even ended up getting some new ski pants and couldn't use them.  Well that's what I thought would happen but then I ended up getting stuck up there for another day as I tried leave since I had to work on Monday but then heard that the freeway was closed and so I couldn't get back down.  Well that just told me that I was able to hit the slopes then and hopefully by the time I'm done shreadin', I can make it home that night if the freeway's are finally opened.  It worked out just like that, even though I felt horrible for missing work but was stuck so it ended up being fine.  It was SOO fun to do some shreadin' and luckily my knee didn't even hurt from being hurt the last time I went skiing the previous year.  I had SOO much fun with my cousin and even made new friends that were friends of my cousin.  GOOD times had on my weekend in Beaver Creek!!!

Warren gave my nick name BRA- hilarious!!!

Me and Kerri had FUN at the concert!!!

ROCKSTARS!!!

Boy band opening act...

Hell's Belle's/ACDSHE girl band...

Beaver Creek

 The CRAZY snowy weather...

Just 'cause the weather was snowy didn't mean

we couldn't sport our gear and make it out there...

Time to get our shreadin' on...

 What a fun new way to get to the next lift!

I have being skiing my WHOLE life and never wore

a helmet while skiing, besides ski school when young,

but Kerri did and said I had to too.  Safety first right?!

 Off to the top we go...

The top of the mountain. 

Yep, my camera went skiing with me too!!!

My skiing partner...

Apparently there's gonna be some cool

ski thing going on in 2015. I gotta go there!

Took some shots on my way to BC...

BRADEN MADDOX KARDOES

My nephew Braden Maddox Kardoes came into my life on saturday March 19, 2011 at 5:41 pm!!!  He topped the charts at 9 lbs. and 21 inches.  He's one healthy BIG boy!!! 
There's a story with his entrance, not a lovely one.  I had a busy day planned out that day.  It started off as my sister going into the hospital to get induced for Braden to come in the early a.m. and then my friend's wedding at 4 in the afternoon in Downtown Denver.  I set my alarm early so I can get ready for the day and make my way to the hospital before he comes and wait till until he does.  I was all ready and put my dress and stuff for the wedding in my car and then on my way.  I knew I'd be there all day until the wedding since you never know when they're really coming and figured, who wears a dress to the hospital?!  Well the day kept going and it came around the time to go to the wedding in an hour or so.  Well the doctors come in and we needed to leave the room as they did some stuff with Dacia.  It ended up being more than an hour and when I saw the time I had only 30 minutes to get to Denver for the wedding.  Had I not left my keys and purse in the room I could've seen the time and left from there and make it to the wedding since he wasn't here yet.  That was my plan- bring wedding stuff and when he was born go see him, since I figured he'd be born while I was at the wedding, then go back to the wedding and have fun.  Well that plan didn't work out how it was planned out in my brain and so I SADLY missed my friend's wedding.  I suppose I could've just made a very late entrance to the wedding but figured that wasn't right for me to do so I opted out of that option and missed the WHOLE wedding night fun.  Darn it for that to happen :(
All in all...I happily have a new nephew in my life joining his sister Rylee to bring me all the joy in life that I need!!!!

Braden Maddox Kardoes

9lb, 21in

5:41 pm, 3-19-11

B and his happy Auntie Ray Ray

His bedroom is ready for him...

It'll be time to sleep in his crib with the bedding I got him once he's ready...

DUE DATE...

Today is my sister's due date and the expected date of when my nephew Braden Maddox should be here.  He has decided that he just isn't ready quite yet.  Well she will be getting induced on saturday morning and then he'll decide when he's ready to come out of the oven on his own.  HAHA!!!  Before he comes I've worked on my latest project that I saw some where and decided to make my own.  I made a sign that says THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE BOYS. 

Here's the finished product with models and all...

Since Braden's gonna be a winter baby I decided to incorporate his parent's love for snowboarding into the picture.  He even already has his own littlle snowboard!!!

Dacia's anxiously waiting and ready for her SON

 to change her family into a family of four!!!



I'M SOOO READY FOR MY NEPHEW BRADEN MADDOX TO GET HERE ALREADY!!!

COMP CARD

Alright alright...so I was looking around craigslist for certain things and came across this listing of models needed.  I couldn't resist to email the person who posted it because it was perfect for what I was looking for, other than the reason I was looking on craigslist.  I was ready to pursue a modeling career 5 years ago and then my accident came upon me and halted that search in my life.  During the close to 5 years of recovering I have become more out going and that person again wanting to pursue modeling.  I was given 10 out of the 29 shots for free.  I often get my picutres printed at Walgreens and I get emails from them and I got one for a free collage print of pictures.  I thought it was perfect for what I need...a COMP CARD to show agents/people my modeling pictures.  There were 29 shots of me to choose from and so I did just that and chose these ones to put in the collage for my very first COMP CARD.  Now it's time to edit the card and put my basic info in and then it can really be my comp card.  If it doesn't work out, it was fun doing my first shoot in I'd say like 9 years.  Hopefully there will be more shoots to be done!!!  Let's see if it gets me anywhere...

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My sister's baby shower

So when I heard my sister is pregnant I had the immediate thought of "I GOTTA THROW HER A BABY SHOWER!"  In all reality, I had this thought way before she actually became pregnant and just kept wondering when she was ready to have her 2nd child 'cause I knew she didn't want just one.  Well that time came and so I was on my baby shower mission.  My sister's friends and mom, my step-mom, wanted to give her one too so we actually all went in together for throwing her a shower.  It started out as just the normal blue stuff for a baby boy, since that's what she's having.  We went and got the decor, plain blue & white, and were half way through the planning.  Well then I came across these table clothes that were SOOO much better than just plain blue.  They were blue, brown, and green.  I thought it was so much cuter so I asked if we could change it.  My sister ended up liking those colors better so I got the ok to change it.  I even found this cute ribbon with blue and green before that so that worked out perfectly that I got it before.  I was thinking about nursery rhymes and such and remembered the FROGS & SNAILS & PUPPY DOG TAILS- THAT'S WHAT LITTLE BOYS ARE MADE OF one and so that was so perfect to incorporate into the shower.  I then went and got blue, brown, and green paper and made a framed sign with that saying.  I then found the letter B and knew I could do something with it to incorporate his name.  I think the shower turned out to be a good one and Dacia is one lucky girl to have family and friends that couldn't resist participating in it. 

I'm pretty bumbed that I ended up not taking any pictures of the decor and everything 'cause that is what I usually do the best!!!  I was just too busy trying to make sure it turn out to be perfect.  BUMMER!!!  Oh well now but here's some shots that I did take at the shower...

Here are the decorations I made.  Because I changed the theme of the shower I just knew

I could find cute things for it.  Luckily I found some frogs, snails, and puppy dog tails at Michaels.  That was just a perfect find.  I painted the board brown and glued them on it for a cute little decor when you walk into the room.  I then found a perfect size B letter and some cute, and cheap, ribbon to go on it.  I painted the B brown as well and then glued the ribbon on it with Mod Podge.

Of course there's always the guessing game of how many jelly beans there are.

There were 222 jelly beans of each color: blue, brown, and green, in the blue bottle.

(This isn't how it was set up at the shower)

Here's the set up at the shower of the decor I made,

minus the jelly bean baby bottle and the new chalk board

lined with the same ribbon on the B, added so people

could walk in and learn the name of my nephew to be's name

BRADEN MADDOX KARDOES

(his name was written with blue chalk but it's hard to see

because of the glare from the flash)

The baby shower in my neighborhood party room...

 

Gotta LOVE Target!  I went walking through Target a few day before the shower and stumbled upon these popcorn holders in the dollar spot.  Since they were only one dollar each I got a few and just knew they could be used some how at the shower for cute decorations and snacks.  I thought I could just make some cute picture and saying and glue it to the cup.  I did just that then filled 'em up with popcorn.

I think they turned our just fine but could've turned out a little cutter.

Here's the cake I made, once again.  I am not pleased with my cake AT ALL!!!  This is the third time I've made it for the third baby shower I've done.  For some reason it turned out to be the worst out of the other ones.  I think the first one was the "perfect" one.  I think it turned out like this because of the lack of time and maybe old fondant but really lack of time probably.  I planned to finish it all the night before the shower but it just didn't turn out like that 'cause I was getting tired from finishing up other things and figured I could do the fondant in the morning before the shower started.  I'm either thinking the fondant I used was maybe too old to use so that's why it cracked SOO easily or I was just trying to work with it too fast.

Either way a cake is a cake and this is what it officially turned out to look like...

Looks shouldn't be everything because everyone LOVED the taste of it- COOKIES 'N' CREAM

Cute BIG SISTER RYLEE was helping mommy with her presents.  Dacia's 2 best friends

were the ones who wrote everything down for the thank you cards and gave her the presents and took

the trash away- along with Rylee helping with presents. 

And then there was me: THE PHOTOGRAPHER...

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All in all her shower turned out to be just great and she got lots of amazing things for her up and coming

 first baby boy!!!  I know Rylee's gonna be the BEST big sister!!!

I'm now patiently waiting for my nephew

BRADEN MADDOX KARDOES
to get here already.  I do have a few weeks of waiting
though 'cause he isn't due to be here until March 16th.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO MY GIRL!!!

I went over to bring my niece Rylee her Valentine, watermelon sour patch kids, and learned that she's home sick with no school for the day. That didn't mean that she wouldn't get her Valentine from me. Maybe a little candy can make her feel better right?! HEHE!!!

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