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Here is the result of the S'more cupcakes...

What a goof...

A cute goof.

And dinner...

Yes, i feed him occasionally.

When i can stomach the smell.

I have decided that i can PREPARE the meat just not cook it.

Honey Barbeque Chicken strips and cobb salad.

cupcake

I LOVE baking Cupcakes! mmmm...

Black Bottom Cupcakes

What is bad about these guys?

Chocolate... goood...

cream cheese.... goooood....

chocolate chips.... GOOOD...

And S'more Cupcakes

Okay so i am being lame sauce by not blogging EVER anymore but...

my appetite has changed with my nose.

I cannot eat cool food anymore.

Example:

Orzo Shrimp and Pesto Salad...

Finish making it... 

NO GO!

Couldn't take a bite.

I know i talk a lot about baby/pregnancy right now but it seems i have 

baby goggles on or something.

I think about the baby all. the. time.

I guess it is good Nick is busy right now because i think he might get tired of my rambling!  :)

Another note:

Sorry i miss home...

but this is the view from our kitchen.

-AND-

Inside that kitchen are my Daddy, Mommy and brother

Do you ever play worst case scenario?  I do... ALL THE TIME
For example: We are on the plane headed to Germany, i lay out the sleeping bag on the floor (cargo plane not commercial) and cuddle up under the seats (to stay out of the aisle as much as possible and to block the light) so then i start playing in my head... What if the seats crashed down on my head?  Then i think about me at the hospital and them telling me that the part of my brain that was smushed was the part that told the rest of my body that i am pregnant and because this trigger was released i needed to be very careful.  My brain might start tricking me into doing things that are bad for the baby so Nick was going to have to watch me for the next 6 months to protect the baby... fast forward i am going into labor and completely denying it because i don't think i am pregnant, the labor is awful i rip a ton because i am so tense and won't believe anyone... yeah i do this ALL THE TIME ... this all stemmed from my head being under a seat while laying on the floor.  I am weird.

On a separate note, i am now officially making two dinners.  This morning i bought all of the stuff to make some pulled lime cilantro chicken for tacos, even as i type this i want to vomit.  The sound of it now makes me sick.  SO... i bought beef for myself and i made two meats for tacos.

  I have also been cooking what sounds good to me and then eating cereal instead while Nick enjoys the food i can't even look at.  LAME SAUCE!

Carrot Cupcakes

I made Carrot Cupcakes by Martha and they didn't turn out.  This time it WAS my fault.

I switched a few things.  I didn't want coconut and walnuts IN the cupcakes so i just doubled the carrots but i think they held too much water and weighed them down.  I used half sugar half brown sugar because i like the taste and i added a dollop of cream cheese that i sweetened with sugar and chocolate chips... 

Martha's untampered recipe is here:

Carrot Cupcakes

This is to show you that sometimes things just don't turn out... don't fret

FROST!

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See these cupcakes in my prego shots here:

My Little Cupcake

Lead me

Sanctus Real - “Lead Me”

I look around and see my wonderful life
Almost perfect from the outside
In picture frames I see my beautiful wife
Always smiling
But on the inside, I can hear her saying...

“Lead me with strong hands
Stand up when I can't
Don't leave me hungry for love
Chasing dreams, what about us?

Show me you're willing to fight
That I'm still the love of your life
I know we call this our home
But I still feel alone”

I see their faces, look in their innocent eyes
They're just children from the outside
I'm working hard, I tell myself they'll be fine
They're in independent
But on the inside, I can hear them saying...

“Lead me with strong hands
Stand up when I can't
Don't leave me hungry for love
Chasing dreams, but what about us?

Show me you're willing to fight
That I'm still the love of your life
I know we call this our home
But I still feel alone”

So Father, give me the strength
To be everything I'm called to be
Oh, Father, show me the way
To lead them
Won't You lead me?

To lead them with strong hands
To stand up when they can't
Don't want to leave them hungry for love,
Chasing things that I could give up

I'll show them I'm willing to fight
And give them the best of my life
So we can call this our home
Lead me, 'cause I can't do this alone

Father, lead me, 'cause I can't do this alone

 

Healthy habits... gone like the wind

Okay so i WAS eating plenty of veggies...

actually i still am BUT

MAC AND CHEESE

You are so tasty.

Grandma please don't hate me for eating it out of the box.  

Homemade is better but my patience is not.

Another note,

Does anyone recall Stromboli's restaurant outside of Disney Land Hotel?

I DO.

I dream of their Sundried Tomato Cream Cheese and Bagels.

I did my best at recreating the recipe even though i haven't had the pleasure of it's taste in probably 16 years...

I threw sundried tomatoes, basil, garlic and pepper into my food processor and then added some cream cheese...

Good my friend.

Slimy and red

Can anyone tell me what is weird about these dinners?

...

TOMATOES!

I hate tomatoes but every dinner i have made lately has tomatoes in them!

baby...

LOVE THIS!

http://tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com/

Angry people and scaring Meagan

So today a lady decided to FEIST me about coffee.  She was shouting at me from the counter, i was pretending not to hear her because she was being rude until she said "...that B**** isn't even listening to me".  I knew this drink i was making wasn't hers but i did what she was yelling anyway because i too was a little feisty but still myself and didn't want to fight her.  I placed the drink on the counter and called it out, double tall iced caramel macchiato.  I then went back to making drinks and made another tall iced caramel macchiato.  When i put this one on the counter and called it out she said "oh wait, that one is mine, this one isn't."  I replied oh, so you mean i just ruined this drink because i listened to you yelling at me from behind the counter and went and poured it down the drain... (yes, i know i was feisty too but please be nice to people who do monotonous jobs... we get tired too!)  THEN... she points at another employee and says "come here", "That girl is slapping S*** down on the counter and i don't like it."  I looked at her and said, if you have a problem, I am the manager and you can talk to me about it."  She put her hand up.... 

No joke, just like that...

Are we 5?

OH WE ARE THROUGH!

Later she said, "Miss Manager, i can see you are having difficulties today so i am just going to leave."

!!!

LOL, Meagan tells the story like this:

I AM THE MANAGGGEEERR!

She said i scared her so she just kept her head down and pretended to stir a coffee. 

LOL

I like to think of myself more like this....

I am the Manager, you can deal with me!

:)

Either way i feel pretty Bad A.

I decided that pregnancy hasn't made me feistier like people are saying,

I already thought the things i am now saying.

I just feel more confident all of a sudden to stick up for myself.

It is refreshing, i like it!

Flourish By Lillie

GO CHECK HER OUT!

My friend Lillie just opened her Etsy shop and it is Ama-zing!

Seriously!

I bought 4!

This is the Brittany!

(I think it is named after me...)

I bought it.

This is Julie, i bought this one too...

Lindsay... i bought it...

And Melissa... i think i bought this one too...

NOW YOUR TURN:

flourishbylillie

Thank you Tongeren!

These are just some letters i finished for Laura and TJ and their baby due next saturday!

I had an ABSOLUTE FANTASTIC weekend!

Friday night we went out to celebrate our baby with our friend Roger and Sheila.  We had mexican food and they bought us some baby books! YAY!

Saturday morning we went to Mannheim so Nick could fly and i layed out in the sun for a while reading and took a nap.  WONDERFUL!  We left and went across the street to IKEA for some grub and to look at chairs for the Nursery.  Then we went to the BX to look at chairs for the nursery and cribs.

TODAY... we woke up early and headed to Belgium with Roger and Sheila to a flea market (literally, there were fleas everywhere!) It was so much fun!  We bought...

This beautiful chair!

SO EXCITED!

The guy said it's Italian and he bought it in Paris, now we bought it in Belgium.

Don't you just love our world traveled chair!

WE DO!

A little less exciting, but i love em none the less...

Our croquet balls!

See what else we bought here...

To top it all off we had Liege Waffles...

MMMM!

Thank you Jesus for all of your blessings you are pouring out upon us, we are SO grateful!

How to Eat a Cupcake...

How to eat a cupcake like a ROCKSTAR!

I have a bun in the oven! :)

So here is my official first pregnancy post!

We are pregnant!

Here is the proof!

I will now be blogging about the pregnancy at this location:
http://how2eatacupcake.blogspot.com/

How we found out:

I woke up and took the test, it came out positive so i called Nick, he didn't answer and i took this as a sign that i should tell him in at least an attempted cool way... so i took a shower

I checked that the test was still positive about 3 more times before leaving the house.

I wanted to get baby balloons and tie them to "What to Expect When You are Expecting" and surprise him while he was teaching.

My plan was foiled.

The Bx did not have the book, the craft store was closed and the flower shop was out of helium.

I bought some baby colored balloons and held them in my hand :(

THEN our camera stopped working right when i was trying to tell him... so no picture of us crying...

because we both did! :)

First Prego Pic:

Who was the first to know?

Denise Robinson

Nick's coworker and our friend.

She came into his office and found me reading Fit Pregnancy then i asked her to take pictures of me telling Nick with our broken camera! lol

Who was the first family member to find out (We had to wait for America time)?

Poppa Wirth: Future Grandfather extraordinaire

Expected Due Date:

December 18, 2010

Names:

Girl: Addison Grey Cooley

Boy: Jack ----- Cooley

I STILL like Thunder...

Jack Thunder Cooley (lol)

i also like 

Jack Sawyer Cooley

Nick says no... and it's his son too...

How i have been feeling:

ight... i feel nauseous all the time but have not spilled a cookie ;)

I feel achey but not tired

I feel scatterbrained, i have lost my good memory and my mind is a million places all at once!

To prove my mind is everywhere:

P.s. do you dance when you are brushing your teeth?

We do, Nick and I have dance off's in the morning or we make up routines...

I like us.  :)