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I can't believe May is almost over!

It has been such a busy & fun month! 

If I could sum up this month in 3 words, it would be:

 Cupcakes, Cornhole & Celebrations

We ate a lot of Cupcakes this month.

We played a lot of Cornhole.

We had a lot to Celebrate!

Here are some highlights of our May via my phone!

The first weekend of May started off with the Kentucky Derby.

Our family is BIG into horse racing. 

My inlaws were at this year's Kentucky Derby and of course, being from California, we were rooting for California Chrome.

Kate was REALLY excited with California Chrome won, she went up & kissed the TV.

 When you watch the derby, you must have a Mint Julep!

 I only had 2 requests for Mother's Day. I wanted to sleep in & I wanted Eggs Benedict for breakfast.

Done and Done. Kevin made that happen.

My loot of gifts from my kids :)

A house in our neighborhood had termites. Now, whever I see a tented house I think of Breaking Bad. Which, I finished this month. Yes, I watched all 5 seasons within a 5 week period. SO good!

 One of the biggest highlights of our May was my niece being born! So fun hanging out at the hospital on the big day!

Lots of celebrating for the arrival of a healthy baby girl.

 Friday Night Pizza Night when the weather is warm means having dinner poolside.

My favorite pizza combo...pepperoni, pineapple & jalapeno. SO good!

My neighbor Steph and I dominated at Corn Hole that night. So much fun!

Kate had her final Softball game of the season. Such a fun year. She cried when the season was over because she was going to miss her team so much. After her last game, we had a mother daughter game. It was so fun!

 

We had Open House celebrations at school. Love the Shape Town that Kate's class made!

 For Memorial Day weekend there was tons of swimming and tons of yard work.

 

We also celebrated my birthday and Kevin's birthday.

Since Kevin's birthday is the 18th & mine is the 30th, we celebrate with our families the weekend in between.

My family was on Saturday. My parents have the best view!

Sunday afternoon we went to pool party with friends

Our court has a cupcake & cornhole addiction.  Ha!  I was not playing good cornole this weekend. Me & my partner got beat way too many times to count. It was still fun!

 Yesterday I had a mini photo shoot for Olivia's birth announcements. I can't believe she has strawberry blonde hair! Such a cutie!

 So, there you have it. Our May in a nutshell.

We had a very fun and busy month and it's not over yet! 

More celebrating this weekend since my birthday is on Friday!

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month and my Rodan + Fields SPF & Sunless Tanner Sale ends on Saturday!

Buy 1 item with SPF , get 1 at 50% off!

 Details of the sale on THIS post!

 And, this Friday is Pin-Spired!

Link up your Pinterest inpsired outfits with me, Sheaffer & Shay!

Hope you have a happy Wednesday...it's almost the weekend again and 2 weeks until school is out!!!!

This summer, the girls and I have been watching Cupcake Wars.

We love that show!

Last week, we were getting bored....swim team was over, most of the things on our Summer List were checked off & soccer hadn't started yet.

The girls asked if we could have our own Cupcake Wars!

I said sure! 

They each "created" a cupcake that we wanted to make. 

They sketched them out & we gathered our supplies.

Luke even designed one :)

 

 Claire wanted to make "Under the Sea" Cupcakes. She wanted them to be vanilla cupcakes dyed blue with jelly beans mixed into the batter. She wanted blue frosting with Swedish Fish on top....here is how they turned out:

 They were REALLY sugary. So, if you like a lot of sugar (like Claire!) you would love these ;)

Kate wanted to make Butterfinger Cupcakes....Chocolate Cupcakes with chopped up butterfingers inside, a peanut butter buttercream, with more butterfingers on top:

If you like Butterfingers, you would LOVE these cupcakes...I need to blog them :)

Luke wanted Red Velvet cupcakes....his favorite color is green, but he is currently obsessed with firetrucks (which is why I am throwing him a Firetruck birthday) so he wanted red firetruck cupcakes with chocolate & white chocolate chips:

 He wanted colorful sprinkles on his red cupcakes:

These were actually really good! Loved the chocolate chips inside!

 One of my favorite candy bars is Snickers, so I decided to make Snickers Cupcakes.

 

These were my favorite...I swear I wasn't biased ;) 

I posted my recipe at the end of this post!

Here are all 4 of our cupcakes:

 I thought I would blog my Snickers Cupcakes...they were SO good!!!

 Here is what you need for the cupcakes:

 -Chocolate Cake Mix (I use German Chocolate)

- Skippy Salted Caramel Peanut Butter

- Caramel Sauce

- Snickers Bars

Make Cupcakes according to package directions.

While your cupcakes are baking, make your Peanut Butter Caramel Sauce:

I melted 2 Tablespoons of Skippy's Salted Caramel Peanut Butter & then added it to 1 cup of Caramel (I used store bought caramel & added the PB & caramel to a squeeze bottle)

Once my  cupcakes were cooled, I squeezed some into the chocolate cupcakes!

 Yum!

 Then it was time for the frosting:

 I made my go-to Buttercream!

 Add the Snickers on top & then use more of the salted caramal peanut butter & squeeze some of that on top as well!

 If you love Snickers, you will love these cupcakes!

 The peanut butter caramel mixture is delicious!

 If you love cupcakes like us, here are some more cupcake recipes I have posted:

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes:

Caramel Candied Bacon Beer Cupcakes:

I will have to blog Kate's Butterfinger Cupcakes next....they are so good! We made a peanut butter buttercream frosting for them....delicious!