New spring wreath

New season means new wreath. My Pinterest board has been full of ideas and I've been itching to craft!

I wanted something springy and still super easy. I decided to stay with my yarn wreaths. This time I opted for a spring green color with pink, purple, and white flowers. I choose a different type of flower than my other yarn wreaths. I'm horrible at taking pictures while I'm crafting. Here is how they turned out, and there is a great tutorial here.

 

I added a band of pink and white to balance out the flowers. I tend to go flower crazy, and wanted to keep this wreath simple. 

 

I love how the finished wreath turned out. I asked Nate what his opinion was and he said "Looks like we're celebrating a baby girl." I told him I was going for spring, and he said it did that too.

 

4 years ago...

"It all started with coffee, then dinner, then dessert, and then forever."

That is what is written on the front of the card that I got for Nate to celebrate our 4 year anniversary. Only on our firts datet, we started with dinner, then coffee, no dessert, but still forever.

Last year I wrote the story of how we met, so I won't bore you with all of the details again. If you want to read about it, click here.

I know 4 years isn't a long time, but we looked for each other for a very long time, and these 4 years of marriage have been the best 4 years of my life. We have started a family with an amazing son and a daughter on the way. Nate has blesed my life in ways words cannot express.

I love you through and through,  Nate, and I always will. Happy anniversary!

Our Gender Reveal Cupcakes

A few days ago, I posted our gender reveal and promised a post with the details to my cupcakes. Here is said post. :)

I wanted to make something pink, but not boring. I found a link to some cupcakes on Pinterest here and decided to give them a try. I must say, they were yummy!

I used a brownie mix, a strawberry cake mix, and cream cheese frosting. I mixed both cake mixes according to the directions on the box and preheated the over to 350.

After mixing, I put a spoon full of browning batter in each cupcake liner, and then filled the rest with strawberry cake mix until the liner was 3/4 of the way full. I yielded about 2 dz cupcakes.

I put my muffin tins in the oven and then turned the heat down to 325. They baked at 325 for about 25 minutes. Once cooled, I frosted with cream cheese frosting.

 This is what it looked like out of the liner.

Cut in half.

 Frosted and decorated with pink sprinkles.

I will be making these again, and maybe experimenting with flavors and colors. So easy to make...yummy!