BRITTANI'S SWEET 16 PARTY!

YEP you read right! Britt is turning 16 (tomorrow!!!) and we celebrated her Sweet 16 by throwing her an amazing party! We had slushies, cotton candy, karaoke, milk chocolate fountain, white chocolate fountain, lots of candy everywhere and to top the night off ~ a whip cream fight and a chocolate slip n slide! I didn't get near the pictures I would have liked because I didn't have someone (that I won't name ~ DEBI) to help remind me and guide me so I was running around aimlessly most of the time trying to make sure everyone had a full glass of slushie and a cotton candy in hand!

It was a blast and I'm hoping that it will be a day she will remember forever! (I'm thinking she will because she told me it was "the best night of her life") I LOVE YOU BRITTANI!! HAPPY SWEET 16 BABY!!! (crying, crying...)

Britt picked out this cake online, and was in love with it, but I told her there was no way I could get this cake for her and she was soooo excited when it arrived!!

This is not what she wore the whole night, she changed after a few hours of hard partying LOL.

Time to eat!!

Random photos ~ Britt and the girls doing karoake, the flowers I gave Britt for her special day, the babies looking cute and waaaay too much weight on the trampoline! LOL

THE CHOCOLATE SLIP N SLIDE!!

ALL ABOUT TUESDAY!!

My Tuesday update for this week is a GREAT one. She is doing FABULOUSLY. Getting stronger every day and definitely kicking this cancer's ass!!! GO TUESDAY!! She is still in the hospital in the oncology ward (not the PICU, YAY!) but the family is hoping she will get to go home, even if for just a couple days before her next round of Chemo.

Just look at this beautiful face... Look at her smiling. She is fighting so please keep helping her by praying for her and making donations to help the family cope with the huge medical bills. You can also still purchase Tuesday apparel to spread the word about her fight against Neuroblastoma and remember that ALL profits go straight to the family.

Please rememeber to go to the family's website and share your prayers with them EVERY TUESDAY. They really look forward to reading them and realizing every day how many people (many complete strangers) pray for and truely care about their little girl.

PLEASE KEEP PRAYING!

Don't stop now!!

BEST BROWNIES EVER!

Ok so as I'm sitting here stuffing my face full of brownie, I started to think that I have to share the recipe with you all because this recipe is the best brownies EVER! I seriously have to stop myself from eating them all!! This recipe has been passed down in my family and now I am passing it on to you. I took them to Brittani's volleyball game the other day and everyone LOVED them! And they are pretty easy to make too!

Here is what you will need:

3 sticks butter (or margarine)
6 tsp Cocoa
6 eggs
3 C sugar
2 ¼ C all purpose flour

1 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
1 large jar marshmallow cream

chocolate icing (receipe below)

1. Melt butter then mix with 6 tsp. cocoa. Let cool.

2. Add 6 eggs and 3 C sugar and beat well.

3. Add flour, salt, vanilla and walnuts (if desired).

4. Spread in 12 x 18 well greased pan and bake at 350 for 35 minutes.

5. White still very hot (right out of the oven) spread marshmallow cream evenly over the top.

6. Now cool completely then top with icing (recipe below - this is the best part so DO NOT skip the icing recipe below!!). (FYI - I keep them in the fridge since the icing has milk in it.)


Chocolate Icing:
3 T Cocoa (heaping)
2 C powdered sugar
½ C Crisco
¼ tsp vanilla
Dash salt
whole milk

Mix everything together then add milk til smooth and creamy. ENJOY!!! And be sure to let me know how you like them!

LABOR DAY WEEKEND

We didn't really do anything exciting for labor day weekend. Friday we went to the Pirate game, Saturday we had Marcelo's football game, Sunday... ummm.. I can't remember what we did Sunday LOL... I guess we just hung around the house and Monday we invited my parents over and we swam in the pool and cooked out on the grill. Just a nice fairly lazy weekend. But it was so nice just to enjoy one of the last weekends of summer with family.

I'm not sure who this is, I think it's Kalia but boy doesn't she look like Marcelo??

The girls enjoying blowing some bubbles with daddy.

Sooo serious..

What?? I didn't do anything!!

So not a baby anymore, but a big girl. :(

ALL ABOUT TUESDAY!!

Ok so miraculous things are happening! Tuesday is back on the Oncology floor and has been reunited (and playing happily) with all her siblings!! She even took a ride in a wagon with her twin sister pulling her along!! She even had a smile on her face all day yesterday! God is doing AMAZING things with this little girl that's for sure! Keep praying!!! It is working!!

Tuesday's mom has updated her blog.. please check it out by clicking here.

A PIRATE GAME!

On Friday Gus and I decided to take Brittani, her friend Cody, Marcelo and the babies to a Pirate's game for the evening. Gus had gotten free tickets to the game plus free all you can eat tickets, so how could we pass up that opportunity??? We arrived at 5:30 just as the gates were about to open and we found our way up to the Pirate's Cove where they had a very nice buffet set up with FREE BEER and everything! WOOHOO! Ok so I only had one, but still, it was FREE BEER at a MLB game! Everyone else had to pay like $10 a beer! Anyway.. I'm not really into baseball but it was so fun. I asked Brittani's friend a million questions (he plays baseball almost year round in 3 different leagues) and we all talked and laughed and enjoyed the beautiful scenery. Pirate's lost... of course.. but it was still such a great night out and even the girls had a BLAST!

Sofiya and Marcelo striking a pose!

Enjoying the game

Such a giggly girl!!!

Great view of the city and Britt with Cody.

Look at those cuties!!!

And just because...

AND THE WINNER IS....

Valeriana Schroeder from California!! She won the tutu for purchasing a product off the cafepress site for Tuesday. CONGRATULATIONS VALERIANA!!! I'm so jealous as I'm dying to get my hands on one of Dana's tutu's!!

Stayed tuned because i'm sure there will be many more giveaways to come!!