McKenzie is a junior in High School and this is her second year of being on the cheer squad. Amazingly enough when I went to the first cheer booster club... I came out the President. Call me crazy but even though it’s actually a lot of work I totally love doing it. I've gotten to really know the girls on the team as well as the coaches and I have to say I love each and every one of them.
This past week was homecoming and what a week it was. Besides cheer there is also a 28 member dance team at the School. I like to make treats during homecoming for our girls to give to them just because that’s how I am. This year I decided on chocolate dipped pretzels. I googled around and thought it looked easy enough so on Wednesday I went to work on them. Why oh why just once couldn’t it look as good as the ones on the internet? There were pretzels pictured with crushed M&M's and they looked amazing. Mine... not so much and I use the term "not so much" loosely. Could it be because I beat the heck out of mine with a rolling pin? How else was I suppose to crush them? It didn't give directions for that part... of course not that would be too easy. Is it just me or do you think they leave out a key part of instructions just to mess with us? I switched to chocolate with sprinkles and chocolate with drizzled white chocolate and finally managed to make something presentable. Thursday, I put them in bags with ribbon and tags. Whenever I do something like this, I always add some kind of cute quote on the tag to make it special. Here's how they turned out.
Next was treats for my cheer girlies. If you haven’t been to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory you are missing out. Besides everything else… they have the most amazing caramel apple. The last two years I have placed an order for 20 of them. Of course they also had to have ribbon and tags added but no big deal that’s easy. Easy yes… fast no. Who would have thought it would take so long to attach ribbon and tags to pretzels and apples. I was up until after . For those of you who don’t know I’m usually in bed by 9, sometimes 8, possibly 7 and maybe a time or two 6. Oh well they were worth it… here they are.
So… you thought I was done right? Nope I had to get up at the crack of dawn on Friday to make cupcakes for the clam chowder fundraiser at the school before the big game. Luckily I can pretty much make cupcakes in my sleep because that’s exactly what I did.
Since I was to tired at this point to decide between lemon or chocolate… I made both. J
Did I happen to mention we were not only having a Clam Chowder Feed Fundraiser before the game but I was in charge of it? That my friend is a blog in itself. I'm not posting any pictures because that is definately not the highlight of my week. Let's just say it ended up fine but had it not been for the other great parents helping, I would have resigned as President, ran home and cried.
We won the football game on Friday night and Saturday was the big homecoming dance. I had two hair appointments... my niece and my daughter. I think I spent a total of 3 hours curling and 3 cans of hairspray. They are both beautiful girls but I have to say their hair turned out equally beautiful. I don't have a picture of Delaney but here's Kenzie's group.
Sunday....was there a Sunday? If so I slept right through it. It was a great week but it was equally great that it was over. :) "Life's better with butter" but sometimes you need to add lots and lots of caffeine. Dear Lord thank you for the opportunities to use my gift of hospitality. I hope my recipients see a little of you in everything I do.
