Phineas and Ferb Lunch - Agent P

We end this week of lunch boxes featuring Phineas and Ferb character's is Agent P.  I found an easy way to make Agent P here.

What you Need:

Bread

Knife

White Cheese

Yellow Cheese

Brown Food Writer (I used Wilton Candy Writers)

This is a simple one since you keep the shape of the bread, I but off the top and sides to keep it square.  For the mouth I did that by hand.  I made the bottom lip to be like a half circle and the nose and top lip I made it look almost like a T with rounded edges.  You could print out his face and use a template but I figured I could do it by hand.  The eyes I used a circle cutter and cut it in half.  I used my Wilton candy pen in brown to make a line and then circles in the middle to look like eyes.  Add some fruit, veggies and an egg :).

Another simple one to make!

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Phineas and Ferb Lunch - Ferb

On my Phineas and Ferb lunch boxes, yesterday you saw my Phineas and today I will show you my Ferb.  He actually was my favorite!  Thanks to some wax paper used as tracing paper he came out pretty darn cute if I must say so!

What you Need:

Wax Paper (like tracing paper)

Printer to print his head

Flour Tortilla

Spinach Tortilla (for his Hair) or use regular tortilla and color green

White Cheese

Circle cookie cutter

Black Gel Frosting

First I googled Ferb, copied the one I wanted and saved to a word file.  I made him the size of my opening in my food container.  I then cut out his hair so I could do his hair from the spinach tortilla.  For the head (minus the hair I cut off) I used a whole wheat tortilla.  I folded up some meat and cheese to put in between the two tortilla's.  I then took my circle cookie cutter to cut out the eyes from some white cheese.  I used black gel frosting for the eyes.  I place the green hair on top of the head to pull it all together.   Served with some grapes, mini rice cakes and a few Cheetos. 

Another simple one to make!

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE. 

Phineas and Ferb Lunch - Phineas

My boys love Phineas and Ferb so I thought I'd give my hand at making the main characters for their lunches!  We will start with my Phineas.

What you Need:
Triangle Cutter 
Bread
Carrots
Egg
Olive
Fixings

I found a triangle sandwich cutter the I used for his head.  I made a small triangle cut for his mouth.  For his eye I cut the circle from an egg and then a little bit of black olive for the eye. I was going to use a little black frosting gel but we had olives the night before and had a few left over :).  For the hair I cut some carrots strips.  I added some cheese and meat.  Cole loves hard boiled eggs so I cut one up for him and some grapes.

Another simple one to make!

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE. 

Years in the Making ...

I'm so excited this weekend I had the chance to meet one of my favorite bloggy friends Stacy from Stacy Uncorked.  I have been following along with her life and kids for years.  She cracks me up and makes me smile everyday.  She even makes her own wine and sells it, yup a girl after my own heart.  Then when I found out she was nerdy girl like me loving books and SciFi I knew we would be friends for life.

She currently has moved back to the area, which is the best part since she moved right by my parents! I just know that we will be great friends.  We took the kids to a bounce up place in the mall.  2 hours for $6 a piece, they bounce and we could chat.  It was so nice to have a girlfriend to talk to and none of those awkward long pause's where you are thinking to yourself when is this going to end and when will I be able to go home.  We had a GREAT time and I can't wait to meet up again!

Group Photo!

Ok don't mind my hair it was raining bad here!

She even brought me wine :)

 

Leaving on a Jet Plane

As I've mentioned in the past I work from home.  I've been extremely blessed to do so, I'm able to work for a company in MA while I live in WA.  The 3 hour time difference makes my world work amazing to keep my life with the kids and doing all the other things that I throw into my world ... lol.

This will be the first time I get to meet my bosses and my co-workers.  I've been blessed working for them for around 6 or so years now.   With kids and life it is not easy to just pick up and go visit so it is such a blessing with Rick's sch, friends and my parents that the kids are going to be taken care of.  I leave next Tuesday and will fly back Saturday night.

Usually my daily clothing is yoga pants, so this means I need new clothing!  My old dress clothes when I worked outside of the home I have donated since I have lost 100+ lbs since then.  I have been on the hunt for the perfect outfits.  Fingers crossed I think I found what I needed.  Maybe I can get a few pics of me in the outfits to see what you all think!  Fingers crossed I don't forget anything or loose my mind in the process!

Wish me Luck I'm not the best flyer!

But hey at least this time I will fit in the seat belt!

Touch Down!!! Football Cupcakes (Almond Footballs)

For Cole's 3rd Flag Football game I decided cupcakes would be fun to do.  WELL fun was what I thought and felt when I made the cupcakes.  THE overcast day turned into an 80 degree day leaving my cupcakes looking like pools of blue frosting.  GRRRR ... Well at least they were cute when we first got there, and a few of the kids even said thank you.  One of the mom's even came over "To SEE what Super Mom made".  Have you ever had a person say something about you and you could just feel the sarcasm?  YUP that comment and little smile was so touching ... NOT.

Now onto the cupcakes!  I wanted to do something new with a cupcake!  His team is the NY Giants (yes no clue we live in Washington but hey go with it).  The colors are blue and red.  So I made cupcakes in a red cupcake liner and then I made a pop of color with blue frosting!

I used my favorite white cake mix for the cupcakes and my sturdy buttercream frosting.  Click the names for the recipes.  I've posted the recipes so many times for the sake of my regular readers I've stopped posted the same recipes over and over again :).

I took wilton blue icing color to tint the frosting to the right color.  I pipped it on and then went on to making the little footballs to top the cupcakes.  

Football Toppers

What you need:

Chocolate Covered Almonds

White Decorating Icing

Take a chocolate covered almond using your white decorating icing make a line across the long way then add 3 lines across that line to resemble laces on a football.  I started with a fun sparkle Wilton decorating icing but it wouldn't set up and started to run.  I switched to the normal Wilton White Icing that was sturdy and stayed put.

After all the cupcakes were frosted and the almonds were decorated and added to the top of the cupcakes I did my normal trick and put them in a clear cup, added a clear bag and tied it with a red ribbon to stay with the color theme.  Mind you I buy all this at the Dollar Tree.  10 plastic cups $1 (used 2 1/2 packages), 25 plastic bags $1 and roll of ribbon $1.

Another simple one to make!

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.