I can already tell that summer and next year will be full of baking days!!!(:

Okay, so Toni's boyfriend Taylor is graduating this year so I decided to

be nice and get him a graduation present. Since he loves food, cupcakes especially,

I am going to make him these. They are chocolate with a chocolate kiss in the middle.

I have all of a sudden have begun to make cupcakes for Crave about

once a month. Next time I decided to make them, these are what I'm making.

These are smores cupcakes. I'm not totally sure what is in them, but

I guess I will find out!

Okay. This stuff is simple. I will be making a HUGE thing of this to take

on Choir Tour for my room. I hope my room will be Morgan Fleming, Hollan

Jayne VanderHey, and Graci Gelebert. Matty Drolette and Bailey Shipp

may end up in there with us.

I am the best girlfriend EVER!! I have this whole little surprise planned out

for Brandon when he has basketball tryouts and all I have to say is I am pretty

sure these little bad boy's will be in there somewhere. (;

Now this just looks colorful and yummy!! Fourth of July will be filled 

with family, fun, and food. The four F's!

Update on Jason

This is a little late, But this is what Sonia posted last week.
I Feel The Need To Tell You

that you guys are incredibly smart.

And

I.

I
am
not.

Of course I came to this conclusion years ago
but the true extent of my non-cerebral self became glaringly obvious in 
The Great Spaghetti Blending Debacle of 2012. 

I had no idea.
I had no idea about gluten
and blending of pasta
and so on
and so forth
and such as
the Iraq.

First of all,
I was using
not a VitaMixer
not a Cuisinart
not even a real blender
but
well...

this

yeah.
A margarita machine.
`sigh`
I'm so ashamed.
That is my blender.
It's what I have.
My current choices are "shave"
or "blend."
And I've sorta figured out that is not going to work for me in this here circumstance. 

Moreover, I put a bit of butter and chicken broth in
with said cooked spaghetti and thatsit. 
No sauce.
No nuthin.
It's how the boy likes it
so that's what I put in it. 

So now after reading all your tips I

A: Feel like a complete tool.

and

B: Now know all about gluten and acidity of non-existent tomato based sauces and such. 

And for the record,
I have yet to try any more blended food....
and neither has he wanted me to.
I do believe I have scarred the child for life.

Moreover, we went to the surgeon today for a checkup and Jason has already lost 8 pounds.
8 pounds in 6 days.

I don't want to talk about that. 

But truly, in better news,
his surgeon was far from concerned,
said this was normal,
said the weight loss should taper off 
and will be un-wiring the poor teenager on Thursday, June 7th.

Which is my new favorite day.

Here's what Jason thought of the news:

Yep.
That's Jason.
And that is a whole lotta metal.

See that giant crack on his lower right jaw?
That would be the point of impact.

The other break is harder to see

 but that's it right under his un-erupted bottom left wisdom tooth.

And this
is him and his dorky mom the morning of surgery

He puts up with me.
And I love him for it.
And that would be his dad giving him bunny ears.
It's seriously like we are 12 years old or somethin.
Please don't tell anybody.

And this was his legs when I went back to recovery to see him.

Gigantor's legs don't even fit in the bed.
Which made me chuckle.

And then I saw this

Drugged up, knocked out, but darnit, kid still has his phone.
Which was actually pretty sweet.
Kids from his class were texting him scriptures and prayers of support all morning.
Which just makes this mom's heart smile.

And then there was the not so funny thing we discovered that day during the routine pre-op stuff.
That'd be this:

That'd be Jason's spine.
Jason's very curvy spine.
Jason's very curvy spine that we had no idea was curvy but now it makes sense why his brother is surpassing him in height.

We have no idea what the heck this means just yet.
They have ordered a scoliosis series to be done....
but ya know....
that would involve yet another doctor...
and yet another waiting room....
and well....just not now.
Later this week perhaps.....but just not now.
I'm currently operating on a one thing at a time approach to life between hearts and clefts and jaws and now this.

I'm off now to blend {in my friend Julee's borrowed actual blender...thanks Julee!}
a pint of Ben & Jerry's Late Night Snack Ice Cream into a milkshake.
60 grams of fat
16 grams of protein
plus all the goodness that the whole milk that goes with it brings.

Just don't say the word spaghetti anytime soon
and we can still be friends.

So I guess that about sums it up.
I'm a dork.
Ya'll are not.
And I am continually grateful that you love me anyway.

Praying for Jason Martin!!!!

Jason Martin is one of my good friends. He was at Frazer before I went, so I didn't know him too long. He is Brandon's best friend. Jason loves the Lord with everything he has! He has six little brothers, Jordan, Jack, Justin, Jacob, J, and Joseph. His dad is in the military so this past summer, the Martins moved to Tampa. Jason, Jordan, and their dad, John, come up to most of the Frazer church retreats. They were at DNow this past February. 

Baseball game began Thursday night at 6pm.
At about 6:15 Jason was hit.

Smack.
Blood.
Blood.
Blood.

Spit.
Blood.
Blood.
Blood.

Turns out it was a 92 mph fast ball.
I know this only because the other teams pitcher is ginormous
incredibly talented
and was being scouted by scouts with radar guns pointed at him.

92mph fast ball
vs
Jason's jaw.  

At first I thought he had just lost a tooth or two.

Psssh.
No bigs.
We will deal with that after the game.

It's how I roll.
And I know it's how he rolls.
This was a big game after all.

But then after about 5 minutes of spitting up blood he said,
"Mom, my face is numb."
only it sounded like
"Maaww mi fasssss iz num" 

And I don't know much.
But I knew at that point it was more than a tooth.

So off we went to the nearest acute minor illness clinic with xray capability.
They took him right back and
shockers
they thought his jaw was fractured at the point of impact without even doing an xray yet.

And a bit of trivia here for you:
Apparently mandible fractures don't show up on regular xrays.
Nope.
Tis true.
They said he needs a dental panoramic xray
or a CT scan.

Neither of which they have there.
So off we go to the local community hospital.

CT scan.
Fracture
Fracture
Fracture
on both sides of his jaw.

Dandy.
Just dandy.

So a few hours later....circa 12:55 am....after communicating with the local children's hospital, loading him up with anti-inflammatory meds to combat the excessive swelling, fluids and some antibiotics they loaded him up in an ambulance and we were told to expect surgery first thing in the morning.

Mrs. Sonia was told that Jason's jaw was aligned. He wasn't going to need surgery. He went back to the doctor and this is the news they got.

After a no good terrible horrible rough day yesterday
We found out that Jason will be having surgery today
to wire his jaw shut
for 6 weeks.

Surgery at 12:15, please pray for Jason!

If you want to keep up with Jasons injury, Mrs. Sonia will keeps us posted at cheaperbythehalfdozens.blogspot.com