summer vacation

turns out when you're an "adult," summer really loses its awesomeness. especially if you happen to be saving up all your vacation days for, say, a three week european vacation extravaganza. thus, my beloved summer -- formerly a time of lake powell trips, daily regis & kelly viewings, leisurely afternoons and sneaking into neighbor's swimming pools -- has become just another season where i'm trapped inside corporate america 8 - 10 hours a day. boo.

however today was a great day. we got out at 1:30 p.m. and i'm FREE until monday morning. three and a half whole glorious days, mine all mine -- welcome to my summer vacation.

we kicked off the weekend with celebratory cupcakes from dots. we really like this place but not because it is particularly good, more just because it's right down the street from my house and also -- let's be serious here -- i'll eat just about anything with sugar and butter.







here's a wild confession for you -- as much as i love cupcakes now and have fully joined the trendy food posse, i will admit i used to hate them. in elementary school i refused to eat them, maybe because they were fed almost weekly to us for birthdays and other events and they were usually waxy and gross. and also my grammie ran a wildly successful cake decorating business out of her north hollywood home for 30 years (she made wedding cakes for celebs, regular cakes for the studios, random cakes for everything else) and i grew up eating bowls of her frosting, so when it came to other frosting suppliers i was anti. good thing i grew out of that because i love love love cupcakes.

but i digress. in closing i should also add that we do not usually have special random desserts in the middle of the day, holiday celebration or not. but today is day three of BIRTHDAY FUN MONTH. both brandon and i have birthdays in july. in my family birthdays tend to last a week, so with two b-days in one month i decided to just throw in the towel and celebrate the whole dang month. we try to do something fun and exciting every day. so far this week we have played mario kart on the wii, watched jon & kate and now had cupcakes. like i said, we TRY to do something fun :) hopefully the coming days will be a little more exciting.

hooray for the long weekend!!!