Happy Easter!!!

After dying Easter eggs and all of our family Easter eve fun, the kids all passed out early and amazingly easy! The Easter bunny has even already come! I hope everyone has a wonderful, blessed Easter!! 

Also, today I made a new treat, S'mores on a stick! They were delicious!!! I am adding these to my menu along with a couple of other marshmallow lollipops! Will post pics of those when I get them started! :)

 

Today's Order

25 cake balls; 5 pink birthday cake, 5 red velvet dipped in vanilla, 5 strawberry dipped in vanilla, 5 lemon dipped in vanilla, and 5 chocolate dipped in chocolate.

Practice makes perfect!!

Well yesterday turned out to be a great success. It started off a little rocky though. Yesterday I had to make the cake balls for the wedding tasting and the bouquet. I got up and got started very early, being that I was sick the 2 days before I didn't get much done...so I go to my freezers to start getting out the already rolled cake balls and I find that I have NO birthday cake left!!! Uh Oh!!! So I scoop Mady up and away we go to the nearest walmart!!! I get what I need and I come home, make the cake, pop it in the oven and start getting things ready for the dipping process. Well I start to dip the strawberry into the vanilla almond bark and neither the strawberry cake ball nor the vanilla coating was willing to cooperate!! But FINALLY I got things going smoothly! I got my bouquet done and although it's not the best lollipop bouquet I've ever seen, I was pleased with it considering it's my first one! Practice makes perfect right?! So today I am off to buy more pots and supplies and get to practicing on these....after I get my order for today done! Later it's off to the dentist with the 3 older kids!! (They can barely contain their excitement, lol) Hope you all have a wonderful day!!!!

Lots of orders!!!

Hi again! I had hoped to have a great blog about my day but unfortunately I have been sick all day! :( I have a cake ball order tomorrow for a wedding tasting and if they like them I will get quite a large order from that! I am also working on a cake ball lollipop bouquet for tomorrow! I haven't gotten near as much done as I had hoped due to being sick so I am hoping like crazy that I am feeling better in the morning cause I will have to get busy first thing!!! This will be my first lollipop bouquet so I hope it turns out as planned. I also got a call today about an order for 75 cake balls for a daughter's graduation party. I have only been working on these for a little over a week and already it seems to be taking off. I'm so excited about it! One girl says that she has a 4th of July party every year and this year she wants 300 cake balls!! And Emilee's teacher is having a baby in June and wants me to make "It's a boy!" lollipops for the hospital when he is born! How neat! So if the orders keep coming in like this I will soon be a busy (or busier) mommy!!! Yay!!
Well, I hope everyone has a great week! Goodnight!

Hello There!

Hi. Let me first introduce myself. (I am new to blogging so bare with me. lol) My name is Sara and I am a stay-at-home mommy of 5. I have 3 girls and 2 boys; Kaitlyn-11, Bryan-9, Joshua-7, Emilee-4 and Madalyn-2. My husband, Andrew, and I have been married for 12 years and we live in the very small town of Brooklyn, MS...about 30 miles south of Hattiesburg. We moved here from Madison, MS about 4 years ago. It was definitely a transition moving from the city to a small town in the country, there's certainly no more "just running to the store", lol. But I must say that now I really do enjoy the quiet and the space. 

I have always had a love for cooking and event planning...as far back as I can remember. The older I got the more I would experiment and try different things. I eventually became a serious home cook. My husband and I often entertain and there is always LOTS to eat (I have a tendency to go overboard when I cook for guests LOL). Everyone always complimented my cooking and I always got the greatest joy out of that. So about a year ago I decided why not take it a step further?! I have enrolled in catering classes and have begun the process of starting my own catering business. I have already catered 2 weddings and a business luncheon. I also have very recently joined in on the new cake ball craze and have orders for those coming up! I'm so excited and am having the best time! 

Now....I just have to make sure I can keep up with all of this along with chasing after my 5 children and making time for the hubby....it's always a crazy day here in the Alston household!!!