3 peas in the pod

OMG!!! TRIPLETS!

Yes, triplets! So 3 peas in the pod was an adorable theme to this baby shower!

Here are all the minis that went along for the guest in raspberry lemonade

mint chocolate chip

banana cupcakes/peanut butter w/chocolate drizzle

YUMMY!!

xoxo, Mama Bird

Be Mine! {Valentine cd}

Did you know that my heart skips a beat for a MIX TAPE? well, it does! I LOVE a fun variation of music and if it has a “theme” all the better! HA! So being that Valentine’s Day is just around the corner I thought I would make a mix cd! One that would put a smile on my face and one that I could play and dance around with the kids!!

I found this adorable printable cd cover from one of my new fav daily reads Dandee Designs.  You can download it HERE and read more info about Danyell’s mix tape here.

here are my eclectic picks:

Rhythm of Love Plain White T’s

Candy Girl- New Edition

Marry You- Bruno Mars

PYT- Michael Jackson

Sir Dude- Stevie Wonder

Good Feeling- Flo Rider

Kiss- Prince

Say Hey, I love you- Michael Franti &Spearhead

My 1st Kiss- Kesha

Little Bit of Feel Good- Jamie Lidell

Better Together- Jack Johnson

Stand By Me- Prince Royal

*I purchased all songs from Amazon mp3

What is on your Valentine’s Mix?

xoxo, Mama Bird

60th Birthday

60th Birthday

Love this simple/funky design

xoxo, Mama Bird

Perfect Pot Roast

This is the PERFECT Sunday, family day, comfort food!

I love the rustic and homey feeling that I get smelling this all afternoon roasting in the oven.

Like all my recipes I tend to use what I have at the time so I rarely have the exact same meal twice!

olive oil, drizzle enough to coat bottom of pan

2 onions, quartered

3 carrots, chopped

2 stalks celery, chopped

Roast

salt/pepper

4 cloves garlic

2 tsp thyme

1 cup beef broth

1 cup red wine

1 pkt Lipton onion soup mix

Drizzle olive oil to coat bottom of Dutch oven, get pan really hot and toss in onions, get a nice char on them and remove, add celery and carrots, garlic and repeat. Then, generously salt and pepper beef, sear all sides and ends, remove. Deglaze pan with red wine and broth. Add seasonings, beef and veggies back to pan. Place in preheated 275 oven for 4 hrs. or longer. It just keeps getting better.

For variations you can add mushrooms, squash, beets, potatoes, leeks, parsnips, anything!!

ENJOY!!

xoxo . mama bird

30th Birthday

Happy 30th Birthday Elizabeth!

I designed the cake to look like the invitation.

You like?

xoxo, Mama Bird

Sophie… the giraffe cake

Sorry, the lighting on the blackberry is terrible! I love Sophie the giraffe (a rubber chew toy for babies) and thought using that as inspiration was such a great idea!

Love this cake!

xoxo, Mama Bird

BBQ {in the crockpot!!}

so, it is finally feeling like winter and has been raining all weekend, ugh! Hubs was craving bbq and I didn’t want him to catch pneumonia by going out to his smoker every 20mins! Pork Loin was on sale so I tossed it in the crockpot with salt, pepper, garlic, crushed red pepper, and poured apple cider vinegar about half way up the side of the pot. Set to low and let it go all day!! 

Drain the majority of cooking liquid out of crock and either make a yummy bbq sauce with the liquid or pour your fav bottled sauce in crock, pull apart with fork and ENJOY!!
xoxo, mama bird

“SNOW” Doh {play sand}

Talk about a fun activity to do while it’s cold outside!! This was a blast, not going to lie, it made a huge mess but, the time they spent quietly playing was well worth having to pull out the vacuum!!

Recipe:                                                      

1 5lb bag flour

1 15 oz baby oil

Dump flour in a big bowl and drizzle baby oil all over the flour mix well and you will have the softest sand ever!! I think next time I may add a little food coloring (paste) in the oil to try for colored sand!!

 

xoxo, Ms. Kat

50th Birthday

Happy 50th Birthday! xoxo, Mama Bird

40th Birthday

My dear friend Annette turned 40! She deserved a special cake and I really loved how this turned out!
xoxo, Mama Bird