Minecraft Grass Block Cake Tutorial with @MerryAboutTown

When it comes to cake decorating, this girl needs all the help she can get.  I  can't be the only one out there!

Of course, our kids all want the latest thing on their cakes, and I know many a Mom breathed a sign of relief when Minecraft block pixelation came to save the day!  Oh thank you Minecraft designers for making dirt, and grass a cool thing!  You are the best!

Merry About Town came up with this Minecraft Grass Block Cake Tutorial to help all of us challenged Moms to look like superheroes to our little Minecrafters.

Today is Evan’s official birthday so the Minecraft posts are going to slow down and/or stop. Mostly because I don’t understand Minecraft enough to write about it. There seems to be lots of building, killing animals for food and fending off Creepers. If I actually listened to everything Evan told me about Minecraft, I would be an expert. Instead, I listen for 5 seconds and then my brain turns his voice in to the “Wah wah waaaaah wah” of Charlie Brown’s teacher.

Editor's note: I hear her...oh how I hear her.... 7 segment LEDs.....

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Super Easy Minecraft Cupcakes

So I love gaming, and being "the best Mom ever" and making my boys think I am the craftiest, handiest, Mom Ever!!!

I can knit up a lot of awesome things for them, but creating decorative cupcakes, and cakes that are picture worthy?  NOPE.  I pretty much am a decorating fail. But I think I can do these awesome Minecraft Creeper Cupcakes from about town:

I’m not sure how it happened but Evan is turning 7 this week. It seems like just yesterday that he was a tiny squishy baby. Now he is a tall boy who loves his Mama, Minecraft, Skylanders and Lego. He had very specific instructions for Skylanders cupcakes but it sounded a bit too complex for me. Thankfully I was able to talk him in to Minecraft cupcakes instead. Pixelated faces? I can do that!

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A Video Game Birthday Party with @tlsofmommyhood

Tales of Mommyhood recently did an awesome Video Game Birthday Party for her son's birthday party!  Let's check out what she did:

When planning his party, he wanted a video game party. Then he wanted a water fight party. Then he wanted a video game party and I finally told him we could do BOTH!  We kept our fingers crossed that we would have a hot day for the party (so much better to have a water fight on a hot day) We contacted a mobile video game service and booked them for 90 minutes (8 year old boys seem to LOVE video games).

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