February Celebrations

My mom and dad decided that February would be a nice time to get married, since it would break up the winter and give them something to look forward to.  It was a great plan...until both of their daughters wound up being born in February.  It's the shortest month of the year and we end up with four "holidays," not counting ground hog's day which is Mom and Dad's anniversary.  Plus, my sister and I both teach in Catholic Schools and Catholic School's Week (a busy week full of open houses, book fairs, and other 'extras') usually starts on the last Sunday in January and runs into February.  Yikes!  We didn't make cupcakes for Mom and Dad's anniversary.  They wanted to go out to dinner with us all, and since it was a school night, we didn't have time to do both.  However, I still have two sets of cupcake pictures to show.  We made the ducks for Maureen's birthday and they made the "string monsters" for mine.  (If you are wondering, "why cupcakes?" visit this post, where I do a little explaining about this tradition.)

We had some trouble getting the ducks to set up again after we'd dipped them in the icing and put the beaks and eyes on...we think they should have gone back in the freezer afterwards to help.  They looked kind of droopy.

Mom and Maureen used the fun silicone feet for the string monsters, but found that they were very top heavy.  If you look carefully you'll see that they are propped up on icing tips.  We always learn a lot about what we'd do differently next time.  They are very cute, however!