A Time to Celebrate

My sister, Caitlyn is graduating this Saturday!! Yay!! It's so exciting! And of course with every graduation, there is a party. We had her party this past weekend at our house and I got to make the desserts :) I was pretty stoked. Just cuz I LOVE doing that kind of thing. 

Chocolate cupcake with chocolate ganache/raspberry mousse (I ran out filling, so some were different haha) with chocolate buttercream frosting. 

Red velvet cupcake with chocolate ganache/cream cheese frosting (again with the running out of filling...) and cream cheese frosting. 

Vanilla-lemon cupcake with raspberry mousse and vanilla buttercream frosting. 

 And last, but most definitely not least, chocolate espresso cake with chocolate espresso ganache/ raspberry mousse (...don't worry, I wrote down for next time to make more ganache...) and chocolate espresso buttercream frosting with chocolate covered coffee beans. 

Yum!

Caitlyn had a great turn out for her party and there were only a few cupcakes left over by the end of the night (I had made almost 150 not including the cake!) she is the best and I wish all the best to her. I'm so lucky to be her sister. <3 I love you Caitlyn!

xo. Morgan

A Visit to my Grandparents Home

Whoa! Hey! I know, Iknow, random appearance from me. But hey, we all got lives right?

My family was at my grandparents home for Mother's Day and I took some pictures with my sisters while we were there. And I decided to put them on my blog. Just because I'm cool like that! ;)

See the kitty in the picture above?? So cute!

I love my family!

xo. Morgan

Tis the Season...(well almost)

...for...

Pumpkin Spice Lattes

warm jackets

knee socks

hot chocolate

pumpkins seeds

apple pie

scarves

CereVe (because I discovered that the food industry gives you super dry hands that crack ridiculously easily...)

leaf piles

salted caramel cupcakes

apples dipped in salted caramel

...salted caramel... :)

warm sweaters

mittens

almost, but not quite listening to Christmas music

Pinteresting everything that can possibly be Pinterested (I know I said that wrong, but whatev's)

rediscovering blogging....(heh...my bad...)

bonfires

cornmazes

hot apple cider + donuts

rain

boots

coffee

umm...FALL!

xo. morgan.

Yes, yes. This is me. (And I've brung news of an exciting announcement!)

I'm guessing you are really surprised to see that there is a new post from me. Yah, I'm pretty surprised to. I just thought I should stop by and say, don't worry, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. I'm still here. Up to my ears in school, work, and life.

Do you ever feel like you over book your schedule? I never thought I did before. It seemed like I always had time. But now I catch myself volunteering to do things when I already have absolutely no time. It seemed to get better for a while when my hours at the bakery got reduced drastically. But then I got paired with this kid in one of my classes for a HUGE project that is due at the end of the semester. And by HUGE, I mean HUGE!!!! As in place of final exam huge. And I get stuck with this guy who does absolutely no work. We're halfway through the project and we've already had to turn in 2 reports out of a total 4 and he has done absolutely nothing to contribute. So after 6 weeks, I finally talked my teacher into letting me do my project by myself, and starting completely over to top it off. (Actually I'm pretty sure he felt bad for me because he even gave me extra time to turn in report 3...I like nice teachers :) ) So now I'm using all the free time that I had gotten off of work to work on the project while also working for my parents and fitting in some normal homework in between there somewhere also. Oh joy.

And now for a HUGE announcement. Ok wait... this needs a HUGE!!!! huge...

I'm am looking to move to Chicago within the near future. And within the near future is meaning somewhere within the time frame of 6 to 12 months. (Eeeeep!!!) I'm kinda super duper very much excited about this! I'm going to do my internship there (when I get it, of course) and then when I've graduated with my shiny Culinary Art degree, I'm going to permanently live there.

This all came about this last week. Life is crazy sometimes. God has an interesting plan for my life I've come to discover.

And even better, I was talking to one of my best friends about it, you know, just throwing things around a bit (I wasn't really sold on the idea yet) and when I told her she jokingly said something along the lines of, "Hey, I should go with you!" ...and then it kind of snowballed from there. And now it looks like we are both moving there, her in the medical administrative field and me in the culinary field.

I'm super happy right now. :D

Name Change!

Don't freak out!

You are seeing that right.

I just (randomly) changed the name of Morgan's Blog to Thoughts from a Challenged Writer. Not sure why exactly, except that I had wanted a name change for a while and this is what came up.

The blog is still going to pretty much be the same so don't worry about that. :)

Yay change!