It's my Birthday! Cake for you! Guest post

Hey all! Since today is my birthday I got you all a little something! Marina from Energizer Bunnies Mommy Reports Is here today to share a yummy recipe! Marina is an awesome member of BloggerPR with me and I'm so looking forward to trying this cake!

I've tried several carrot cakes but this has to be my favorite and Hubs favorite too. I halved the recipe as I didn't know how yummy the final outcome would be. The next time round I'm going to make sure I stick to the original quantities. We don't have any cake left even though it was only baked 2 nights ago!   Oh yes, those pecans definitely add richness to every moist, delicious bite! .

Delicious Carrot Pecan Cake

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Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: Tammy Elliott-All Recipes

Prep time: 30 mins

Cook time: 60 mins

Total time: 1 hour 30 mins

Serves: 18

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
• 2 cups white sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 3 cups grated carrots
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
2. In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
4. To Make Frosting: In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake.

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Technical issues!

I'm having Technical issues with my linky tools subscription right now. I'm too tired to deal with it tonight, so I will try to get to it this week. Thank you to everyone who joined the hop this week, it won't let me see your submissions but I hope when I get it fixed I can see them. I'm skipping the getting crafty weekend hop this week because of these issues and because I just have way too much going on this week. I finally got my sewing Machine up and running again so I will be finally getting some over due prizes finished and sent out as well as some stuff for the girls, presents for my niece and nephew and some items for my etsy store. I'm going to focus on getting sewing done this week, so while I will hopefully have my daily blog challenge posts up on time, I probably won't have much else up this week. Friday is my birthday and then next monday starts the Summer Fun With Kids Series. So Make sure you are signed up to receive updates! You don't want to miss all the great things that my guests have in store for you!

Nine Months... Wow!

Well Tabitha has been out as long as she was in (ba dum ching)!
I still can't get over how much she has changed in such a short period of time. She took her first step on December 30th at my mom's house, It was awesome that my mom got to see it, since she lives so far away she misses a lot of tabitha's firsts
Tabitha's nine month birthday was pretty chill, she and I spent the day playing with her new toys she got for christmas. And when Morgen came home it was time for daddy jungle gym.

Its seems like only yesterday she was this small:
Time sure flies, I'm already planing her 1st birthday party! wow, I'm so going to miss this time. I really don't understand when I hear other moms wanting to rush through this stage and get on to the walking and talking. I miss my little lump. =)

She's here!

Our little angel Tabitha Ruth Peschke was born on April 6 at 7:20 pm. the short story is that, my water broke on sunday night around 9pm, we called l&D and they said to take a shower and get something to eat then come in, so we got there around 11:30, after a few tests they decided that yes in fact my water did break, (funny that the clear goopy stuff draining out of me didn't clue them in they had look at it under a microscope). They said they were going to wait and see if my contractions got stronger because they were all over the place and i could barely feel them. so by the next morning at 9 am still nothing so they gave me pitocin. that stuff sucks, if its ever offered to you and you don't need it don't take it. after being in horribly painful labor from 9am to 4pm (with no food by the way, i was starving) i was still only dilated to 4. they finally talked me into an epidural, which i really had been against. at 6 they said if i wasn't dilated to 5 in an hour they were going to need to do a c section because they needed to get her out by 24 hrs after my water broke. an hour later and i was still at 4, they still couldn't feel the baby's head and i was exhausted. they upped my epidural gave me a bunch of other drugs for the pain and wheeled me in to the or. Tabitha was born at 7:20pm and Morgen went with her to the nursery as they stitched me up. after being in recovery for 1 1/2 hrs they finally brought me Tabitha (after an hour of me asking, "when can i see m y baby, when is my baby coming?", and apparently Morgen was doing the same thing in the nursery asking "when can we take her to Teresa, she needs to see her mommy")
they brought her in and we tried to breast feed and it worked a little. they took us to our room and we worked on some more breast feeding and basically spent the night getting to know each other. we spent the next 2 1/2 days in the hospital and came home on Thursday after noon. we have so much more to share but no time right now. for now enjoy some pictures.
i'll leave you with some pictures and video of our miracle!