if i never see another cupcake...

my church "job" is to help oversee the youth of our area.

last night we had a standards event that focused on internet safety and time spent online and in "virtual" activities.

the theme for the evening was Get Real (or things aren't always as they may seem).

we had an amazing guest speaker from The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

she works locally and was referred to me by our school social worker.

she did a fantastic job and was totally captivating to both adults/parents and the youth. 

we also had a family share their knowledge on using the internet for good (rather than evil, i suppose)

and then our last presenter was left with about 12 minutes to present an hours worth of information.

he was a great sport though, and left us with some humor and great nuggets of wisdom.

 to go along with our theme, my friend, charlene, and i made these cupcakes.

about 250 in all.

we made caution signs and signs that said "proceed with caution" and "objects may not be as they appear" to be set around the cupcake display.

the cupcake ideas came from Hello Cupcake and What's New Cupcake.

saturday night at 10pm i ran out of frosting but still had about 25 cupcakes to finish.

i said forget it.

i had been decorating cupcakes for about 6 hours!

the reaction from the kids and their parents was worth every chopped carrot (starburst), every carefully placed corn kernel (jelly belly) and every slightly melted pat of butter (banana laffy taffy) on the mashed potatoes.

ryan made a fantastic cupcake stand that, when finished, resembled the starship enterprise from star trek!

AND of course ryan and the girls helped decorate til the bitter end. :)