Crockpot Cake

It is WAY TOO HOT here, and our dinosaur A/C unit (original from when the house was built in the mid 70's) has been using WAY too much electricity. We went out and bought a couple of window units yesterday and you can see a huge difference just buy looking at how fast the meter is spinning. YAY.
I still want to cut down on oven use though, so I've been thinking about other ways to bake and cook things that I'd normally use the oven for. I'll be happy to have the oven on all day come winter, but for now it's just dreadful.
http://www.bigoven.com/157683-Master-CrockPot-Cake-Mix-recipe.html
I plan on making this recipe tonight or tomorrow, maybe I'll take some pictures and post our reviews. I hope it turns out well, it will be wonderful to have the crock pot option for baking.

The kids have been playing Little Big Planet a lot the past couple of weeks, and they've sucked me into it as well. We just found out that #2 will be released (hopefully, seems like the games we want are always delayed) in November- just in time for Christmas. We watched a trailer for it on the PS network, and it really looks like it will be even more fun than the first one. I'm working on creating my first game on my moon, but it is a slooooow process. :-) The kids are great coaches when mom gets stuck with something (even if she wants to figure it out for herself).

We are planning a vacation trip to Universal Studios Islands of Adventure next year, the kids are pretty excited about that. I'm wondering if I should go ahead and try to add Disney World too (we've never been to Disney World or Disney Land). The reason we're doing Universal is the Harry Potter section, the kids are huge Harry Potter fans. I have plans to take Oldest to see the next movie on opening night (midnight showing)- she really wants the experience of the fan/crowd excitement- hope there are enough fans here to make it really fun for her.

Okay, I'm off to work on dinner- TTFN.