Cupcake adventure was a success! Perfect frosting!

Ok, I know it took me a few days to give you all an update on the cupcake frosting but this weekend was my son's 5th birthday so I was a bit busy.  I'm not even going to go into the whole fiasco we had at our local roller skating rink.  Let me just say that they will not be getting my return business or recommendations EVER!  The manager made my son cry on his birthday. NOT COOL DUDE!  However, besides that, the weekend was awesome!  My baby boy is growing up and this momma is feeling it hard. 
Ok, back to the cupcakes.  So I had this brainstorm about using SUPER SOFT cream cheese instead of trying to blend it right out of the frige.  Many of you who are avid bakers are probably laughing at me right now but as a person who has never taken a baking class in my life, it never really occurred to me before that my problem had always been trying to mix HARD cream cheese and get it to be light and fluffy.  Silly me I guess.  So, I tried my idea of letting it completely soften at room temperature the whole morning while I got my son ready for his party.   When it was finally soft enough I whipped it in my mixer with 6 cups of powdered sugar and 1 tsp of vanilla extract for about 5 minutes.  Starting on the lowest speed and working up to the fastest.  I let it whip for 3 minutes on the top speed alone.  Talk about perfect.  Even with the 6 cups of sugar its not too sweet.  I think because it is powdered.