A BUSY CAKE WEEK

The week before Halloween was a busy baking week. I made a cake for my S-I-L Mandie. It was her birthday and she asked for a cake that I had already made before...a repeat cake I guess. I totally forgot to take pictures, but here's the one I made for Dan's b-day...and I made the same one for Mandie.A PB&J cake...and that's exactly what it tasted like...only sweeter. White cake as bread, PB buttercream and then I did Strawberry preserves for Mandie.

Another cake I did was for a boy in my ward. I'm friends with his mom and I offered to make him his B-day cake. Any chance I get to try something new is a good opportunity for practice. It was chocolate cake with caramel buttercream. Covered in fondant and decorated with little footballs made of fondant.

My mom is the Stake Primary president. They were having a leadership meeting and needed some sweets, so I made some cupcakes. I made chocolate cupcakes w/ PB buttercream, and also carrot cake cupcakes w/ a cream cheese buttercream. I uses some brown fondant to cut out leaves for the topper. I wanted the leaves to look more "fall" like, so I painted them with some bronze luster dust-they turned out really cute. I guess they were a hit. Thank goodness. It's always nice to hear that someone likes your work. Dan wanted some for his hometeaching families and also for his team at work. I made 74 cupcakes!!. Busy...busy...busy. I loved making and creating all of these things. My next project is mini cupcakes for Lizzie's (my sister-in-law) bridal shower. Nothing fancy, they're too little to decorate all fancy-it would overdue it. Some sprinkles, or colored sugar and a nice swirl of frosting will look just great! Can't wait!

Cupcakes for Dans work

Fondant Fall leaves

Cupcakes

Displayed on Table

Halloween 2009

We had a Happy Halloween this year. Lots of candy, fun costumes, pumpkins, and even a Halloween-themed meal! There are tons of pictures below of our great holiday-I LOVE HALLOWEEN!

CARVING PUMPKINS

HALLOWEEN MEAL: hOT DOGS

BREADSTICKS

WRAPPED UP & BAKED

MUMMY DOGS!!

MY 3 KIDDOS

WHITNEY AS DOROTHY

NICE "RED"SLIPPERS HUH?

OUR FRIENDS JAYMIE & JESSE ALWAYS HAVE FABULOUS COSTUMES!

DAN & PARKER

THE WITCH OF THE HOUSE

THE ONLY TIME HE'S EVER BEEN "SKIN & BONES"

SCOOBY-DOO

DOROTHY AND A BLUE PRINCESS

SO CUTE!

Parker's 3 month pictures

There are so many cute pictures to choose from-they all turned out so cute! Thanks to Annaka for doing such a great job-thanks! We are so excited to share Parker's 3 month old pictures....there are a lot of them.....enjoy!

WE LOVE YOU PARKER!

October 21st 2009

I didn't even know what to call this post. Things have been busy around here as usual, but more like...I have to get all of these done around my house-busy. My poor kids haven't left the house other than to go for a walk w/ grandpa. I have accomplished quite a bit though-and feel good that I FINALLY got some of those things done. I went through all the girls clothes and pulled out all that didn't fit them. I then bagged the items, and then labeled the bags, and then put them away. I moved on to their shoes-same thing. Then I started with Parker's stuff and did the same thing too. It took me forever to get it all done-but it's done! I also went through the other bagged items in the closet and pulled out all the "winter" 2T clothes for whitney to wear soon. We are going up to Utah for a wedding in a few weeks, and I know we're all going to freeze! Here's hoping I can find some WARM clothes that actually fit me! I've got to get Hailey a few shirts to get her by while we're up there too. Usually the kids get some warmer clothes for X-mas....because it's really not too cold before then here in Az. Let's just say it's still in the mid-80's all week-so we're still wearing capri's and short-sleeves! I haven't taken any fun pictures lately either. Just forgot to. I'll have to take some Halloween one's here shortly-so I'll get around to it. Just moving along, looking forward to Halloween and all the fun festivities. Also looking forward to visiting family in Utah, it will be fun to get away for a minute. Many of them haven't seen Parker yet-so I'm really excited to show him off. That's about it here. I know this post was a little boring-no pictures-nothing, sorry....but at least I'll have something to look back on and read about years down the road. I guess that's all that matters.

Princess's Don't......

The kids and I were hanging out at my parents house playing dress-up. Hailey was dressed as a beautiful princess. She was dancing around and while she was dancing I thought I heard a little noise come out of her. I said, "Hailey...did you toot?" Hailey stopped dancing and turned around to face me. She said, "Mom, I'm a princess and princess's DON'T toot!" We all got a good laugh out of this. Apparently princess's don't toot.

I must be a Queen then.

My ewwwwwww story

Here's my story of the week.

I threw in a load of Parker's laundry the other night-forgot to switch them to the dryer...so that's the first thing I did when I got up that next morning. I was tossing the clothes from the washer to the dryer and noticed that they didn't smell clean. Parker's only 3 months old, so we still have the occasional diaper leak....so yes, his clothes get pee on them. That's what the clothes smelled like....pee. Maybe I forgot to put soap in? I DID run them...right? I stood there trying to figure out why they weren't clean. That's when I saw it. The over-sized, over-absorbed, wet, USED diaper. How the heck did that get in there?! Ewwww....gross! No wonder all the clothes smelled like pee. Yuck! Luckily it was only a WET diaper and nothing beyond that. I took the diaper out and re-washed all of Parker's clothes. They smelled clean when they came out this time.

My question to all of you: Has anyone ever washed a diaper? What DUMB thing have you done that have given you an "Ewwww Story". Let me know, I'm curious to find out-entertain me!

So that's my story of the week.