Leaving on a cruise

I won't be updating my blog anytime soon, my hubby and I leave this Saturday to go on a 5 day cruise to Mexico. We are very excited and will miss our kids....but mainly we're excited to be KID FREE for a few days!! We'll post some pictures of our vacation when we get back.
I'm also throwing a baby shower for my sister-in-law Stacie, it's 2 days after we get back from Mexico, I will also be posting something about that. There's the update, I'll post as soon as I can! Have a great week everyone!

More Cakes

I made 2 different cakes this weekend. I had a lot of fun making them, and I learn something new each time I make a cake. This time I learned to make sure you cut the cake EVENLY the 1st time-or else you have to go back and fix it later. This was my first time using fruit in a cake, so there are some minor things that make it more difficult verses using a frosting type filling. I also used a flavored buttercream this time, this was my first time flavoring a buttercream icing, and a new icing recipe too! I also had to take note to make sure the icing is as smooth as you can get it....before you lay the fondant over it, or else you have a bumpy fondant. Oh, well...the one I got to try tasted good, and overall looked alright, thanks Stacie for sharing your cake with us. I had fun and look forward to December when I have some more family birthdays to practice cakes for!

Kari's Cake: Chocolate cake, raspberry preserve filling, fresh raspberries, raspberry buttercream icing, and fondant. This one iced really smooth and was easy to lay the fondant over. I got a little carried away with the icing when I was decorating, it actually looked better without the little flower of icing on the fondant polk-a-dots. You live, you learn. I hope Kare's cake tasted good.

Stacie's Birthday Cake: White cake, raspberry preserve filling, fresh raspberries. and raspberry buttercream covered in fondant. YES, it's leaning....I fixed that later on, it turned out looking alright. Hope you liked your cake Stacie!!

Tornado Hailey

This is something I just didn't want to forget. Most of the time you want others to remember your house as "clean" or "spotless", but nope, not me. This is a picture of Hailey's room. This isn't just a one time mess either, this is how it looks EVERY night! My parents have given her a great nickname when talking about her, it's TORNADO HAILEY. It does look like a tornado hit this room! I've also heard Dan's parents refer to her once or twice as Hurricane Hailey -so we all agree! Yep, her favorite thing to do is pull things out, play with them for a minute...and then move on to the next item-as you can see, she has mastered this talent. Like I said, this is something I didn't want to forget, becuase when she's a little older....I'll expect her room to be clean before she ever leaves the house!

More Halloween

I told you there would be more Halloween to come. Here are some pictures of our fun weekend. We carved pumpkins, went to our ward Trunk-or-Treat, went Trick-or-Treating in the neighborhood, and had SO much fun dressing up in our costumes. Whitney was our little Witch, and Hailey dressed up as the beautiful Snow White. Hope you all had a happy Halloween!!!