Baby Bottom Cake

Here is a cake I did for a Baby Shower

The baby is rice crispy treats and fondant

Celebrate!!!

I suppose most who read my blog might not be as excited about Obama winning the election, and that's okay. We are excited enough for you. I finally have a sense of hope for my children and this beautiful country we live in. And that alone, without action, is a very poweful thing. Without hope we are nothing.

He gave an awesome victory speech, if you didn't stay up to hear it here's a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_cQZidZq4c

I am dissapointed that prop 8 passed, but it is reassuring to see that it was close(52% to 48%). Some day people will understand and accept everyone as equals, with absolutely, equal rights, none of this crap we're seeing now. Can't we see history repeating itself here? Slaves, womens rights, it's all the same in my book. These are human beings who deserve to have the same thing as everyone else. I'm sorry if that scares people, but, I would imagine, way back, the thought of slaves doing anything other than labor was scary and the idea of a woman voting and owning land was scary. And here we are today, no slaves and poweful woman all over the world. Not so scary anymore. I hope we'll look back on this and regret that 8 passed, maybe feel bad, that it took so long for gays to get this right to marry and have it recognized.

Trick-or-Treat

What a great day! Jonathan took 1/2 day off which is always nice. After I picked up Teresa we went to my dad's work. They REALLY get into it, it's fun. Teresa's friend Brandie tagged along with us. We went to school for a Trunk-or-Treat and then hooked up with Ty, Michelle, Ian, Sean and Serina and hit a little of the neighborhood. Jonathan took the girls out for a little more, just the 3 of them. Most of us were done walking around.

So here are a few pictures from our fabulous halloween.

ARRR!!!

Ahoy, Mate!

Ian and Nathan (Michelle has some cute pictures of their camo family on her blog)

Teresa and Brandie

This is my dad

And this is just a small part of his office. Each floor chooses a them. His was

Carn-evil. It was well done

Happy Halloween!

I'll post a picture of our pirate family later :)

Course 2 Cake

I like it, it came out cute. The basket weave isn't nearly as hard as it looked. It does require some practice to make it look awesome, but the basics aren't hard.I don't have a lot of skill in flower arranging, but that too will come with practice.




I found a new recipe for frosting too, it isn't nearly as greasy as
the other stuff I was using. I need to play with the consistency a bit.
I added water and it was still a little too stiff.

On to course 3 :) Fondant and tiered cakes.

(so much cake, must resist! This cake is dark chocolate fudge with mint frosting, I don't know if I can resist that)

Pumpkin Painting!

We went over to Ty and Michelle's and decorated pumpkins yesterday. It was a lot of fun. We went with paint so the little boys could do their own pumpkins. All of them came out great!

Teresa is starting to paint her itty bitty one

Nathan and Ian had some very colorful, abstract pumpkins :)

Michelle has a bling pumpkin, with glitter and sequins

I made the itty bitty royalty pumpkins, Teresa's is the ladybug spider

Ty made a bomb

And Jonathan made a zombie

Carving pumpkins is fun, but painting is so much easier. I think this might be the way we do it for awhile. Teresa has a small pumpkin she wants to carve, so we may do that after school this week.

Eat Cake!

No really!

This is a cake I made for the teachers at Teresa's school.

The dots and the stars are fondant


I have my last course 2 cake class on Monday. We use all the flowers
we've been making and a basket weave to decorate the cake, in class.
We'll see how that goes, I may or may not post a picture.
And then I get to do 2 halloween cakes for Friday. I'm excited!
I think I'll do a ghost and a mummy.
A lot of practice