The Happenings of Us

Ok. I know it has been a while since I updated so here is some updates.

A couple weeks ago we went to my cousin's blessing. This is Eden.

Yes, her cheeks really are that chubby, and yes she is stinkin' adorable!!! It was a great day full of family, food and currently the worlds cutest baby.I also made the cake for the blessing. My aunt Joni (Eden's mom) wanted buttercream and something to match Edie's dress. This is what I came up with.
I haven't done much outdoors this winter and since it was sunny a couple weeks ago, I wanted to take advantage of it, so we went snowshoeing.
We also wanted to try out an MRE that we had bought. So we set up a little camp complete with a cooking platform and padded chairs and heated our MRE and some hot chocolate and rested. This is my kind of snowshoeing!
Two words: Stud Muffin!

Cakes, cakes and more cakes

Sorry, I know pretty much all my posts lately have been about cakes. But that is pretty much the only thing going on in our lives right now. I'm still working. Anthony is still working and going to school. Nothing to exciting happening.

So here are a couple more cakes i've done recently.

This first one was my dad's birthday cake. Quick sidenote: my dad is awesome!!! Not only does he have a great sense of humor and an amazing love for his wife and children, but he can build ANYTHING!!! I think my sister said it best when she said "My dad can beat up your dad...and build his own canoe". Yes, my dad is currently building his own redwood canoe.

This is my dad's canoe.

This is my dad's canoe cake. Not my best work, but it sure was tasty. Chocolate cake and peanut butter frosting. mmmmm....

So this next cake has by far been my biggest cake that i've made. Which translates into the biggest headache a cake has caused. This cake was 16 inches square. It started off a pain in my side, but by the end I was quite pleased with it.

I had my second PAID cake job this past weekend. One of the head honchos at work liked the cakes that I had done so much that he wanted me to make a cake for his family birthday party. They have four people with birthdays in March and he wanted one cake for all four people. One was a runner, one liked hockey, one liked golf, and one was an Oregon State Ducks fan. That was pretty much all he gave me. This is what I came up with:
The only thing on this cake that was not made out of fondant or gumpaste was the stick of the golf flag.
I made a pattern for these shoes based on the booties pattern I found for the baby shower cake. What else do you do for a runner?
This hockey goal was kind of a pain, but I think this was my favorite section of the cake.
I am planning on getting a business set up and am in the process of getting business cards and a website set up. Sometimes the cakes can be frustrating, but by the end when they get done and they turn out well, it it very rewarding.

Week O' Cakes

This week has been full of cakes. In the past 6 days I have made two cakes and am making one more today.

Over a month ago my friend at work asked me to make a cake for a baby shower for our HR manager who is currently 8 months pregnant. She found this picture online and asked me to make it. I think it turned out pretty well and everyone seemed quite impressed.

I think one of my favorite parts of this cake was the topper. The picture we found had these little booties on top and I looked for weeks trying to find some that matched but to no avail. So finally I decided I could probably make them. Sure enough, I found a pattern on line and made the booties my self out of fondant.
I also had my first paid job this week. My boss's boyfriend turned 50 on Friday and she was planning a surprise party for him. She decided that all he was getting this year was friends and food so she liked the idea of the cake being his "present".
Everyone at work was quite amazed and I think I got the word out to enough people that hopefully I will get a little side business going out of all this.

I still have one more to make today so stay tuned...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANTHONY!

Tomorrow is Anthony's 28th birthday, so yesterday we had a little family birthday party at our place. 

For the past couple of weeks I have been asking Anthony what kind of cake he wanted. I suggested a Transfomers cake. When the Transformers movie came out a couple years ago he was a big fan. He loved Transformers as a kid and not much has changed. So this is what I came up with for his cake:

There were a couple parts that didn't turn out quite right, but overall I was quite pleased with how it turned out.
Here is my Happy Handsome Hubby with his Totally Tricked-out Torte!

He made a haul! I guess this is what happens when we don't do much for Christmas. I kind of slacked off on his birthday last year, so I was trying to make up for it this year...I think I succeeded.

Here he is with all his spoils! His mom is making him a Utah Utes fleece blanket. I got him cliff bars, a tie, slippers, a REI gift card, and last but not least a new external hard drive! So exciting!!!

I am so glad to have such a great man in my life. Shortly after we got engaged I had a lesson in relief society on the priesthood. At that point it just hit me that I was marrying a man that was a worthy priesthood holder. I am so very grateful for that. The past two years that I have known him have definately been a roller coaster, but overall they have been some of the most wonderful two years I have had. Not only is he EXTREMELY good looking, he is very caring, helpful, sweet and thoughtful. He has been very supportive of my hobbies and ideas and is even willing to go get me Taco Time, just cause I want it. Yeah, i'm spoiled! Hun, I wubba you!!!

More cakes

Here are a couple of cakes that I have done. The first one was my final project for my class. It was a busy week, I had lots to do, and I was sick. Because of this I didn't really have time to do what I wanted. So this is what I came up with.

This was for my friends, Paul and Sandy's, little boy. I can't believe baby Erik is already one!!! This didn't turn out quite like I had planned, but I think it turned out okay. And it sure did taste good!!!

Happy Halloween!

Last year we didn't do anything for Halloween, so I decided that this year I wanted to do SOMETHING festive. I think the scariest happening in our lives last year was Anthony walking around the house nude! What's more festive than carving pumpkins? So for our family home evening tonight we got down and dirty with some gourds. Here are the fruits of our labors!

My handsome hubby cutting his punkin with our newly purchased electric pumpkin carver. He quickly decided that our basic kitchen knives were not suitable for this task and we had to make a special trip just for this. They didn't have the basic pumpkin carver so we had to go for the deluxe version!

Our final pumpkins. If you look closely you can see the hair that I carved on mine.

This was my project for my class two weeks ago. I was quite happy with the way it turned out. I took it to work and everyone was quite impressed. This was a chocolate cake with a peanut butter frosting filling. VERY TASTY!!!

Cakes

So about three months ago I started taking the Wilton cake decorating classes. Eventually I think I would like to be able to sell wedding cakes out of my home. I still need a lot of practice, but maybe eventually i'll get there. So if you ever need a cake for any occasion, let me know. Here are a few things that I have done.

This was one of my first cakes. Can you tell? I can!

This was for my cousin Radley's 3rd birthday. The border isn't as straight as I would want it, but I was quite proud with the Superman logo.

We had to come up with our own cake design for the end of one of the classes. I copies this off some pictures i've seen. I think it turned out pretty good.