BIRTHDAY CAKES

So, just this last year i aquired a really neat, easy to make, birthday cake idea book for kids. As many of you know I am not a real crafty type of person but this book had some cute ideas and I love to make desserts so I ended up discovering a new hobby that I really enjoy. Now mind you I am no baker and all my cakes come from box mixes, but the decorating and such is really what i enjoy. So anyway, These are a few of my cakes . .. (please keep in mind i am very much an amateur and only do this for people whom I know will still love me no matter how they turn out.) :) btw thanks to all those who've let me use their kids birthday cakes as my guinee pigs.


This is my first "creative" cake. I made it for my daughters first birthday. (its a flower in case you couldn't tell) very simple; two round cakes layered, and a bunch of cupcakes placed strategically around as petals.


This was next, its not a very good picture but its a choo choo train cake for my nephew who LOVES trains. once again two round cakes, side by side, with sprinkles for grass, cookie crumbs for dirt and frosting tracks.



This is Hay-babe's cake. my niece looked through my book and picked a cake as a dress with a doll in the middle. The receipe only called for one bundt cake, but I quickly realized that wouldn't cut it and used two cakes and marshmallows to fill in the top. This was my first doll cake and I like to think they did get better with time. . . .


Syd and Breq liked hay-babe's doll cake so much they both wanted one: This is Syd's Ariel wedding dress cake, and probably one of my favorites; we used 3 cakes this time, cutting the top a smaller circle and made the dress bell. it was lots of fun!


This is the only picture I got of Breq's Birthday Cinderella cake. my mom and dad had to take the cake to the party while I took Lance to the doc and since it was a very hot day the cake had melted and fallen a bit before we got there. (sorry breqy) :(



Hazy's is my most recent cake. Shay found this really cute present cake, but My computer wouldn't bring up the picture and I only had the description. so this is my own rendition of a "gift" cake. one is a double layer sguare cake and the other is a bread pan cake. The ribbons and bows are those yogos rollers and the dots are yogos as well, which seemed to be a big hit with the 7 and under crowd we had!
So if any of you are wondering, this is what I do with my spare time!

hApPy BiRtHdAy LaNcE

Today my sweet husband turns 25 Yes that's right he's half way to 50 now! So I thought I would do a post to honor my most wonderful, handsome and intelligent husband!

I have LOVED lance since we first met. He made me want to date him and only him forever and ever. He is wonderful. He grew up in West Haven and graduated from Fremont High. He went on a mish to Michigan, and fell madly in love with his perfect companion (me) in Sept 04.

He has been a wonderful husband, father and provider. If there is one thing Lance does its work. He has always had at least 2 jobs since we've been married and though I miss the time with him I am so grateful that he is willing to make such sacrifices for his family. My family often jokes with him that its hard to find a place that Lance hasn't worked.

Besides his jobs Lance is also our family handy man I swear he can fix just about anything, even though he is way too modest with how much he knows, he is always willing to help others. He work on others homes, cars, yards and anything else that needs it, and always without complaint.

So if working 2 jobs fixing our home and helping out whenever needed isn't enough . . . Lance is also going to college. He loves learning even though sometimes he says he doesn't like school ;)

I cannot even begin to convey what a great person my lance is. I take him for granted way too much. But he has always loved me, and I know he always will. Especially since he has supported me through the bear pills, awful hormones and mood swings. He is a great dad and Sami LOves him. Infact I am hard pressed to think of anyone that knows him and doesn't love him!

Well, I hope You have a Wonderful Birthday Babe! I LOVE YOU!!

SHOES PLEASE

If you know my little babe very well then you know she has what some have called an "obsession" with shoes. big shoes, little shoes, girl shoes, boy shoes, mommy's, daddy's, aunt's, uncle's, cousins, grandma's, grandpa's, etc. She LOVES shoes. She's had this obsession since before she could walk, and since she could walk she's had an obsession with wearing all these shoes. my daughter has a very short attention span but if you put her on the floor with 10 pairs of shoes she will try them on and off and walk around in them for hours! Her most favorite pair of shoes are her mommy's high heels and if you know me you know when I say high heels I mean really HIGH heels. Now I don't want to brag or anything but I do believe my daughter is the only almost 2 year old that can walk gracefully in 5 inch heels and has been able to since shortly after learning to walk. Anyhow, I was just watching her as she made me take off the heels i had been wearing today to work so that she could strut around the kitchen in them and thought , I should really take a picture of that and post it on my blog. But of course I wasn't fast enough getting my camera so here are just a few pictures I do have of Sami and her Shoes . . .

This is Sami sporting pink rain boots 3 sizes too big (hand-me-downs from aunt Mistie), her daddy's hat and not much else

Here Sami "borrowed" these shoes from auntie Tracey when she happened to remove them after a shower we threw for a friend

These gems Sami found while digging through my closet one day and she wore them for 24hrs straight

Her poor daddy keeps telling himself this is a phase that will pass (not likely);) he insists that since she is obsessed now by the time she's 12 she'll be bored with all shoes . . . especially the expensive ones! Good luck with that one babe . . . I mean who am I to stiffle her creativity by not buying her lots of different shoes? :)

cAmPiNg . . .

We just got back Sunday from our annual labor day weekend with my cousins. It was fun! We went up to the Uintahs and stayed at Washington Lake Campground in one of the big group sites. We fished, canoed, hiked and had a blast! The little ones had lots of fun together, the road we were off of wasn't that busy so it was perfect for them to all ride bikes. The first night we got there after dark so we ended up putting our tents up on the asphault next to the trailers. It worked out ok, but after being in that close a proximity to everyone Lance and I decided to find a place in the dirt to park our tent ;) Good thing too because the second night it rained a lot and our tent was one of the only ones to not take on water. (see kyle you should've listened to your wife and moved your tent!) We did end up coming home earlier than planned because of the weather so that was a bummer, but a necessary bummer (I think it actually snowed up there after we left). My sister and brother-in-law came and brought their kids up for a night before they left us with them and went on a cruise! Thats right . . . they left us up in the cold stormy mountains to go on a cruise!! THE NERVE :) just kidding Mist. The girls had a blast and still are having one. We all hope you have lots of fun!!

Anyway, of course once we got up camping I realized that my camera's battery was dead and I only had a camcorder so I would love to post some pictures of all the fun the kids had but I would have to settle for a video, and as of yet do not know how to do that with my camcorder. :(