Crazy hair day

Today is crazy hair day in Sarah's class! Each morning I attempt to make Sarah's hair look fancy. No matter my intentions, Sarah always makes her own crazy hair by the end of the day. So I can't wait to see how much crazier this look will be at the end of the day.

Sarah's first day of school

It is back to school time! Sarah was excited for the first day if school. She is in a new classroom this year. I have high hopes for a successful year, with many accomplishments for Sarah.

Course 2 complete!

I am now a graduate of course 2 in the cake class! Aren't you proud?! I now can make a basket weave something that I actually could do. I also can make almost very flower from your garden out of royal icing. Here is the "finale cake"!



I have now started course 3, the tricky class, fondant and tiered cakes. You just wait, one day you will see me with my own food network show :) Can you see it now... Once just a boring stay at home mom of 3, now cake phenomenon!

Where have I been? And whats coming up?

Vince is working late tonight, so I finally took the time to make the posts that I am so far behind on. We have been really busy. Abbi celebrated her 4th birthday at the end of July, the next day I had surgery and then we headed out of town for our long awaited week camping trip. Now I am getting ready for back to school. Sarah starts next week and Abbi starts pre-school in 2 weeks.

Abbi had her 4 year appointment last week. She is just a growin'. Her Dr. was amazed by how smart she is and called her exceptional! A new word for Abbi's enormous vocabulary.

Can anyone else believe that Michael is going to be 1 at the end of September? I guess I better get planning his party!

Vacation!

We had such a nice trip, camping in the mountains. This is the first year that Abbi has been independent enough, to enjoy camping. She was covered in dirt the whole trip. She loved going on a hiking "adventures" with daddy. And would try and con someone to take her exploring multiple times a day. I did not get to do much, since I just had surgery 2 days before we left. So I stayed in the trailer and made hair bows most of the time. But Jim was nice enough to take me moose looking each evening. While Vince would finish up with Michaels dinner. We saw 5 moose, and lots of deer. Michael was a great camper, well except for nap time. To much to do, who needs sleep! Sarah has had better camping trips, just to much going on. She was glad to go home, as I am sure Jim was glad for her to leave. He seemed to always be the one within striking distance. And got the brunt of her anger.
I really wish we could of stayed longer. I just love it there so much!

Sit back and enjoy the pictures, because there a lot of them!

Abby Cadabby party part 2

What lucky girl gets two parties?! Here are some pictures from the party with Vince's family. I did not even attempt the "big" cake, in case of disaster, so I stuck to just 2 layers. It was such a relief that it worked out with out any tears, or cake on the kitchen floor.

Janessa has some serious skills and she did all of the crepe paper decorations!
Everyone was so thoughtful and brought such wonderful gifts to celebrate Abbi's Birthday.

Abbi's Abby cadabby party take 1

OK so I will just put it out there, get it out in the open right off the bat. The cake was a disaster!! I had such high hopes for this beautiful cake, but NO, it was the lady bug cake revisited :( Now don't get me wrong, it started out hopeful. That cake was actually done. Decorated, just as planned, and then it happened. I opened the fridge to check on it, and to my horror, the cake was starting to lean. I pulled it out of the fridge and it just got worse. I watched as the bottom layer started to slip ever so slowly, the flowers and bows started to plop on the floor. In my horror, I start yelling for Vince, you ask what was he going to do to stop this disaster from happening? I don't know, but it sure did not make it any better when he came into the kitchen, gasps, and runs to grab the camera! Why not document the torture! So what ended up happening is, I baked all of the cakes the morning of the party, so the house was so hot, and it did not help that it was almost 100 degrees outside. So it was just to hot for my precious cakes and it melted right off of the bottom layer. So in my tears, I improvised. I was able to save the top 2 layers so it was not a total loss, but what a way to crush my dreams of the perfect cake!


Now on to the party. Abbi loved all of her gifts, and we are so thankful for everyone who came to help her celebrate the big 4!

Abbi's Birthday invites photo shoot

I thought I would share some of the pictures that I took for Abbi's Birthday invitations. There were so many cute ones, but 1 stood out as my perfect choice. The first one is the one that made the cut. But the others were a close second.