This Week's Menu

One of the missionaries altered our weekly menu for us. He's from North Carolina.

Castlewood Canyon Revisited

We went back to Castlewood Canyon with some friends from our ward and some friends not from our ward. James took some good pictures. It was a beautiful day!

Wilton Course 2

Here are some pictures from Wilton Course 2. We did a lot of different royal icing flowers ahead of time and then assembled the cake with a basket weave on the side and decorated it with the flowers. I think royal icing flowers are much easier than buttercream flowers and they usually turn out better.

I made some cupcakes for my work Luau with the extra flowers I had. Pineapple cake mix with vanilla buttercream and coconut. Pina colada? The pineapple wasn't as prominent as I was hoping, but they still looked beautiful.

I have really loved taking cake decorating classes. It is one of the most fun things I have ever done! I will probably do the fondant course after the summer is over. Its a busy summer.

What's your favorite song right now?

There is a game we used to play in college, called, "What's your favorite song right now?" (Hopefully some of the readers remember this game because it was pretty awesome.) James and I play it occasionally. Some of my most recent favorite songs, with (1) being most recent and (3) being less recent, are:

(1) Airplanes-B.O.B. featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore

(2) Hey, Soul Sister-Train

(3) Bulletproof-La Roux

What's your favorite song right now?

The Cakes (Wilton Course 1)

I have been taking a Wilton cake decorating class at Michael's (the most fun thing I have ever done). Here are some pictures.

This one says "BABIES!" because I took it to work. There were 6 or 7 ladies at my work who were or still are pregnant (some have delivered since then).

These cupcakes were for my friend Karla who moved to Chile.

These cupcakes were practice for lots of different little things.

This was the finale cake. The icing has tons of crumbs in it and the roses are jaggedy looking because my icing was too stiff, but at the same time I kind of like the way they look. Overall I was glad with the way it turned out.

Some Things I Been Making

Here are some cards I've made recently.

Soon to follow: my first attempts at cake decorating...

Who you gonna call?

We got a backpack vacuum. It is great for doing the stairs, plus the cord is long enough that I can do the whole condo without unplugging. It is SO much better than our old vacuum, which would suck things up and kick it back on my feet. It is powerful and easy to clean and actually comfortable to wear. And as an added bonus, it looks cool. Cooper, however, does not like the new vacuum and tries to bite the wand whenever we pause.