Rich and Tiff's Birthday!

My mother-in-law Sandy asked me to make a cake for Rich and Tiff's birthday. There was really no way to include an over the hill cake and a girlie cake all in one so I made two. They turned out pretty good but of course the perfectionist in me will always find mistakes. The cakes were delicious and that's all that mattered in the end. I need to take more time and practice how to make fondant bows so my next one will come out looking better. And I also need to keep Beckett out of eating the bow pieces as well! I can't keep that kid out of anything. Hope you guys had a great birthday. Too many boys in the family...we need more girls!

Emma and Beckett watching Nemo

Tiffany's cake

Rich's Way over the Hill cake! The idea is that he is falling off the hill instead of just making his way over it.

Halloween Bowling Fest!

My parents, older sister Kerri and her daughter Alison came to visit us for Megan's Birthday and Halloween weekend. Since we had the trunk or treat Friday night the kids put on half of their costumes and we decided to go bowling for Halloween instead of trick or treating. We had a blast. Thanks for coming to visit we had so much fun even though Megan did whoop all of our butts at bowling!

So Far Behind! Halloween Pics

Finally getting around to posting Halloween...Sorry!
Meg was a pink butterfly

Ethan was Annakin Skywalker

Beckett was a Garden Gnome...absolutely hilarious

Halloween Cake!

Okay here is the story behind how and why I offered to make this monstrous cake...

Scott came home the other night from being out home teaching with John Neilson who happens to be the Ward Activities Chairman. Scott was telling me about what they were doing for the ward trunk or treat since I had already signed to take cornbread and cupcakes. He contined to tell me that they were going to do a cake for dessert and were ordering two sheet cakes from Costco. I had an instant heart attack and called John immediately. Pretty much scolded him for even thinking about ordering cakes from Costco. The best you would get is a cake that is as much icing as it is cake and probably air brushed with "Happy Halloween" on the top. Nothing special at all and can you say GROSS! So myself being a glutton for punishment on top of the cupcakes and cornbread and also needing to get cupcakes for Meg's b-day done the same night and pumpkin bread for her class party as well I begged him to let me take care of the cake for the ward trunk or treat. Little did I know it had to feed 100 people at the time but I was up for the challenge. I called a friend in the ward Natalie since she loves to do cakes and asked if she wanted to help. I drew up a sketch and I knew what I wanted it to look like but I had no idea that it would turn out as well as it did. I am so proud of what Natalie and I put together in about three hours. Amazing! So the cake inside is white cake two colored orange and two colored black with white buttercream in between. I hope it looks really cool when it's cut into. The icing on top is chocolate buttercream covered in crushed oreo cookies. Natalie made rocks and the Happy Halloween letters out of gum paste. The tombstones are Milano cookies dipped in white chocolate and then RIP written in black. The ghosts are white lollipops and we just filled in the eyes and mouth with black as well. The fence is made of white lollipop sticks painted with chocolate. And then last but not least the haunted house is a gingerbread kit that was premade. I cannot even imainge making that from scratch! So there is it our wonderful Halloween cake that we hope with be the center of attention at the trunk or treat. Happy Halloween to all!!