The Pink Cake!

Ok so this November, I decided to throw a double baby shower for two of my friends... Mandy and Dianna... they were both expecting their third baby and they were both expecting girls...they were also due around the same time... So why not? right?

I got everything together and asked a few friends and neighbors to help contribute to the food and decorations! I was going to bring the center piece!! The cake! It took me three whole days of searching online for the right design... if finally found it, but the cake online was for a baby shower for a little boy... so I spent another day searching for the right colors of pink for our baby shower! It was really fun to do...

Once I decided on a design, I called my friend Betsey to help me with the cake. I was going to pay her to do it all, because she makes cakes on the side, and then I thought I should try and do it myself... with her help!

I stared to bake the cakes. The first one came out OK, but for the second layer I had to bake 3 cakes just to get it right.. the others all crumbled to pieces and we needed something sturdy for the fondant to sit on!

Then Betsey came over and it took us about a hour and a half to turn white fondant to dark brown... it was hard.. my hands hurt just thinking about all the kneading we did to get it right... so around midnight we were finally done with the cake! ... what do you think?


I don't think I can do this for a living.. it was fun but alot of hard work!

all the goodies!

Meow, Meow, Meow... our mittens we have lost!


So this year the kids were not sure what they wanted to be for Halloween. They had out grown last year's costumes and were searching for a new one. The girls wanted to be princesses, I couldn't find the right costumes for them, you know they ones with the thicker fabric? Well and Jamie was going to be Belle and Lizzy was going to be Jasmine... Oh well... As for little Jared.. He wanted to be a lion... but we didn't want to pay $20 for the costume...

So, I took a costume I bought last year for myself and never wore because it didn't fit right.. and ripped it in half... each half for the girls. I turned the top half into a dress for Jamie and the bottom half into a skirt for Liz... of course I wasn't going to sew anything so I used safety pins to hold everything together! I worked like a charm.

Then off to walmart we went to find kitty ears... and we did for $5 each... we got two as I already had a set from last year. We got Little Jared to wear the bow but he didn't want to wear the ears... so I drew cat stripes (tiger stripes) all over his face.

Then we had the 3 little kitten who lost their mittens!

Mrs. Spendlove's Kindergarten class...

Halloween Party!

This year Jamie's Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Spendlove, thought that she would throw her class a Halloween Party this year! It was alot of fun!

making new friends...

Jamie and her friend Sarayla.

Field Trip with the Kindergartners...

I volunteered to help out with Jamie's kindergarten class this year. I thought it would be great to help out at the pumpkin patch this year. Of course I had to take Jared along with me ... I knew he would love it. It was the best weather for picking pumpkins and Jamie had a great time searching for the best pumpkin! Cant wait for next year to see all these great pumpkins again!

apple crisp!!!!!

the Larsen kids

Dinner with the Larsen Family...

We get together with the Larsen Family about once a year to have dinner and see all the kids. Matthew Larsen served his mission with Jared, I think at one point they were companions during the end of Jared's mission! It is cool to see them and hang out, but we definitely have to do this more then once a year!