Saturday, November 29, 2008

Last cake decorating class!!

This last Tuesday was my last cake decorating class for Course 2. I'm so very glad it's over. Don't get me wrong I loved taking the classes and wish i could take course 3 right now, but I'm so tired and don't have the energy i need to put into these classes right now. I guess that has something to do with being 33 weeks pregnant! I was very much debating to take the Course 3 in December and do it all before the baby comes, but decided there is just too much going on in December. Maybe in April I'll continue them again. Well here are some pictures of my final cake!




Friday, November 14, 2008

Oh the Joys!!

Who ever said being pregnant is "oh so much fun" I think is insane. (Yep this is me complaining again) The only fun thing is feeling the baby kick and move and that's not always so fun when it hurts. My thing right now is the oh so much fun back pain, which I'm either getting used to or it's not as bad anymore and the lovely braxton hicks contractions! I thought they said these "practice" contractions weren't supposed to hurt, but mine are half and half. Sometimes they just feel like my belly is tightening for a couple of seconds (normal) and the other time it's more painful and it lasts for a couple of minutes. The pain will subside after a like 20 to 30 seconds, but my stomach still feels tight for minutes afterward and i know when those ones are completely done cuz then the maybe freaks out and starts moving all over the place! I guess the only reason I'm complaining is cuz it woke me up last night around 12:30 with a more painful one and then i don't know if i had smaller ones or not cuz i couldn't get comfortable and really fall asleep for like 2 hours. In and out of sleep always having to roll over to find a comfortable spot! (What annoys me more is one of my co-workers who I'm not even telling this too leans over and is all oh that's nothing to worry about in my pregnancy's yadda yadda yadda) I'm not concerned i was just complaining! I know it's totally normal. Anyway i've made this long enough!
Oh one more thing has anyone ever had jaw pain during pregnancy. My jaw all the sudden on Tuesday locked up on one side and hurts to open it too wide. Kind of like lock jaw. It's getting better and it doesn't hurt unless i try to open it too wide, but still it's annoying!

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Mosaic about Me

Ok so i saw this on my cousins blog and thought it was cute. It's a mosaic all about me.
Here is what you do!
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search or just google it.
b. Using only the first page of search results, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into the mosaic maker. Choose 3 columns with 4 rows. The mosaic maker is on this web address: http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name -


Here is Mine!

The Nursery

My baby's Nursery is finally under way. A couple of weeks ago we enlisted my always helpful brother in law Ben to move our guest bed out of the baby's room along with the other furniture that was in there into other rooms. Then it stayed that way! Jake didn't want me to put anything in there until he put in a ceiling fan. Well he finally installed the ceiling fan (which he says is a major pain. He says someone that is 6'5 should not be up in that attic) and well the remote for the ceiling fan is also the same frequency as the one in our living room so they turn each other on and off. He now has to change one of them (he's not too happy). Anyway he did this while i was at work yesterday and when i came home i saw that he also put together the crib! YEAH! Now there is something for the baby in the baby's room. I was so excited and got out the bedding and started putting that on. Jake says that the walls are too white and wants to paint now (which is what i wanted in the first place, but he didn't want too so i wasn't going to push him) So now I'm excited about painting the room too. Now all we need is the glider, which I'll be re-covering the day after thanksgiving at the mom's house (since it was my sisters and it doesn't match my nursery....thanks Sarah for the free glider) and then Jake still needs to build the changing table and dresser that will match the crib. (He's first going to re-do his bathroom so I'll have to wait till December for that) It just seems that time has flown by. I was going to have this all done so long ago, but time has just gotten away from me!! (I'll post a picture when it's all done!)

Poor Puppy

My poor little puppy dog gets cold and since they destoryed their bed this is what she does when it's too cold for her!


You can just see her little head poking out!

Cake Decorating

So since I showed a not so good cake on here i thought I'd show some cakes that I'm more proud of. The first is one that i made for my cake decorating class. The second is a cake i made for one of the Young Women's birthdays at church!


If you look close you'll see that his feet had fallen off and i had to prop them up! You can't tell, but i ended up just doing the front of this cake. (that's all i had time for in class) I brought it home and Jake kept asking when he could destroy it (we weren't going to eat it because i didn't have enough eggs when making it so i improvised since it was for my class) As soon as i took a picture the poor bear was then demolished! I should have taken a picture of that!


The flowers and the trees are made out of royal icing. The trees base is a sugar cone (in case you were wondering) and the characters i bought from the Disney store!


I was very happy with how this cake turned out and it ended up that there was just enough cake for all the YW and i didn't have to bring any of it home!

The Zoo

So we went to the zoo back in September when Kari (jake's sister) was here and i finally got the pictures off my camera. I'm a little slow, but i thought i'd show off my cute niece and nephews!