Cake Cake Cake!

My little baking helper! Well, at least my little tasting helper :)

Lot of baking this week! I made 200 cookies, a ladybug cake, and jumbo cupcakes for a bake/garage sale for Young Womens. (And another ladybug cake for Emmaline...I didn't have the heart to make a ladybug cake and just give it away...she loves her ladybug cakes :) ) Then my mom's been playing around with the idea of making Will and Marissa's wedding cake, so we made a tester cake this weekend. My mom made the cake, and I did the fondant and the decorations. So it's been a little crazy this week, but I've learned my lesson about commiting myself to more than I can do :) And it has been fun to be able to play around with it though!

Playing with Daddy

I think both of them were tired of getting their pictures taken!

Feeding the ducks with Grandpa

We lucked out getting to see baby geese!

We went to feed the ducks at Veterans Park, which is right across the river from Grandpa's office, so he came over to feed the ducks with us. (Mommy is afraid of the ducks/seagulls/birds in general, so I made Grandpa help her. It's like someone being afraid of spiders, and taking your child to a big nest of spiders so they can feed them and make them come closer to you. :) )

It worked!

So I've been looking into fondant for a little while, and my Beehives decorated a cake with fondant, and it worked so well that I had to come home and try one of my own, and it is so easy to work with! It's really forgiving, and if it's too dry you just add a little water, and if it's too sticky a little powdered sugar. It is so easy to work with! I mean, it tastes horrible, but it looks pretty cute. And Emmaline loved her cake :)

The Crazy Aunt

Okay, I think I'm officially the "crazy Aunt." You know how you always have that one Aunt who sends you really wierd stuff? I think that's me. For Christmas this year I think it would be so cute to make all of the little girl cousins matching T-shirts, but Royce thinks I'm crazy. He's been teaching me to use Fireworks, so I've been playing around on the computer, and made these little things(with his help). I'd put the flower thingy on the back, and their first name on the front. So I don't know...tell me what you think.

Where did all of Emmaline's toys go?

Oh yeah, there they are.






Yep, that's daddy under there.



I've been really sick the last couple of days, and so Royce has stayed home to take care of me/Emmaline, and Emmaline has had so much fun with Daddy. He went to work for a few hours today, and then he called to say he was coming home, and Emmaline kept looking out the window, saying, "I can't see Daddy's car yet." It was so cute. We love Daddy so much!!!!

Finger Paint

I found a cool recipe for home-made finger paint. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks pretty cool. It's on the "A Place of our Own" web-site.

Supply List
1/4 cup cornstarch

2 cups water

½ teaspoon of food coloring

How-To
The first step in finger painting is creating the finger paint. You can make your own by mixing ¼ cup of cornstarch with 2 cups of water and ½ teaspoon of food coloring all in a saucepan. Boil the ingredients until the mixture thickens. Allow the paint to cool before storing the paint in an airtight container. Kids can help mixing the ingredients together, but the boiling of the paint should be done by the provider. Kids shouldn’t eat the finger paint, but because we’re making it using cornstarch and food coloring, our finger paint is safe, in case any kids do ingest it.