stuff i've been doing lately...

Baby shower cake for a friend. It is red velvet with Bavarian cream filling. The stroller is a twinkie. It was really REALLY tasty.





Spencer's birthday Buzz Lightyear cake.

pretty stuff.

I'm so excited that my tulips are in full bloom! I have Queen of the Night... the dark purple/black ones... A pink one that is more peachy on the inside.



This is the long side shot of the walk up to the house.

I LOVE my peony tulips. They are a stripped pink and white with lots of petals like unto a peony rose.
I love spring now that it's finally here!

flowers, helicopter and gym

I'm so happy that my flowers are blooming. All the daffodils are smiling at us. I love them so much. Thanks mom.




Kyle's birthday was last month and got a new helicopter. He's having so much fun reading the directions. It just came today. I love the look on his face!



And for me... I've been saving some craft money and found a gym that was $49 to enroll and only $10 a month. I'm very excited to have a gym. I like the equipment and they have a cardio cinema. It's a dark room with treadmills, elliptical and bikes that has an almost movie theater sized screen and you watch a movie.
We feel blessed.

Flowers in Bloom... and weeds.

I have been noticing the weeds are starting to take over so I thought I would nip it before it really started. While I was weeding I noticed that my bulbs are really active. I'm very excited.


You can barely see them but these are peony tulips.

I am very pleased. All of my bulbs are out. And one lone daffodil is already boomed.



I didn't even know that I had crocus. They didn't bloom last year.

I love spring!

Stake Relief Society Day.

I was schnookered. A couple of months ago a sign up sheet goes through primary for Stake Relief Society Day. I see nobody signed up for food so I put my name down and number thinking.... I can totally make a batch of cookies or brownies.

I was wrong. I signed up for the food committee. I go to the first meeting and wow.... I have never been to a stake organizing meeting before. If you've ever seen a bump on a log... you have a good idea what I did. I felt lost and out of place. But I was sitting next to my back yard neighbor whom I LOVE!
She volunteers to make some cakes for the dessert. I lean over to her and say if you need help let me know. Now my neighbor teaches cake decorating at the craft store here and is super talented. She told me she might need some freezer space for the cakes. I say no problem.

Tues. night she calls and says she's swamped and doesn't have time to make a cake and can I do it. I say yes. Then she asks if I have time to make two cakes. I say sure. I'm thinking a simple sheet cake because it's me... and she'll cut some slack for me. But no. She brings over 4 that's right FOUR cake mixes and tells me that I need to make them in a cookie or jelly roll pan. Two cake mixes per cake. Then ice them any way I would like.
Wed. I baby sat Dean and didn't make the cakes because I thought I can just make the cakes on Thursday. I get home at 5pm lots of time to make 4 mixes and I can put them all together on Friday when I get home at 5pm.
Thursday morning I remember that I'm working a double... 7am-1030pm. YIPES! But I had to at least start the cakes. So I make 2 cakes yesterday but here's the thing..... they are super thin. I don't think 2 cakes stacked will look nice for feed enough people.
My neighbor also gave me a lemon ricotta filling for the cakes. So with lemon theme in mind I brain storm and decide to make 2 more cakes... lemon and put them in the middle. So it's 3 layered... white, lemon, white. I only had enough filling for 1 cake and the other cake I made a lemon custard and make the butter cream icing flavored lightly lemon.



So to make a long story short... here they are.

It's almost Spring!

I'm so excited that my bulbs are starting to sprout. I was a little worried because we've had 3 or 4 inches of snow but they seem to be okay.


This is my first tulip sprouting.

I have lots of daffodils coming up. I'm so so excited. It's almost SPRING!

Rude awakening....

So this morning I woke up, looked at the clock and it was 5:24. UGH! I woke up 1 minute before the alarm went off. So instead of the alarm blaring and waking up Kyle, I get up. Turn it off and start to get ready for work.
While I'm in the shower I think it's weird that my little alarm didn't go off. However I have a history of turning off the little alarm in my sleep, thus the big, blaring, boisterous alarm to tell me it's time to get up NOW.
I took a little extra time in the shower and when I come back and start getting dressed the time is now5:40.
I'm all dressed and and Kyle is getting up to shower and I look at the clock and suddenly is 2:43am!
Whhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't understand! I get my little alarm and it's 2:40am. I tell Kyle to get back into bed, it's not time to get up. I go to the living room and the clock says 2:45. The kitchen stove clock tells me the same.
I take out my contacts, get back into my jammies, reset the alarm and go back to bed. But now I'm worried that I won't wake up.
But I did. Kyle went to get ready and I crashed very hard for about 30 min. When I did wake up it was 5:55. We need to leave in 5 min. At least I was showered.
It's been a long day. I'm ready for a very long sleep tonight.