Dinnertime Chat

Full and ready for a bath!

I "heart" face chat! Ok, so this is not the best picture, but just so you get the idea! Yesterday Lisa called  to face chat with us while Adycen was trying baby food for the first time! It was so cute! She was a real mess, but very interested in her carrots, taking a break every once in a while to stare at us on the computer! I am so glad we got to share that with her! We face chat on the ipad, so this is just a shot of the screen during the chat. We also got to see Lisa's craftiness- she made Adycen an OU hair bow and matching tutu! Both were adorable! (She of course was not wearing them during dinner!) We also got to see Lisa's cute new hair cut and highlight, courtesy of Brycen's sister. So all around a fun chat- way better than talking on the phone.

Marching Band

Hickman's mascot - the Kewpies! Woot Woot!

Here's a few photos of Madison in her new marching band uniform. They worked hard in band camp for 2 weeks in August and even harder once school started - 6:30am practices and also 1 evening a week until dark. Last Friday was their first performance - a big one too- the Providence Bowl- played at Faurot Field at the University of Missouri. Both Rock Bridge and Hickman played the National Anthem together, and both performed a halftime show. They performed the pre-show and the first movement of their show which is called "Unstoppable" We took some video too-- but I think it's too big to post on here. It was fun to watch- such an exciting atmosphere and experience. 

Even though we lost…

It was a fantastic start to marching band season!

Cakes for Brayden & Kami

I made 2 special cakes this past week for 2 awesome kids! Brayden, who turned 5 and Kami, who turned 3. Brayden wanted the "Super Hero Squad" with a special request for the Hulk to be included. I found a card to put on the base of the cake that when you pushed the buttons, the super heroes gave you a message. For example, the hulk says "Bring On Cake!" I don't know if this counts as an "extreme element" or not, but it did win some points with the birthday boy. The building is rice krispie cereal treat iced and covered with a brick patterned fondant, on top of a 10 inch white cake surrounded by city scape and super heroes.

Kami wanted Dora the Explorer! Here is her super cool 2-tiered cake with all the special touches! Happy Birthday Brayden and Kami!

Edible Arrangement

This is the second "edible arrangement" that I have made. The first one I made for Jared for Father's Day. This one was made for Madison's 16th birthday (no cake!) She had band camp all week and the week before as well. It was such a busy week, and especially busy the day of her birthday with the addition of sophomore schedule pick up day and parent orientation meetings, etc. -- we decided we have this treat with croissant sandwiches for a speedy quick dinner before having to return to marching band. If you do try this, use a head of lettuce and not cabbage! The cabbage is much harder to poke the skewers of fruit into! They are fun to make though. Especially with the yummy summer fruits.

Ipad2 Brownie & Cake

While the Adycen, Brycen and Lisa were here we celebrated Jared's birthday. I was making the wedding cake on his real birhday, so we decided to wait. This was a fun cake to do! Jared loves his ipad2, so we tried to recreate in in cake. For the base we did a 12 inch round yellow cake covered in brown marbled fondant. I wanted it to look like granite or wood.

Then there was the matter of the ipad cover- Jared's is a pale blue. So I took the cover and made and impression of it on some blue fondant and trimmed around it to make the cover. In this photo you can see the real one in the back ground and the fondant one on top of the cake (it has a hole in it! but it was going to get covered up anyway!)

 The ipad itself was made out of a very thin brownie, iced and covered in white fondant. Blue swirled fondant was layed down for the screen and then I called Jared and the kids in to make the apps. I loved how they all turned out. Most were hand painted - There's even Angry Birds!

Happy 41 Jared! Looking better than ever!

Visit from Adycen

Later in July Brycen and Lisa brought Adycen for a visit. It was so fun to have them all here again. Adycen is getting so big. She loves to be a part of the action, so we got her the Bumbo seat. Here's a few pictures of her enjoying it:

 She enjoyed her seat, but also enjoyed being held! A lot! Good thing so many people wanted to do that! Sometimes though, she just fell asleep in the middle of everything! So cute!

 Lisa had made many a bow for this girl! Here's a few cute ones:

We love you, Adycen! Thanks for coming!

Something Blue

Here is the wedding cake we did last weekend -- This is 4 tiers, 12, 10, 8, and 6 inch. Two were a sour cream yellow cake and the other two were dark chocolate. We stacked this cake a little differently, slightly toward the back like a staircase. The flowers were white roses and blue delphinium. Ivy surrounded the silver base. The bride provided the topper of the Nauvoo Temple, where they were sealed last Friday. I put a small round LED light in it, so it glowed from within. My favorite part was the trim on top of this beautiful blue ribbon. The reception was gorgeous-- and I was honored to be asked to make the cake! Here's a few photos: