Cake Company

I am looking for suggestions for a cake company I am starting up.  I really like frosted but it is already taken.  Any suggestions?

My Most Recent Wedding Cake

Gingerbread houses

So these aren't really gingerbread houses, but graham crackers are so much more convenient.  This first one is Hailey's house.  She wanted a big one.

Here are the girls eating the candy rather than using it for decoration.

This one is Emma's house.  The roof collapsed and so they made it into a dog house for Digby.  Sad I know, especially since we don't have Digby anymore! :(

Then the piece de resistance . . . My Dad's.  We were lucky to have him visit for a couple of days.  He had some work near us so he stayed at our house.  Here he is admiring his work.

This is his masterpiece.  His inspiration was the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Wisconsin.  He said that he didn't want his design to conform to "The Man" and so he followed nature and came up with this.  

For all you moms out there!

This post is dedicated to all you moms out there.  Does anyone else hate it when there husbands come home and ask what you did during the day?  For some reason it really irritates me.  I am usually so incredibly brain fried that I can't remember what it is that I did.  Plus whenever I DO remember what it is that I did it just doesn't seem like I have done that much.   So when I found this song on a friends blog I just had to share with the rest of my fellow moms out there.  Share it with your husbands if you feel like me.  For the mom that can't quite remember what she has done during the day, this song reminds you! http://deseretbook.com/video/view/61

Idols In Concert!

Last night I got to go to the Idols In Concert!  It was awesome!  They performed a ton of Christmas music and each of them did one of their own songs.  My favorite was Diana Degarmo.  She just came out with a country album.  Now I am not normally a huge country fan but she did a song called Thanks about the men and women currently serving in the military and it is absolutely amazing.  The only place you can buy her new album is at this concert series so you better believe I picked one up.  And had it signed!!!!  Plus, I got to have my picture taken with each and every one of them!  It doesn't get much better than that!  My friend and I felt like we were in high school again, especially when David and Chikezie came up right next to our faces and put their arms around us to take a picture.  We were smiling from ear to ear!  It was so much fun!!!

Christmas Outfits

Every year we buy the kids Christmas outfits.  I was so excited to find a little suit for Carson!  But he didn't really want to have his picture taken to these were the best I could do.  

Home School Ice Skating Party

Today we got to go ice skating.  This was the kids first time ice skating and they loved it.  It took Emma a while to warm up to the idea, but eventually trusted me enough to really enjoy herself.  But let me tell you, it was not easy trying to hold up three kids who are learning to skate.  Add to that, myself being on skates, which I am not that good at.  But we had a lot of fun! Then we went to pizza hut and used our free pizza coupons for the Book It program.  It amazes me that this program is still around.  They had this when I was a kid.  You read a certain amount each month and then you get a free pizza!  Pretty awesome if you ask me.  Hailey kept saying over and over again, "Mom, this was the best day!  We got to go ice skating and eat pizza!"  Oh, bringing joy to the hearts of children, one heart at a time ;)!

From the mouth of Hailey!

Last night Hailey came downstairs after having been put to bed and informed Robb that she and Emma were no longer friends.  This is a big deal in our house because I strongly emphasize that they are sisters and will always be best friends and will be best friends forever (whether they like it or not ;) ).  So Hailey knows better to not say something like this.  But she quickly elaborated on her statement.  "Emma and I aren't friends anymore, we're pals!"  Too cute!

MMMMM . . . Cookies!

So I have been massively baking trying to get things in the freezer to hand out later for Christmas.  I started with mini lemon poppyseed bread, then yesterday made some of the most delicious chocolate chip cookies ever!  I also tried a new recipe for dinner.  Orange chicken served over a bed of couscous.  Sooooo good!!!!  Today I am going to attempt to make chocolate petit four cakes with a chocolate peppermint glaze.  I can hardly wait!  I will try to put the recipes on Our Family's Favorite Recipes blog later.  Keep checking it and I will try and get them on there later today.

Christmas Tree #2

So I know I have already posted about a Christmas tree, but we actually have two.  One is the kids tree that is in the family room and this one is our nicer tree in the living room.  It was fun to decorate this one because Carson was awake.  As you can tell from the pics he was a big helper.  It was a lot of fun and it looks beautiful at night all lit up.  I love that it is in the bay window so you can see it outside.  I love Christmas!

New Best Friends

Emma has a new best friend.  My parents cat Whiskers loved cuddling up next to Emma.  She loved it too.  I honestly don't know how that cat is still alive.  I had this cat when I was a kid and we got him as a stray.  Yesterday I was watching Rachel Ray and they were talking about this cat that was 21 years old.  That is like 200 years old for a cat!  I think Whiskers is catching up to that cat!  

Flip Flops and Applesauce Giveaway

One of my favorite blogs Flip Flops and Applesauce is having a giveaway.  I have a button for her site on our blog side bar and I check it everyday.  She always has the cutest little crafts to do with your kids.  I have used quite a few of them for homeschool (see our homeschool blog).  Well one of the requirements of the giveaway is to post one of the projects you used off of her blog.  So here are the clothespin and dryer sheet butterflies we made.  It was super easy and the girls loved it!  

Come What May, and Love It

Elder Wirthlin passed away last night at the age of 91.  He was the oldest living apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  He led a wonderful life and spent it being an example of his beliefs.  His wife passed away in 2006 and I can only imagine the sweet reunion he has now had with his sweet wife.  He will be missed, but I am happy that he is now reunited with his wife.  This last October conference he gave a wonderful talk titled Come What May, and Love It.  It was an amazing message and I remember the feeling of comfort it left me.  For those that didn't get a chance to hear or read it or for those of you that are not members of the church I attend and are interested, here is the link . . .  http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-947-9,00.html

Nothing But Tears' Shampoo

I saw this and thought it was blog worthy!  Tell me what you think!  I have to forewarn you that there is one bad word in the article.  I don't want to desensitize anyone, but the article was just to funny not to mention.  So for your reading pleasure I present an article titled Nothing But Tears' Shampoo . . .

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/johnson_johnson_introduces_nothing?utm_source=onion_rss_daily