Wedding Weekend

This week was FULL of baking!  Not only did I do those cupcakes, but I also did a wedding cake for a different wedding.  This is my first time doing two weddings at once and everything went off without a hitch!  So here is the cake I did . . .

Cupcakes . . . Lots of Cupcakes!

If you've ever wondered what 225 cupcakes look like . . . well you don't have to wonder any longer.  This is what they look like.

Lemon cupcakes with strawberry filling and a vanilla buttercream.  Tastes like a strawberry lemonade. . . Yum!!!

 Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.  I love how the little flowers turned out with the pearl in the center!

 White cupcake with white chocolate buttercream!  This is the best tasting buttercream . . . EVER!!!

These are chocolate fudge cupcakes with chocolate ganache filling and chocolate buttercream.  Oh my heavens, if you love chocolate these are a taste of heaven.  I used pearls to decorate these.

 I LOVE making cupcakes.

Chalk Art Festival

The girls wanted to participate in the local chalk art festival.  For $3 they each got there own square of cement to draw on, artist quality chalk, as well as a bunch of prizes for participating.  One of the prizes was a free donut at Spudnuts.  Anytime we can get a free donut from there count us in!!!

This is the same Spudnut shop that Sarah Palin would go to!

Here are the girls creating their masterpieces.

Here is Honey practicing her shading.  

 This is the artist that was next to us.  She was kind enough to teach the girls how to shade.

This is one of the finished pieces of art work.  I wish I could show better in this picture how brilliant the colors were.  The chalk the gave them was really amazing.  It was so sunny though all my pictures look washed out.  Bummer!

Lovin' our Backyard

I have to say that I love our location right now!!!  The weather has been SUPER mild which is totally uncharacteristic.  It's normally blistering hot right now.  I am especially loving that we have a almost finished backyard right now that makes the outside so much more enjoyable.  Here are some pics of our evenings enjoying our backyard!

 Do you see that???  Is that grass in the backyard? 

 This is the lower level and the start of a firepit.  We are forming our own concrete surround.  On the lower level we also have room for a garden, swing set and trampoline!  Loving the yard!!  So worth the sweat and tears!  And boy there was a lot of sweat and tears!

Happy Birthday

Can you believe that this little girl is a year old?  I sure can't!!!  Is it just me or does it seem that the more kids you have the faster they grow up?!  I sure love this girl and can't wait to see her grow and watch as her little personality continues to blossom. 

Playing catch up

Yes, these pictures are from Memorial Day Weekend and yes, I realize that was like 2 months ago, but what can I say?  I'm busy?  Raising four kids?  Homeschool?  Baking?   I know that none of these excuses will pass for my mother who has been hounding me for updates to our family blog,so here goes!  

Memorial Day Weekend . . .

 Our toothless girl!!

 I think this was the first time our littlest girl had been in a swing!  She LOVED it!

 This is my brother and his bf.  Well, not really!  He is on a mission for two years and so we had to include him in our family tradition.  We call him Avatar Evan.  And don't worry. . . those are just Thomas Kemper Rootbeers.  :)

And what little kid doesn't love jumping in puddles.  We had to go out and buy rain boots for this trip cause the kids just seemed to gravitate to each and every puddle on the campground.