Preschool

Sorry no pictures yet, but Parker started his last year of preschool yesterday. He gets to go everyday so he (and I) are really excited. He absolutely loves it and can hardly wait to get there everyday. This last few months has been really fun with Parker. He's started reading a little and loves to play an I spy game of sorts where instead of telling me about how what he sees looks he tells me the sound that it starts with. Its pretty cute. I can't believe this kid is getting so old. It's fun to see him learning new things and to see how excited he is about it all.
KC's a little jealous that he can't go with Parker, for the last few days after we drop Parker off I hear "KC preschool, KC preschool!" for about 20 mins afterwards, with tears to add effect. Poor kid, he's a little lonely with out Parker to follow around, but I like the one on one time with him. Even if we spend it napping lol.

Aaron starts classes tomorrow. I've wanted him to go back to school ever since he finished his bachelors, but now that he really is I'm not so sure I want him gone lol. He's such a great help at home, we'll miss him!! Its just a few nights a week so I'm sure we'll survive, and I think he's excited about it.
This last weekend we celebrated the 6th anniversary of our first date, which was also the first time we meet. And the day I told my mom I was pretty sure I would marry him. And what do you know, so far so good! :) He really is the greatest guy. He works hard to take care of our family, but doesn't let his job take him away from us when it doesn't need to, He's always more than willing to play with the kids and spend time with all of us. He changes diapers, gets up at night when needed, cooks dinner (a lot), and is the best friend I could ever ask for. I love you Aaron and I'm so glad we let Sheila set us up on that date!!
Today is also my parents 30th anniversary! Check out my moms blog for some really fun pictures from their wedding :) Congratulations you guys!!

Well thats about all the excitement here for now, I'm not doing very many cakes right now, and blogging has kind of been on the back burner. I'll try to get some new pics soon and be better about it!!!

I've been domesticated

My very first try canning :) I've done jam lots of times, but never anything else so since we got a big box of peaches over the weekend I thought I'd give it a try. I probably could have bought canned peaches for a third of the price, but where's the fun in that?
Peaches :) and Strawberry Jam
The aftermath

:) Yeah KC! (:

This has been a long time coming, but finally, he did it! KC went to nursery at church for the first time in our ward and stayed the whole time all by himself!!! Its a little ridiculous since he's been in nursery since the beggining of the uear, but before even the mention of nursery brought tears and protests. But yesterday Aaron dropped him off and he played happily the whole time. The only tears were after I cam e and finished singing time and had to leave again. Usually after this one of us has to stay with him or take him to class with us, but not this time :) He recovered and had a great time! Whoohoo!! Freedom at last!

Castle Cake

Here's this weeks project. A princess castle cake. I think I've decided that birthday cakes just aren't my thing. I'd much rather do a wedding cake, I think they are easier. When it comes to a birthday cake or other celebration cake I just feel so uncreative. I'll probably still do birthday cakes if people want them, but I'm glad I don't get a lot of requests for them. This one was fun just because I haven't had a lot of chances to do cakes for little girls, so I enjoyed that. Id you look closely I used an impression mat to add a cobblestone appearance to the cake. It was a little tricky since it was done in buttercream and I would have much rather used fondant for all of it, but it was fun thing to try. The turets are plastic covered with fondant.

Sorry, I'm a bit behind with the blogging lately, just haven't been in the mood for it I guess. That and since we got back from Vegas there hasn't been a whole lot going on. We did go to Aarons high school reunion last weekend, that was fun, but I'm glad to be home and have no where that we have to go for awhile.

So I don't have anything new and exciting to post about, but I did get my photo cd from Evelyn today and so I thought I'd put some of my favorites from our sitting on here. I LOVE all the pictures and can't wait to get some of them up on my walls.

So here you go, enjoy my cute kiddos. Aren't they adorable? Blogger doesn't do them justice, you have to see the prints, they're great.

Evelyn, I lvoe the effect you used on these, so cool, I might have to order some more prints, maybe next month when I'm not so broke lol

I love that KC's feet are actually off the ground in this one, he loves to jump

Cake Camp

Cake camp was awesome. I had so much fun and can't wait till the next time I can go to something like this. I only wish I'd been able to take more classes, but the ones I did take were so fun. Here are a few pics. Do you recognize these guys from the Food network?!?!?

Here I am with Norman Davis and Zane Beg!!!

Colette Peters!!!

It was so cool to meet so many people that have done so much in the cake business. I felt like I had finally arrived as a real cake designer, or as Norm says we should call ourselves, Sugar Artist. Everyone was so nice and willing to answer any questions we had and I learned so much from themHere we are at the big banquet we had friday night.

There are some more pictures, but not a lot so this is all I'm going to post for now. The rest are on my facebook page if you want to see them :)