Bacon and Eggs

Check how how cute these are!
The "bacon" is preztle sticks.
The "eggs" are a melted white chocolate chip with a yellow M&M in the middle.

Off to Grandma's House We Go...

We recently took a trip up north to visit Jason's Grandmother which would be the girls Great Grandma, Cousins, second Cousins, and Auntie Carol and Auntie Diane (Jason's Sisters). It was a short tip but such a nice one. The weather was crisp and the scenery was beautiful...although the drive was l-o-n-g the girls did pretty well.

On our first day we had a lovely dinner that Cissy made and served in her beautiful SLAH pieces. For those of you who know me or have been to one of my parties you know how much I love my SLAH (Southern Living At Home)...and Cissy sells it! I was like a kid in a candy store. Peyton hit if off with her cousin Lauren as if they played together everyday. Great was there and poor sweetie broke her tooth on Cissy's steak...LOL. Actually, we were told it has happened before and it was not because of the meat but I did get a kick out of how she kept saying she broke it on Cissy's steak. We thoroughly enjoyed listening to her stories and watching her face light up when she saw the girls. Curt came home early from his trip to have dinner with us and thank goodness he did because Addie took quite a liking to him as he did her too.

Our second say we spent some time with Great chatting and enjoying the company of each other. That evening we met up with Jason's sisters for dinner. Friday night driving into Sacramento is just like Friday night driving to OC or LA...YUCK! But the trip certainly was worth it once we got to see Carol and Diane. We shared laughs over dinner then shared desert. Oh how Peyton loves to play with her Auntie Carol! It was a wonderful evening and we are glad we made it.

On our third and final day we stopped by to spend a few minutes with Great to say goodbye. She commented on how long it would be and she wondered how big the girls would be the next time she see them...I just pray it is not too long. Afterwards we headed out to breakfast and then cousin Steven's. He gave us a tour of his lovely home and when we got to the upstairs Peyton spotted Emily's toy room and that was the last we saw of her until it was time to go home...tee hee. Shelly was able to stop by for a few minutes to say hello, that was nice. It was a nice afternoon. We are gad we made the trip out there. As we were piling into the van to head out Peyton bent over to look at the rocks around the tree in Steve and Shelly's front yard. I quickly told her she could not take one of the rocks because they belong to them (Peyton loves to pick up rocks, sticks, and leaves). She frowned a bit then blushed as she realized what had just happened and put the rock back down. Shelly told her to hold on a moment as she ran into the house and came back with a tin filled with beautiful rocks for Peyton to take home. Needless to say Peyton was on cloud nine...thank you Shelly!

We made it home safe, sound, and pooped.

Generations...Great, Nana, Peyton, & Addison


Curt and Addison dancing to Frank Sinatra


Jason, Addison, Carol, Peyton, & Diane


Addison hanging out by Steve and Shelly's pool

Course 1, Week 4

This is the cake from my last week in course 1 of cake decorating. We had lots of fun the past four weeks and luckily have not eaten every cake that I have brought home. This one was given to a friend of mine after I brought it home for a photo shoot.

Guess Who's Sitting Up...and has enough hair at 8 Months old for Pigtails!

That's right Ladies and Gentlemen...it's Addie!
She has gained so much strength since her surgery, probably since her little body does not have to work so hard anymore. She is doing phenomenal.

In case you are wondering what happen to Easter...
I am a bum. I was sooo busy with the little stuff I did not get to take pictures like I normally do and the few that I did take are not that great. We did have a lovely Easter and hope that you all did too. I am planning on taking the girls to get pictures done in their cute dress that Aunt Shirley and I made. Stay tuned...but don't hold your breath.

Random Mumblings

Guess what! My nephew Aiden, a kindergartner; raised the most money in his entire school for the Jump For Heart fundraiser! Thanks to all of you and your love for Addison. His Principal made a big announcement and showered him with honor and praise. She was well aware of his mission to raise as much money as he could in honor of his baby cousin who was about to undergo open-heart surgery and was touched by his gesture. One of his prizes was a jump for heart t-shirt which he gave to Addison "so she can wear it as a nightgown". Awesome job Aiden! Addison is proud of you.

Shea's new Hobby

I am taking a cake decorating class with 2 friends and it is being taught by a friend as well. We are having WAY too much fun, sometimes causing us to not be as productive as we should; but always enjoying our time together and through all the laughter we somehow manage to learn and finish the evening with some pretty good results. Since the class is taught by our friend she has been "catering" to our...we'll mainly my pain in the butt request and demands. No, I don't wanna learn how to do ugly clowns...I want to skip to class 4 and do fondant! She is happy to oblige since we are having so much fun but sticks to her guns at the same time and makes us learn the basics as well. I never plan on doing a character cake so why do I care how to make a star...turns out I am not so bad with a star and ended up doing a whole bunch of cupcakes with it for Easter. Good thing she made me do it!

Let me say this...
This is not as easy as you think, there is way more involved with a pretty cake than just baking and icing it. Sparing you all the details of what goes into it I'll just say I give props to all the cake decorators out there and now I know why cakes are so dang expensive.

Star Tip (I ran out of pink so I mixed the colors)


Roses (not too shabby)