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)

While Mommy's Away

It's Saturday and Jason is home so that means I get to run errands ALL BY MYSELF! This is big people. Do you know how often I am alone to do whatever I want, to not have to buckle someone else's seatbelt other than my own, to be able to "run in the store" without it taking 15 minutes just to get in the car to go to the store...not very often so I took advantage of it and ran some errands this afternoon. God bless my husband for taking care of the kids and the house so that I CAN have some me time, even if it does mean going to the post office, the bank, Joann's, and Target for cat food and liter. A few hours later I arrived back home and this is what I saw when I walked in the door...



Only a Dad would put the baby in the highchair to feed her a bottle LOL.

Music to my ears

She laughs for Daddy...She laughs for Mommy...but only Big Sister Peyton can get her to laugh like this!

Addie gets a taste of a Dole Whip...and SHE LIKES IT!