Strawberry Shortcake Cake!

I've been wanting to do a cake like this for awhile, so when my friend Kristen asked for a strawberry shortcake cake, I was way excited. I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I couldn't decide if I liked it better with the figure on it or not. I don't like to put figures on my cakes that aren't edible. But I am kind of reticent about making figures, they're just hard to make as good as you wish they would look. So I let her choose, I liked the way it turned out. Happy Birthday cute Ella!

Founder's Day!

Last week was Founder's Day for Pleasant View. We went over for the parade. Here is a cute random tractor, Jeremy took the picture, but I love these cute old tractors.

Here's miss black eye, enjoying the candy.
I love parades that have cute old tractors and little mini horses. It's so much better than just a car with a sign of a business on it.
Happy Founder's Day!

Bear Lake

Last week, we joined the Wood family for our annual Bear Lake trip. It was a little cooler and windier then one may have wished for, but still very fun. My girls loved playing at the "beach". As you can see the beach was only about 2 feet of mud, but hey, who doesn't like to play in mud?
Rylee wasn't a huge fan of swimming, but did warm up to it a bit, by the end of the week. Where as, you had to drag Reese out of the pool.
Mostly Rylee just wanted to stay wrapped up in her towel. This pic cracks me up because I kept making her get in the pool, when I should have just sat by the side and let her do more of this.
There is this tiny golf course there, and luckily, there was no on else, when we went. So we kind of let the kids on a free for all.
My mom and dad were so nice to plan , and pay for the whole thing - thanks again! (not like they are going to read this :)

Finally a pic with Reese actually looking at me, and no crazy eyes. I better frame it.
Reese just got her bike and is doing really good at home riding it. But being there, presented a few challenges that she is apparently not ready for, like tiny hills, or practically non existent bumps. When anything looked a little bit iffy, she would have to get off her bike and walk it. She cracks me up, I'm sure someday, she'll be able to fly down hills and I'll wish she would be more slow, but this is not that day.

We had a fun week, Rylee got a few injuries, but is healing nicely. The best part was Jeremy got to come up for a bit of it. With work it's hard for him to get away. But the girls loved having him there.

First Black Eye

Yep it's a shiner! Isn't it awful? I get nervous taking her to the store, with what people are going to say. She got into a fight with a table. She tripped on a pillow right into the table. It instantly swelled up and bruised up. My poor little baby.

My Rylee.

I was trying to think of something to post, and I decided to talk about my little Rylee pants.

Since she was born she has been great, sleeping completely through the night at 5 weeks. Very calm, independent, and happy.

Since she's been getting older, her personality has been coming out. She's a bit mischievous, loves to climb, and loves to grab anything and everything. She's quite active, likes to be wrestled around, and puts everything in her mouth.

She is talking way above normal, already knows most of her animal sounds, and can point to most everything on her body. And can already pick out a few colors.

She likes to eat, and doesn't mind getting messy to do so.

She's staring to get quite an attitude. She's a lot of fun. For how much she wants to be independent, she's also a pretty good snuggler. She plays pretty good with Reese and loves to laugh. It's exciting when you get to see their personalities come out. I may have a bit more trouble headed my way with this one, than I did with Reese but we'll see.

Lucky me for such a sweet and silly little lady.

Safe Kids Fair.

I sometimes feel that there is nothing to do around here. I saw they were having a safe kids fair, so I decided we should go. There was a ton of people there, and I have to admit, it left a bit to be desired, but at least we got out and did something.

They got to sit in a fire truck. (I could not get Reese to keep her hat on the right way.)

Little duck pond. Neither of them could really get the ducks.
Don't ask me who this princess was supposed to be, I think her name was Princess Amara, (whoever that is,) Reese didn't seem to care that she was some random girl, and liked meeting her.
They had a little (very little) petting zoo area, the girls loved that the most, as well as the kittys for adoption.

We did get a free t-shirt, but you should have seen the line we had to wait in just to get in, apparently everyone else was thinking the same thing as me. Here's to more things in this area, maybe the next thing will be a little bit better. :)

Happy Birthday, to my Dad!

My Dad turns 60 this week, which is kind of weird, but anyway, I had to make a good cake for the big 60. For those of you who don't know my Dad, he has gardened forever. He has a nice big garden, that mostly he by himself takes care of.

I had seen this idea a long time ago, and was trying to think of a cute idea, and decided on this. I think what makes this cake cute is the little veggies for sure.

The veggies are made out of modeling chocolate, with some fondant. Homemade, yummy, chocolate cake, with buttercream frosting, and oreo "dirt".

I know not a great pic, because you can't see his face, but it's the best I got.
This was a big weekend for cake making. My friend Kristen's little girl is in love with Phineus and Ferb. Don't ask me which one is which. Apparently they sit under a tree and decide what crazy adventure they are going to have that day.
I looked at different pictures and chose things I liked from each one, and this is what I came up with.
Characters make me nervous, I think if they don't turn out good, the whole cake looks dumb. The tree and the boys, and their platypus are made from modeling chocolate. Obviously fondant covered. Chocolate and vanilla cakes.
Happy Birthday to Mallory and my Dad! I'm glad that's done with, now I can relax :)