Cake class- week 2.

That was fun! Tonight we learned how to make roses, rosebuds and leaves. It's actually easier than I thought it would be. I was so excited to learn how to do it and I couldn't hold back my enthusiam! My teacher probably thinks I'm a nut. Maybe I am a little weird but I just get excited about cakes. It's great to have a passion for something, right? Anyway, let me know what you think! Do I have what it takes???? Who wants me to make a cake for them?!

My first cake decorating class cake!

Here's my first cake class cake! I made it tonight at my cake decorating class. It was really fun! The instructor taught us how to use the grass tip and also taught us a couple of different ways to do borders. Coleman let me use 3 of his toy trucks and he was so thrilled when I brought this home! I also found out what the local bakeries use to make whipped cream frosting. It's this stuff called Pastry Pride Non-Dairy Ready to Whip Topping. It is so divine. So light and not too sweet. A perfect alternative to buttercream. I think I will be using this on most of my cakes. Will really thinks that I should start taking pictures of all the cakes I do and make a portfolio and start selling cakes. I have done quite a few and I really do enjoy it but I think I will have to do many more cakes before I'd feel comfortable asking for money for them. Anyway, I told the instructor what I really want to learn to do sometime during the course is how to stack cakes. I think some of the best birthday cakes I've seen have been tall, stacked cakes using fondant to make it all super smooth and gum paste cut-outs to jazz it up. I'd love to eventually be making cakes like this guy!
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Amazing, right?! Maybe someday. Well, I'll post another cake next week!

Classic Car Show.

Yesterday, we went to a classic car show where there were over a hundred classic cars to see. I had an inkling that Coleman would love it and he did! He is so obsessed with cars and trucks and loved seeing all those unique cars in one place. I believe that we saw every car at least 3 times. They had a live cover band, which was interesting, and they were taking requests. I'm not sure who was making all the requests (maybe it was that one guy with the mullet, first mullet I've seen in UT, by the way) but I think most the covers we heard were 80s rock bands. Def Leppard, Guns 'n' Roses, Bon Jovi. It just didn't seem to go with an event where most the cars were from the 50s and 60s. I would've loved to have heard a Beach Boys cover or some doo-wop music.

Anyway, while we were walking around, this huge truck came into the park! It seriously was so jacked up that I could've walked under it. Kinda ridiculous, really, but neat to see nonetheless. And, needless to say, Coleman was twitterpated.

And this little blue number has my name written all over it! Couldn't you see me cruising in this?! Will says when we win the lottery... And considering we don't play the lottery, that means never. :)

Wow. The whole house is quiet. I feel like taking a deep breath and just relaxing. My days just feel so crazy sometimes. It's always so loud and there are so many things going all at once. When everybody goes to bed at night, I try to take some time for myself to just unwind. Unfortunately tonight I have to get to bed at a reasonable hour because I've got tennis at 8 am tomorrow morning. So much for sleeping in on the weekends. With tennis every Saturday morning and church every Sunday morning I'm going to have to resort to taking Sunday afternoon naps to get some extra rest. And if you are someone who knows me well, you know that I just don't take naps. I just have a hard time falling asleep if it's not dark outside. Maybe I just need blackout shades... I could definitely use more sleep. Anyway, just thought I should write something in my blog. I haven't written much lately. Oh, here's something new. Will and are are participating in a half day tennis tournament next Saturday. I'm doing the ladies tourney in the morning and then Will and I are participating in a Round Robin couples round in the afternoon. Should be fun. Oh, and Coleman has started his 2nd year of preschool. (I can't believe that he's headed to kindergarten next year!) Time flies, right? Oh, and Cooper is walking! He wobbles a lot but he's gettin' it. He'll be running any day now. Well, that's about it. Nitey-nite!