As Promised

As promised. This is the birthday cake that I made a few weeks ago for a church friend. It took me awhile to get this picture up but I finally did. This cake didn't take me long to make it. I baked the cake the night before and decorated it the day of. And it is a chocolate cake, yum, yum!

I'm Back

It's been quite a long time since I've blogged. I just haven't been in the mood, either that or I can't get to it because my now 2 year old keeps me from doing anything personal. It's been a crazy couple of months. I made a wedding cake for a dear friend of mine from college and they liked it so much that her sister has asked me to make her wedding cake as well. I'm still contemplating doing hers. I was also asked to make a birthday cake for someone in my Ward, which I absolutely loved doing. I have lots of pictures to get up here to show those of you who read my blog. But I will start with the wedding cake that I made back in August.




I made a sheet cake, a 4 tier cascading cake, and a grooms cake. The sheet cake and the wedding cake were yellow cake with a strawberry filling and some had a chocolate genoshe filling. The grooms cake was chocolate with a chocolate genoshe filling. The grooms cake was lots of fun. My friends now husband was a Marine for 4 years and he collects old war helmets. The grooms cake I made was a replica of one of the WWII hats he had re-painted himself. I copied all of the colors and his pattern and he loved it. The flowers on the wedding cake were ALL edible. It took a very long time to make those calla lillies and roses by hand. But the end result was worth it. It was worth all of the time I took to make this cake just to see how happy they were with the end result. All of the cakes had buttercream icing and the wedding cake also had a basket weave pattern with violet intertwined, which of course I did on my own. It took me a total of 4 days to make the 6 cakes. The first day I baked all of the cakes (the wedding cake was 2 layers each). Then it took me a day and a half to make all of those flowers and another day and a half to decorate. I will put up the birthday cake I made next time as well as some Halloween photo's of my little girl.

Cat for Sale

Ok there is no cat for sale but I have learned that I need to keep Allison's door closed whenever we are not in her room. This is the second day in a row that Cassidy's cat has pee-pee'd on Allison's bed. I'm starting to get angry and there may not be a cat when Cassi gets home from school one day. I'm just saying. I think Cassi thinks it's funny, she says the cat is jealous because Allison gets her own room and the cat doesn't. She's a cat, she claims everything and she's not trained so she goes to the bathroom everywhere. So I'm washing Allison's bedding again, and from now on her door stays closed. Unless she's asleep in there, then I keep it open.
In other news, I've started the process of teaching Allison to sleep in her own room. Right now she falls asleep laying on the floor next to me in her room and then I trasfer her to her bed. But the first couple of nights she cried and screamed for anyone but me for 2-3 hours. Last night she only cried and screamed for 45 minutes until she gave up. But she does not sleep through the night. Does anyone else have an almost 2 year old who wakes up 2-4 times a night? I do not understand why she does this. I do play soft classical music in her room most of the night and I keep a fan running on low for the white noise and I keep a night light on in her room all night long. These things seem to help. My next step is getting her to fall asleep in her new bed and not on the floor next to me. That will be a difficult thing to do. The funny thing is that Jason has been wanting Allison out of our room for over a year now and now that I'm doing it he misses her. Who'd of thunk that I would be the strong one and Jason would be the soft one. At night when Allison cries she calls for dada and if daddy happens to come in to the room he will take her out and into our room which defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to accomplish. Maybe this time next week Allison will be falling asleep without me lying next to her.
Does anyone have any advice on getting Allison to sleep without me lying next to her?? Or should I just close the door and let her scream and cry until she tires herself out?? Feedback would be nice:) Until next time....

Moving Day Come and Gone

Well, Moving day has come and gone. Thank you to everyone who came to help us move. The last few weeks have been crazy. I packed the house and we moved less than a week ago. So far I've got my daughters room set up and the kitchen is completely un-packed. I never knew how much stuff you can accumulate in the course of 2 years. We've still got a whole lot to un-pack. But things are starting to look a little better.

Feed the Starving Children

Today I went to our Wards service project. I throughly enjoyed the experience. We filled bags of nutritioal food (Chicken, Veggies, Soy, and Rice). There were the fillers, who filled the bags with the food, then there were the baggers who held the bags under the funnel to get filled. Then there was the closer (the person who sealed the bag-my job) and the boxer. Our table filled 15 boxes in total in a little over an hour!!! Way to go team!! I reccommend that anyone who is given the opportunity to serve this non-profit organization to do so! You could feel the spirit in the room, it was wonderful!

Accident Prone

I've come to the conclusion that Allison is accident prone. We had to take Allison to the ER a week ago and she was just at the ER two months before that. She has now had two nursemaid's elbows. Easy fix, takes all of 2 seconds. But what happens is her arm bone pops out of her elbow and the ligament flatens and the bone can't get back into place. So we've got to take her to the doctor (ER in this case because it seems to happen when the doctors are closed). But all is well! She's also got two scabs on each knee from falling on the pavement. What am I going to do with her?

In other news, we are moving down the street at the end of this month! The bedrooms are a little bigger, and Allison gets her very own bedroom!!! Cassi and I are decorating the room. But now's the hard part. Going through several days of crying at night until she is able to sleep alone and soothe herself back to sleep. But we will get through it. I've got the baby blue's and I've been thinking about wanting another child. But that will not happen anytime soon. Maybe someday in the future.

My birthday was last week and I got a receipe book for cupcakes!!! I decorate cakes and cupcakes. I also got Wii Resort and a cupcake tower. My family likes cupcakes over cakes and I hate to tell them but cupcakes are just small versions of cakes. I've already made a snickerdoodle cupcake with 7 minute frosting! yum yum!!

I've got some packing to start and some painting to do. We are going to paint Allison's dresser, a wooden cat and dog, and a wooden sign that says princess and letters to spell out Allison. I've still got a little bit of shpping to do. A toy chest for Allison and curtains for her room as well. I figure she doesn't need that much stuff, she's got tons upon tons of toys!! I've got some pictures of a cake I made that I will put up in my next blog. I've also got a cake to make for the August birthdays at Jasons work. So until next time, bloggers!

Princess Potty

This is her Princess Potty except that it's pink and not blue
Well to those of you who read this blog I need some advice. First of all Allison has been telling us for a few weeks now when she's stinky or wet and needs to be changed. Yesterday morning she pointed to her diaper and said stinky, but she wasn't stinky. But what she was telling me was that she needed to go to the bathroom before she went to the bathroom. She went peepee right after she told me she needed to. So I figured that was enough signs for me to get her a potty. So when I was at Target I got her a Princess Potty, that plays music when you go to the bathroom and you can use it as a step stool and move it to the regular toliet. So here's my question, to those of you with girls. How do I start teaching her how to go to the bathroom on the potty?? I do not know what to do. My mother in law told me to put her on the potty when she's about ready to poop because that is the easiest sign to recognise first. But how do you get them to start going potty in it?? Right now I take off her diaper and sit her on it and ask her to potty if she needs to. I've also been putting her on the potty with the diaper off when I go to the bathroom. I've heard that doing this helps them understand because mommy is doing it. But I do not know if she knows that that is what I am doing. Now she is only 22 months old. So if anyone has any advice please feel free to write it on here or call me to talk to me about it!