Sunflower Redemption

After the disaster of the flower pot cakes, I was feeling very uninspired for Mothers Day cake ideas. That is, until now. Aaaaahhhhh (in vibrato with lights from heaven).

And I absolutely love how the ladybugs turned out!

Clowning Around

This is my latest 1st birthday cake. The theme of the party was lolipops. You know, the big, colorful, swirly kind. I mostly went with the colors and did my own thing.

If at first you don't succeed...

...then it probably means that your idea was best as just that, an idea. You should leave it alone and move on. Whatever you do, do not waste your time and materials trying it all over again.

I had a great idea. I was going to make a cake that looked like a flower pot and put cake-pop flowers in it and have the cutest Mothers Day cake EVER! It was a no-brainer.

My attempt at a flower pot was an enormous disaster. It looks like a 6th grade art project gone bad.


Being the trooper that I am, I wasn't going to let that stop me. So I tried again. I did a lot better. This could maybe qualify as a 7th grade art project.

Soooo, if all goes as planned, 10 cakes from now and I'll have a wonderful college-grade flower pot.

Daddy's Girl

It has begun.

Follow the Prophet

This year in Primary we are learning Follow the Prophet. I wanted to do a verse for Thomas S. Monson but an internet search was curiously fruitless. So I did it myself.

Thomas Spencer Monson teaches us the way,
with his many stories of his younger days
visiting the widows, helping Germany
wiggling his ears and reading poetry.

I am really excited to teach it next week!

Monkey Business

Many of you know that I sell my wares at a boutique in the fall. The organizers decided to start a spring boutique this year and have agree to let me sell my cakes there.

I am now building my portfolio and you get to see tham all first.

P.S. It's banana cake with banana frosting and filling. :)

Raloose

Emma is a big talker. She sits in her crib every morning talking to herself and, when poopy, yells "Stinky Yucky!!!"

All of her words, if not perfect, are at least recognizable, or referencable. For example, Emma calls her belly button her "bing bong". This makes sense to us becuase we poke her in the belly and say "bing bong".

However, there is one word we just can't figure out. We know to what she is referring, but have no idea where the word came from. Raloose (pronounced ra' . loos) means water. When we tell her to say water, she clearly annunciates the word "water". But whenever she wants water, or more often, some of your water, she calls it "raloose". She know and correctly uses the words drink, milk, and juice, and water is always raloose. I have been trying for weeks to figure out where this came from. Ice? Ice water? Thirsty? I can't think of anything sounding remotely like raloose.

Can anyone help me figure this out?