Sunday, November 22, 2009

It was a good Saturday

Yesterday was such a great Saturday. I got to sleep in with Adam til 9 o'clock, which never really happens. If you have ever heard of "For Every Body Outlet"-which is in Lindon. Every year around Thanksgiving they have a sale and you can get candles that are normally 6 dollars and up for like 2.50. My mom and I go every year, I always have to get the blackberry tart. It smells so so good. I love going there every year with my mom, and there is always so much I want to get but I have to limit myself so I don't spend a ton of money. ha ha I'm sure you all know how that is.

My sister-in-law is having a baby is February and I keep thinking of stuff that I could get her. Well I decided I really like Korker ribbon bows. So I search how to make them and I did it last night. I love making craft stuff! I think they turned out so good, and I could not stop making them. I even made more when I got home from church, because I decided they would make great Christmas gifts.
Three of the different ones I made last night.

Here is all the ones I made last night. I don't have pictures of the ones I did today.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

layoffs, and babysitting.

This weekend has been a little busy but full of fun for Adam and I. Just to rewind a little...last week Adam's brother Jon told him that Goodfellow(who Adam works for) was going to have layoffs soon. We didn't think it was actually going to happen because they have said it before and it never happens. Well they did they layoff 4 people in the shop, which now leave 4. Adam was not of them to get layoff, which I am so happy! Now that there is only 4 people in the shop Adam will be a little bit more busy at work.

Yesterday while I was at work my sister in law Dacie called me to see if we could watch her little girl Jocilynn. Of course we said yes, so from 5:30-9:30 we watched her while Dacie was at work. Dacie said that she had not had a nap that day and would probably fall asleep right after dinner...Boy she was wrong. She stayed up the whole time she was with us, we even pretended to be asleep in hopes that she would fall asleep....any who, we again watch her today. Surprise!...Darcie said that she did not sleep very well, I'm thinking it's Adam's fault because he kept being the nice uncle who gives kids candy. I kept hoping she was going to fall asleep all morning, but she didn't. Then 2 o' clock rolls and around and she wasn't playing like she normally would with us. So I picked her up and started to cuddle with her, and about 1-2 mins later she was out. YES! yahoo! I'm so happy she is taking a nap, maybe she will stay asleep til her mom gets here.

Well that's just a little update of our weekend. Now it's off to finishing laundry, and watching the horrible snow fall on my lawn. Bring on the cold!

Monday, November 2, 2009

The Birthday Cake

First off the only cake that I am really good at making is cheese cake. I have only make one other cake since being married and that was Adam's birthday cake that I made back in January...and my was the one who helped me make it. Anyway on with the story of the birthday cake...

.... So I was not going to put the cake I made for my niece Brielle's birthday. Only because it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. I had this great idea of what I wanted it to look like, which we all know when we do that, something always has to go wrong. Which it DID! Sunday I was frosting it and it just kept falling apart, and there ended up having cake bites in the frosting. Then I ran out of frosting, so I had to hurry and make some more, luckily I had an extra thing of cream cheese in the fridge. Then the frosting just was not doing what I wanted and I got to the point that I just gave up and left the room, and my wonderful husband finished frosting the cake for me. Which I am so happy for, because if he didn't I would have thrown the whole thing out and just went to store and got one. When I came back to finish the cake the tail part of the ghost was now starting to fall off. I couldn't take it any more. I wanted the cake to look so good, just because I was making it for someone I love.
Well I finished it, and I still was not happy at all how it turned out. I thought everyone would hate it, but I got just he opposite reaction from everyone. THEY LOVED IT! Brielle even told me she wanted to eat the head...and she did.
Adam come up with the boo-day part. As you can see the left arm is now falling off, but everyone loved it. It was a three layer cake...bottom:chocolate, middle: orange( I used food coloring), and the told layer was green(also done by food coloring and it was the layer that started all the problems.)