Happy Birthday...

To a special little girl in my neighborhood... Our prayers are with you, Annalynn.

My Pretty, Pretty Princess

Lizzy wanted me to take a picture of her in her princess dress that Namma made for her...it got a little out of hand. I just couldn't stop snapping pictures of my baby girl. :)

The Thing I Like About Spring...

Is my garden and the anticipation of FRESH vegetables and herbs.... Can't you just smell this picture!? This is one of my 4 tomato plants already coming into bloom. I can't wait to harvest them all summer long!!

My First Wedding!

This past week, I got to do a cupcake tower for my cousin's open-house reception down in Spanish Fork. It was very casual and the colors were royal blue and sage green. I wasn't given any direction so this was the result.

My sister, Ashley, was visiting me and thank-goodness she was there to help me! We cut out and assembled 200 flowers!! We also had to do 200 leaves too. People don't realize what a process it is dealing with fondant. You have to color it just the right color, roll it out over and over, and you have to make sure the flowers or fondant doesn't dry out before you have time to even finish cutting all the flowers out. It took both of us about 2 days to do it all. I don't think I could have done it without her. I had a blast, however hanging out with her. The piping detail on the top cake was really fun to do too.

Please don't mind the crude cupcake stand. I am in the process of building a new one. I think what bugged me so much about mine is that the spacers between the boards were too high. This is what I want my new one to look like:

Mom's 60th B-day Bash

We threw a 60th birthday bash for my Mom and evidently, I was in charge of the cake. I wasn't too happy with it. I liked the two pices seperatly by not together. I was also wondering what it would have looked like if the stripes were silver instead of gold. My sister has all the pictures from the party but you can view them on whitmanclan.blogspot.com if you feel so inclined. I'll post some on this site as soon as I get them from her.

Cupcake Mania

I made SO many cupcakes this weekend! The first ones were "Thank You" cupcakes that I made for all my friends that helped me when I went to the hospital the other week. I delivered them in cute little cupcake boxes that I bought at the craftstore that are made by Wilton.

The second ones were for a memorial day BBQ, of course.

Ryan's new bed...

Jacob made Ryan a bed this weekend and it turned out to be so amazing. He made him a bunk bed that looks like a tree-house. I'm going to paint branches and leaves on the wall and even put some fake leaves and branches around the bed to create a 3-D effect. I'm gonna paint clouds on the ceiling too. Jacob is so talented. Ryan LOVES his new bed.