A little cake for a little boy...

It was my friend's little boy's 1st birthday so I made him a little 6 inch cake. He is the cutest little thing ever. The teddy bear was fun to make out of fondant.

I left my heart in California...

This past weekend Jacob and I took a trip to Cali since we were alredy half way there when we were in St. George for Jacob's business trip. It's always very bitter sweet going down there. I love to see my sisters and love to be back in Temecula but it breaks my heart when I have to leave. It gets worse every time. I need to move back there. Jacob and I had a serious talk on the way home about moving back. I think I've slipped into a depression here in Utah. I have zero motivation to do anything up here. It's just not home. I can't figure it out either. There is no reason that I shouldn't be happy here. I have a beautiful home, amazing friends and an awesome town. But it's not home... Driving down the streets of Temecula I kept thinking..."This is pure Heaven." I have so many great memories and so much close family and friends down there. It was 73 degrees the entire time! I am truly a California girl. I want to move back more than anything in the world. Jacob and I are going to make a game plan for moving back when he gets back from St. George. It will probably take a couple years since we have to wait for the housing market to drop some more. It's on it's way down right now. By then we will be able to sell our home and he can look into getting a job down there. I just have to keep positive until then...

My beautiful sisters...well, most of them.We are missing 4.

At brunch with my best girlfriends!

Lizzy and her Auntie Violet

My beautiful sister in law, Veronica...so lovely

My hot hubby and me. Notice the new do thanks to my awesome sister in law, Camie. Thanks, Cam!

How fun..

So every month the girls and I get together for an evening of dinner and a game of BUNCO. So fun. We all look forward to it every time. This month was my night to host. I went with the "Girls Night Out theme". We had a menu of "chick food" (as Jacob calls it) that consisted of soup in bread bowls, salad, cheese and crackers, shrimp, and fun pink and black cupcakes (which I forgot to take pics of...darn it... :( Instead of paying $6.50 a month for prizes, we just purchase the prizes when it is our night to host. For prizes, I got a gift certificate from a super cute shoe store in the mall (of course!), a gift certificate for a pedicure, movie tickets for a "chick flick" and a Mary Kay eye make-up remover, mascara and eyeliner package. For the tables, I had black tablecloths, pink plates, little shopping bag place savers filled with chocolate and a nail file along with martini glasses in the middle filled with yummy chocolate. So fun. Everyone should have a girls night out once in a while...

A little blogging game...

So...a little blogging game...This one involves getting free stuff. I got this off Katie's blog. She owes me a handmade gift. The first three people to leave a comment on my blog will receive a handmade gift from me. You will not get it tomorrow and probably not even next week, but you'll get it within the year. Here's the catch...if you want to get free stuff, you have to pay it forward and make the same promise on your blog. (You must have a blog to participate.) So if you want to get something from me, you have to give to three people. Who's it gonna be? Since I'm not the crafty type (unless you are in the area and want a cake...) here's what I'm offering...You can send me a cd or e-mail me a bunch of your photos and some song requests(from a fun trip, birthday party or whatever...) and I can make you a fun video of it so that you can watch it from time to time instead of opening a scrap book.

St. George is great...

So we are up in St. George on a business trip with Daddy. Ryan loves going to the job site with his Dad and we are having a great time hanging out in the hotel, going to the pool, using the gym and going out to dinner. Yeah! A whole 2 weeks without cleaning, cooking or doing dishes! We even saw the St. George temple. It was gorgeous. I'm sure there will be more to come. (It's raining now so I'm couped up in the hotel. I'll be online a lot...) If all goes well, we might even be able to visit Cali for about 5 days or so. We'll have to see how Jacob's job is going though.

For Namma...

Here is Lizzy opening her present from you. She loved it & loved wearing it to her party. Thanks Namma.

I can't believe she's 5 !!!

Lizzy had a birthday so that means birthday cake, of course! This one is acutally out of fondant (but of course, I don't like the taste of fondant, so I iced it normally underneath.) Jacob is my "muscle" and kneeded and rolled out all the fondant for me. (It was Wilton Fondant so it was hard to roll out, of course) Everything except for the pearls at the bottom of her skirt and the "sea weed" behind her is edible. Lizzy & I had fun making all the shells and flowers the night before out of gumpaste and then painted them with food coloring. I think the clam with the pearl was her favorite. Anyway, hope you enjoy the cake pics Brittany. Lizzy loved it.

Daddy took the day off of work to be with Lizzy on her birthday. We started the day with the traditional "Blueberry Bannana Pancakes", then gave her a new bike complete with a basket and streamers. After that, she went to Wal-Mart to pick out the Barbie for her cake. We also rented the "Barbie Island Princess" movie (from wich the cake was inspired) and came home and watched that together. She helped me finish decorating the cake then we went to Wal-Mart again because we forgot the graham crackers (to smash and put around the cake as sand) and stopped of at McDonalds for a birthday lunch. She then took a very long, very late nap so she could stay up for the New Year's Eve party that we were going to later that night. We got up, got ready in her new birthday dress from Namma and took the cake with us. She had a blast with all her friends and we got to sing Happy Birthday to her. She told me this morning that she "loved her Birthday." Thanks so much everyone for all the birthday wishes and Birthday cards!