Cade's Barnyard Birthday

And now, here are the late pictures of Cade's birthday. We had a fun night with family. We started off with a seafood boil--yum! Then we had cake and presents. His cake was a lot of fun to make also. It was a fondant cake and everything on it was edible. I had a lot of fun making the animals out of fondant. The little ladybugs and bees turned out really cute, and Cade couldn't wait to pop one into his mouth. Unfortunately, as you can see, one of the sheep was a little too heavy for the side and ended up tearing the side of the cake. I also had to rush on the border. I wanted to pipe some grass for the border, but I ran out of time and frosting, so I attempted to make a super fast "grass-like" border out of leftover fondant--I'm not impressed with it. Oh well, it was still a really cute and delicious cake! Plus, we had a lot left over to eat for the 4th.

Cowboy Connor's Birthday

So, I'm quite late with this post. This was Connor's Cowboy birthday. It was a lot of fun! I had a really good time making his fondant covered cake. It took so much time to make! Everything was edible. I wish I had a picture from the night before when I put it together; it was much perkier than in these pictures. The heat had started to get to it, and it was starting to melt and lean. I actually sculpted the two horse heads out of modeling chocolate. The cowboy boots and the cowboy hat were made out of rice krispies treats and covered with fondant. The hay bale was made out of peanut butter chips and crunchy chow mein noodles. Connor had such a good time. We had a cowboy campfire and hotdogs. We also invited Cowboy Jim and Cowgirl Kay, and we had Matthew over to spend the night. What a fun night!

ASC Graduation

Here are just a couple of pictures from my graduation in May.

Random Pictures

Delicious Milky Way Darks!

Thanks for the candy stash Krystal! Can you tell that somebody found the sweet treats? Actually there were two other culprits (Christopher & Connor--not to mention any names), but Cade was the messiest!

One of the best sounds in the world!

Christopher has been growing up so much lately that it seems he is a young man rather than a young boy. Of course with that comes work and responsibility which means that I don't hear him playing with the younger boys like I used to. But, tonight when I walked by his room to lay little sleeping Caylee down in her crib, I heard a sound that was instantly heaven on earth. It was the sound of pure laughter coming from Christopher's room. He was in there throwing Connor and Cade on his bed, and the three of them were laughing so hard. I absolutely LOVE that sound. I have been a little down about our kids growing up so fast, which has been brought on by Christopher changing over night. It seemed like I went to bed one night tucking in my little boy to waking up to a young man with a deep voice, hairy armpits, broad shoulders, muscle tone, and shaving---yes shaving. Where did my little boy go? Sometimes I wish I could freeze time and move my family to a deserted island where the bad things of the world can't find us and I can continually hear the sounds of my kids playing together--one of the best sounds in the world!