New Cakes

Work at the bakery has been busy but I am loving it!! It is so much fun and it is exactly what I want to be doing. I love going into work everyday. For those of you who haven't made it over there yet, you should definitely make a trip over and check it out. It is the cutest little shop. The word about us is getting out there and we have a lot of fun things that we are planning.

I haven't done any really amazing cakes there yet but I do have some coming up in the next couple of months. Also I'll be finishing up one for tomorrow that should be cute.

Here are the ones that I've made at home over the past few months.

Jennifer and Chris's Anniversary Cake

Mother's Day cakes

Father's Day Cakes

Wedding Cake

I'll be making my first wedding cake tomorrow. Yikes! I'm nervous but so so excited! It's not only my first wedding cake but also my first cake made at The Sweet Tooth Fairy Bakery. I'm praying everything will go perfectly because it really needs to be perfect.

Slight change of plans....

Today I got a job at a new bakery that is opening up here in St. George!! I will be working as the head baker and cake consultant at the Sweet Tooth Fairy Bakery. I will be decorating cupcakes, baking cookies, meeting with people to help them design their cakes and decorating them too.  I'm am very excited, it will be the perfect job for me! The owners are so nice and friendly and it is going to be a great experience for me and I'm hoping to learn a lot!

This does mean that I can no longer advertise my own cakes. One day I will have my own business where I will be able to share my own yummy cakes with you but until then go check out the Sweet Tooth Fairy Bakery! http://www.thesweettoothfairy.com/ They will be having their grand opening on Saturday, May 29th. If you can make it, come drop in and maybe you'll see me baking away : ).

All Buttercream Cake

This is my sister's birthday cake that I made earlier this month. The whole thing is made out of buttercream, including the flowers.

Cakes!

Wow, I am so not good at keeping my blog up to date! It's been over a year since I've posted anything. I have however been keeping up with everyone else and their lives : ).

So, just a quick recap about the past year for us.
- We moved back to St. George! We love it and are so happy to be home and close to family again! We live in the same condo's that we lived in before we left for Denver just three doors down. Lol! How funny life is sometimes.
- I've been working on cakes and am loving that too! I've made some for family and it's been really great practice for me. I hope to someday soon go to the Wilton School in Chicago to take some classes. So far these are the ones that I have made.

These were my first attempt at decorating cake! I made these mini cakes for a friend at my work who was having a Lia Sophia jewelery party. They are supposed to look like little jewelery boxes.


This one was for Mark's brother Jeff. We made it for his missionary farewell. He is serving in Chile.




Mark's birthday cake and matching birthday card made out of felt!






My sister Shealyn's topsy turvy birthday cake.





My niece, Macey's tinkerbell birthday cake. The flowers hung off the cake as well.




My sister in law, Brittney's birthday cake. The B and polka dots all went on the cake.





Lastly, football cake balls that I made for my family's super bowl party.



My next cake I'm going to make will be for my sister Tiffanie at the beginning of April. Her's will be a challenge though because instead of fondant, this time I'm going to make it completely out of icing. So it will have to be perfectly smooth and I'll get to practice making a bunch of different icing flowers.

New Job!

Today was my first day at my new job! I am a teacher's assistant at a private preschool called Primrose. It was so much fun and I'm really excited! I trained this morning and went and got my fingerprints and then after lunch with my awesome hubby and I worked in the young toddler's room for the rest of the day until I got off at six. I don't know with which age I'll be working with for sure but it doesn't really matter to me. It's going to be such a good job for me and for us. I'll have paid holidays, 11 days paid vacation, and we will finally be able to have insurance again! Plus it's really close, it's takes 10 minutes to get there. The other employees are so nice and friendly and it's what I really want to do. The requirements to be a lead teacher or group leader here in Colorado are so rigid, especially compared to down in St. George. I apply and was accepted to be a lead teacher at 2 different child care facilities down there (neither worked out since back then we were moving around so much.) but here you have to have X amount of college credits and hours of experience in a child care setting. So since I'm not going to be going to school anytime soon, (we need to work on getting Mark through first.) this is great for the time being. So I've finally found the full time job that I've been looking so hard for.

Our Christmas

I know it's late but here are some pictures of our Christmas.

This was our cute table.



Christmas Eve Dinner.

Mark's dad got us this new HD TV.

Haha, as you can tell, Mark made opening presents a blast!



Just me.

We missed home and our families but we had a great and happy Christmas!