New Cakes & Crafts

I put up a bunch of new cakes on my cake page and a couple of new crafts on my craft page so go check them out!!

Birthday!

I'm a couple of weeks late but my birthday was great! I had such a blast. We went to north to Provo just so that we could eat at Rodizio Grill. Yumm! We also went and saw Despicable Me in 3D. We've seen it twice now because it quickly become one of my new favs. 

for my birthday, I got this awesome new radio/stereo for my car. My old one had been on the outs for quite awhile.

Along with it I got a holder for my Iphone so  I can play it through the stereo and a few really cute shirts. Mark was such a sweetheart and he went shirt shopping with me. 

He also made me this totally awesome cake all by himself!

 Didn't he do an amazing job? Here's proof that he really made it.

The reason it's a giraffe for all who don't know, giraffes are my absolute favorite and always have been. One day I'll have to share with you my enormous collection of all things giraffe.

This last picture is just because it makes me smile :)

My sweetie being Mario.

Wedding Cake and Baby Shower Cake

 These were last weeks cakes. The baby shower cake was a lot of fun to make.

Thursday & Friday's Meals

On Thursday we had Lasagna Roll-Ups and No-Knead Dinner Rolls.

I have never been successful with yeast unless I can just toss it in the breadmaker so I was a little hesitant about trying my hand at home made rolls again. I'm really glad I gave it a shot though. This roll recipe was great for me because it gave me an exact temperature that my liquid needed to be heated to. So I was so excited to see my rolls overflowing from the muffin tin :). The only problem I had with them is that they got a little too brown... the recipe is from my boss who is from Spanish Fork, UT and apparently things cook a little faster down here than up there. They still tasted good though.

Last night we had Baked Taquitos and Cinnamon Rolls. Again I was a little scared about the yeast but it worked out great and I think I'm going to make more for tomorrow.

I didn't take pictures again... I prefer blogs that put up pictures of what things look like so I'll try and make sure to get pictures here on out.

Anyway give them a try and if you do try any let me know what you think. They are all posted on my Recipes Page.

This afternoon, we cheated and ate at Cafe Rio with Mark's family. Afterward we went and saw Inception. I wasn't a huge fan. It was pretty interesting but I don't do well watching stressful movies, which this one was and the last 45 minutes I couldn't wait for it to just be over. The way they ended it was frustrating to me too because it was left kind of hanging so then, I wanted it to keep going so it would just be finished. In any case, it was still fun to get out for the day.

New and Old Recipes

Last night I made my mom's Honey Oat Bread in my bread maker. To go with it I made some honey butter and some raspberry honey butter. My favorite was the raspberry and Mark liked the normal honey butter best but they were both so yummy! 

Today was our first day of our pact to eat in. I made Honey Lime Chicken Enchiladas. I really liked the flavor of the chicken. I forgot to cover the enchiladas with tin foil though and the tortillas came out a little crunchy but they were still satisfying. I also made some cocoa brownie bites for dessert. I've made these a couple times before and I think it's my favorite homemade brownie recipe that I've had. I really like how they taste but they are very rich.

I forgot to take pictures of everything but all the recipes are posted on my Recipes Page.   :)

My brother is coming home!

YAY!! My brother J.D. is coming home from his mission in Ohio on August 6th. His flight comes in around 4:40 that afternoon. We are all so excited to see him! August 6th happens to be my dad's birthday too so we are going to have a big party with all of us and there will be lots and lots of cake! :)

J.D.

We have been in a bad habit of eating out almost everyday... It just seems so much easier seeing as there is just the two of us. We also thought that it was cheaper.... oh how wrong we were. We decided that it was time that we tried making our own meals here at home. I bought enough food for about 12 different meals and we'll be able to make each one twice. I tried to make it so that the things that I bought could be used for more than one or two meals. It ended up coming out to be less then $5 dollars per meal for the two of us together! Wow! They aren't just hamburger helpers either. ;)  Each meal looks really yummy and they are new. I found all the recipes from different blogs. So as we try out each one I'll post up the recipes if they turn out to be as good as they look.

Brownies, Etsy, and 7 eleven

The Sweet Tooth Fairy Bakery is doing great! This morning I made some ultimate brownie. YUM! We had strawberry cream cheese, chocolate cream cheese, and peanut butter chocolate.

For about 6 months I've been working on setting up an Etsy Store. I have my account all ready, now it's just a matter of getting some things up to sell. One of them will be felt cards like the one I made for Mark...

 These bracelets...

I also have something else that I'm really excited about that I'll have ready soon hopefully.

This is a gumpaste sheet that I made to place on top of my father-in-laws birthday cake balls. Yesterday was his birthday, 7-11 hence the 7 eleven logo :) I made chocolate in chocolate cake balls, red velvet in white chocolate and coconut in white chocolate.