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!

A-Z tag

Jennifer tagged me on this so here we go...

A: ATTACHED OR SINGLE? Very happily attached!

B: BEST FRIEND? Mark!

C: CAKE OR PIE? hmmm... probably pie, I love pecan pie

D: DAY OF CHOICE? It's a tie between Saturday and Sunday. Saturdays are fun days with Mark and Sundays are church and then laidback, relaxful days with Mark.

E: ESSENTIAL ITEM? Mark...? Yeah, I'd say Mark

F: FAVORITE COLOR? Blue

G: GUMMY BEARS OR WORMS? Gummy Bears are the best

H: HOMETOWN? Overton, NV

I: INDULGENCE? Papa John's Pizza with Pepperoni, Italian Sausage, and Black Olives. Mark makes fun of me 'cause I don't ever finish my food except for when we have pizza, I could eat the whole pizza myself.

J: JANUARY OR JULY? July in Denver, winter here is horrible but I love the winter down in St. George.

K: KIDS? not yet

L: LIFE ISN'T COMPLETE WITHOUT? Mark and the rest of my family

M: MARRIAGE DATE? April 6, 2007

N: NUMBER OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS? 2 brothers and 2 sisters but with Mark's family 5 brothers and 3 sisters

O: ORANGES OR APPLES? Yumm, I think it's a toss up

P: PHOBIAS? Mark dying, spiders, getting smashed by a diesel truck.

Q: QUOTE? I have lots but one that I can think of right now is, "Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved." President Thomas S. Monson

R: REASON TO SMILE? Mark, he is always giving me reasons to smile!

S: SEASON OF CHOICE? I really like the fall and winter

U: UNKNOWN FACT ABOUT ME? I'm in the process of learning portuguese

V: VEGETABLE? potatoes

W: WORST HABIT?I sometimes tend to let silly little things seem bigger than they really are.

X: X-RAY OR ULTRASOUND? I haven't had either one

Y: YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? pizza and potatoes oh and Mark's bacalhau

Z: ZODIAC SIGN? Leo

Christmas!

So we've been excitedly getting ready for Christmas! It's my favorite time! We have our tree, stockings, and nativity up. We have all our presents wrapped except for the couple that we are waiting for in the mail, and our stockings are even stuffed! Yesterday Mark and I made sugar cookies together and last week we made a rice krispie house (instead of a ginger bread house 'cause Mark loves rice krispies). This year I made an advent calendar. I found a bunch of Christmas stories, rolled them up and stuffed them in the pockets so we could have a story for every day in December.

Oh, and I did end up getting that haircut. It's super short and I absolutely love it! I'll have to put a picture up sometime soon.

Anyway, here are a few pictures of our December decorations and doings:

Fun Stuff To Look Forward To!

I'm getting so excited! There is so much that we are looking forward to! Mark's birthday is tomorrow! He's turning 25. I got him some fun stuff that I know he's going to love! I just happened to get that day off of work because my employer had it off. So tomorrow I'll get to spend all day with him. We're going to Rodizio Grill again of course because it's his favorite.

On Saturday we are leaving to go down to St. George and Overton to visit our families! I can't wait! I miss them so much and it's going to be great to just have a whole week at home. We'll be eating two Thanksgiving dinners so we can be with both families. It's a good thing that I LOVE mashed potatoes! We are going to spend two nights in Mesquite, just the two of us. That's going to be really nice seeing as we don't get very much alone time now that we are living with Mark's dad.

Also when we go down I'm going to get my haircut super short. I've had it pretty short for awhile and I've loved it. I've always wanted it really really short though so unless I chicken out, which is very possible, this is how I want it. I think it's way cute!

Batman and The Tales of Beedle the Bard come out on December 4th so of course we're totally siked about that!

I think it's mostly the season that's got me so excited and jittery! I love this time of year!To me Thanksgiving and Christmas are happy, full of love, and time spent with family and friends! I'm huge into Christmas and everything about it. Cheese balls from the mall, driving around and looking at the lights, looking at the temple with all of it's lights, decorations, Christmas tree, stockings, a new ornament(Mark and I decided to but one new ornament every year, we are doing snowmen) hot chocolate, christmas music (it's one of my favorite parts), being with family, yummy smelling candles, family traditional games and activities on Christmas Eve, advent calendars, 12 days of Christmas, giving presents and seeing the joy that it brings to loved ones, I just love it all!