Letter to Non-Believers

If you are consider yourself Not a Believer, or don't know what it means to be a 'believer,' please take a few minutes to read THIS. My friend, Josh, posted it to his blog and it is totally worth reading.

Heading out to tiering/stacking and fondant covering lesson of my cake class ... tomorrow I should have pics of Ella's stacked castle cake! Check back!

50th Birthday Cake

The idea I had didn't quite work out for this cake. I was thinking multicolored striped fondant with a big bow in the middle. Here's the start to that idea:


Just wasn't looking like what I had envisioned. So at 11pm, after 2.5 hours coloring, rolling, cutting, & placing the fondant strips I pulled each & every one off & started with a clean slate.

The cake is chocolate fudge with dark chocolate ganache filling. The decorating is done with vanilla whipped cream frosting, fondant pieces, and some hand painting.




Natalie's favorite Bible verse from the NLT is piped around the fondant ribbon.





















"Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need & thank Him (for all He has done.)" That last little phrase didn't quite fit.

Here's an up close of the hand painted leaves, stems, & flower centers:




And one of the little bouquette of fondant cut out flowers.




It's 3:14am, time for bed! Ella & Bren have early doctor appointments at 8:30AM! It's going to be a long Tuesday!

-- Posted from my iPhone

Beetle Chaser Cake

A dear friend got married this past weekend & tomorrow during our discipleship study group we are having a little party for her. What's a party without a cake?! This is probably the most daring of flavors I've attempted, we'll know if it was good or not tomorrow morning! The cakes are butterpecan flavored with pecan & dark chocolate filling. The white & green decorating are rum buttercream flavored frosting & the dark colors are dark chocolate flavored.

Basketweaved different flavors.



Some grass for the top.


And what in the world is up there?!


Gina is a self proclaimed 'beetle chaser' and we love her little chases! They usually are quite good pondering/explaining points!


So yes, that's a beetle ontop of the beautiful cake!


Creepy, but hopefully yummy!




Just in case you thought cakes have consumed my life, fear not; my kids are still alive & goofy as ever!


We're just getting to the end of Bren's fascination with his ...


Can you guess what he's going to say?! "Butt Quack" has been his favorite word & place to insert his finger lately. We've been washing lots of hands!


Mr. Laugh Out Loud is as smiley & happy as a 5 month old with a bad diaper rash & 2 new teeth can be.


Miss Ella McBella loves to be mommy's little helper - mixing & stirring whenever possible!

And every day I'm reminded how blessed I am to have a caring & wonderful man as my husband! He helped with dishes this week, brought our dingy bath towels back to life, and has been the world's best daddy lately. I love that I can count on him to jump into every parenting challenge head first & make me feel supported & loved! Who knew an almost 4 year old could be so sassy? Sometime between homecoming and fire and ice dance time this year will mark 10 years together ... a whole decade ... feeling old, but more in love every day & thankful my bowling ball head boyfriend is now my husband & father of my kiddos! LU5E


-- Sent from my iphone