the cake

The finished cake
The mess
Home made vanilla strawberry buttercream icing
Dyed fondant
Marshmallow fondant

How could i forget the most important pic?! The cake!

April's Birthday Bash

Moment of hilarity
Ole buddies
cool guy


Chris in one of his finer moments...
Yummmmyyyy!

Colorful drinks-we all tried something new. Except prego of course.

Well I think fun was had by all this weekend in honor of April's birthday. Here are a few pics. Some how I didn't get any pics of Sunday night except for the cake. Bummer. I always seem to do that. I loved the cake. I searched around online for ideas, found a fantastic fondant recipe (that actually didn't taste bad), made the cake & icing from scratch & did all the art work myself. I was pretty pleased with how it turned out. It was a really fun learning experience & I've been dying to play with fondant for a while. I think over all I use 6 pounds of powdered sugar. 6 sticks of butter, 3 pounds of marshmallows & a big bottle of tums. Ha! I didn't even eat any of the cake at the party. I was so sick of tasting & testing I didn't even want to smell it. Although I must admit it smelled pretty nice. It was a vanilla layer cake with strawberry preserves between layers and vanilla strawberry buttercream icing between the cake & the marshmallow fondant. Whoa! Make your tummy ache thinking about it? Me too! Well April adores her birthday & looks forward to it all year & I love that about her. She always has a way of making holidays so special & I am inspired by that. So Happy birthday April-hope it was a good one!

Vintage Photos

A "Vintage Photographer" accosted me at Sam's one day & I succomed (he was very cheap-how could I resist?) So here they are. The photographer was a grumpy bald guy & he wasn't very patient with us. Joss didn't want to have anything to do with Trip. So we could only get pics of them individually that day. She also wouldn't keep on her precious hat or beads. So then her hair was down-which we never do & the photog wouldn't give me time to fix it! But she still look slike a little angel I think. Trip was about 4 months

& 3 weeks old & Joss about 22 months.

Caught!

Here is Grant, caught in a tender moment with Joss-busted. We always knew he was a secret softy. He & Joss were trying to get Kitty Cat to come over to them. It was so cute. They just sat out there bonding for a long while. Good Job "Gant"-Jossi loves you.

(The photos are fuzzy because it was getting dark outside.)

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