Winning cookies??

More cookies, this time for baseball season. I noticed these popcorn bags in my cupboard, I thought they matched so nicely, so I added them to the cookies. I so still feel self concious giving them out, like all the moms are looking at me thinking I am an overachiever. Well I am not an overachiever and I was getting a little stressed out becuase I waited until the last minutes. THEN one mom came and told me her7 year old son said "mom, theses aren't just any treats, these are WINNERS treats". awww how adorable. It was all worth it right there!

Finding Nemo Cake

I made this for my neighbor Lucas. He LOVES NEMO. I made this before for Chase, but we perfected it this time. Above is Lukeee, and Rawlin enjoying the, as Rawlin pronounces it, Meo cake. 2 Terrific 2 year olds.

bake a rectangle cake, dump upside down, and cool. The whole center stuck to the pan, but it really doesn't matter, a fish is not flat anyway right? I pieced it back as much as I can. If you are in a hurry, put it in the freezer for 30 minutes before cutting off the corners.

I ended up using some frosting to piece the tail fin together to make it the right shape and size.

My mom and sister have both been professional wedding cake decorators. A very big tip is to keep a bowl or glass of water nearby to dip your knife in.

First spread plenty of frosting on it. Then go back over it with a thinner layer, cleaning off the knife every few strokes and wetting it. This is how you cover up the crumbs from the cake that get in the first layer. That is also why you need to keep the knife clean and wet, to get rid of crumbs and frosting that is starting to dry.

I used another clean knife to go over top of the orange with some white for the stripes. You have to be flexible and let the frosting decide how the shape of the stripe is going to be. The eye and dark lines are out of dark chocolate brownie topping that was bought at the store.

I think he is so cute.

Baby shower

Saturday was a Busy busy day. Here are the Elmo cupcakes we made for Rawlins 2nd Birthday. The eyes are a peanut M&M lucky I had white ones left over from Valentines. And the nose is an easter Egg Whopper, Luckily Easter candy is allready out. These might be harder to make later in the year?? I guess you could just get creative.

But before the B-day party we must have a cute little baby shower. I think it turned out purfect. It was a small get together of friends to congratulate a Sweet Friend on her 5th baby. She finally got her 2nd girl. I am excited for her but kinda jealous too.

This welcome wreath is an idea I got from Anne at floralshowers. No one could doubt they were at the right house.

And the Tissue Paper pom pom fom Martha Stuart. WoW... They were so much bigger than I thought. There was no need for any other decorations.

The only other decoration I needed was a center piece, since we all fit around my table and ate cinnamon rolls. I had a brilliant idea when walking through walmart ..the day after valentines day. I stocked up on m&m's then just took out the red ones. I thought lemon heads would be cute with it. I probably could have found cuter dishesd but I was in a hurry.

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Cute cakes of Birthdays Past

I just found the file that contained all these birthday pics, I thought it would be nice to have them all togehter on here.

Cute clown, by Grandma (mt mom)
Polly Pocket, Must be by grandma (my mom)because my writing is no where near that nice.
I made this beach cake with a Polly Pocket
I think my Mom did this one too, McKinley says its her all tiem favorite!
Crayon Box, with Crayon candles, Have a Colorful Birthday. Again my moms writing she must have done that one too.
I did this one and remember it very well. Chase really wanted Nemo the year it came out. It was so much fun to make.

Secret Agent - Bday Party.

Invitation, I thought I took a picture. It looked like a manilla file foler with their name in typewriter fon on fron with a not that we needed their help on a secret mission to catch a spy. The scene of the crime was our house etc.
Decorations, I didn't do much but I put crime scene tape all over the front door.
Games, They came in and put the gifts on the kitchen table and played a little game. Its been 2 months so I can't even remember what it was. It was somehow related. Then they came downstairs to play Pictionary. The words in the bucket are all thing that you need to be a secret agent. Meanwhile my daughter hid the gifts, and when the boys came upstairs to open presents there was a letter to: Westin and guests. If was a clue from the birthday bandit. Eventually it led them to the presents and when he finished opening the last present I snuck a note out onto the table, one more note from the birthday bandit. It led them to the oven where my friend sneakily lit the candle on the bomb cake that she made below. Westin had to put it out and we ate it.

She used a ball pan, and stuck the candle inside a piece of chocolate licorice. SHE IS SUCH A GENIUS, I TELL YOU. It was my favorite part of the party. It turned out SO AWESOME, just right for a big boy, who still wants a big fuss for a birthday, and very simple too.

THE CAKE - my friend and I both LOVE to make and decorate really creative cakes but when you have to plan the whole party, clean the house and decorate, to invitations, and what not, there really isn't time. and if I manage to make time I don't enjoy it. well we are swappin. I make the cake for her boys birthdays, and she makes the cakes for my kids'. we have done it a few times now and so far it is Perfect. So swap with a friend if you can, it is really nice!.

Rawlins cake

This is Rawlins Caterpillar cake, I don't really like it, but whatever.

Luc's cake

Happy first Birthday Lucas, I had fun making his cake, the polka dots are just fruit rollups cut the with scissors. I uses a 9x9 pan for the bottom and a bread pan for the top, cut it in half it was a perfect square. I decided to just buy a cute bow for the top to make it look more like agift.