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Update!

2010-07-21T09:25:00.001-07:00

Well just an update about what has been going on this year. We have had birthdays and graduations and trips, has been really fun and it is only July the best is yet to come. Will get to that at the end. Lets start with Zeona turning 6 years old, and boy was she excited about turning 6. She had a Hanna Montana party and the guests made there own guitars. She also had a sleepover with a few friends that turned out really well and was great fun.

Zeona with her cake, I also made micophones that you could eat out of ice cream cones and cake mix. They were a big hit not many of those left.

We went to Alb. during spring break and took a trip to the zoo. The mountain lion was pacing back and forth in his cage and we walked right under him. We saw many other animals like hippos they were great.

William's Birthday is next, Mr. 9 year old. He has found out that tether ball is a great game (I had no clue that schools even played it) but he wanted a dogs playing tether ball cake. so that is what I did and we brought his tether ball out in the front and they played tether ball. He also got a new bike for his birthday a much needed new bike which he was happy about.

Zeona graduated from kindergarten this year. Was very exciting because she had a solo for one of the songs that she sang and did a wonderful job and has a great voice. I made the cake for the graduation party. She made many new friends and is ready for 1st grade.

Syndl turned 5 this year and is in love with little pets so we came up with a little pet shop cake. Her party was full of water and fun. She made many friends her last year in preschool and is also ready for Kindergarten.

On another note Willie and I are celebrating our 10 year anniversary this year and are renewing our wedding vows. So since we didn't have a church wedding we are doing it now. So the next couple of week is going to be spent planning and decorating for the wedding. Yahhhhh!!!!!!! So very excited. Bye for now.

Hamburger anyone?

2010-02-28T18:57:00.001-08:00

We had dinner with some of Willie's family this weekend and they asked me to make a cake, they just love my cakes. Well I decided that since we were having hamburgers for dinner that it would be fun to have a hamburger with dessert to.

The side view of the burger.

I used sunflower seeds for the top of the bun.

Notice the mustard and ketchup and don't for get the pickles.

Coming in the month of March Hanna Montana, St. Patricks day and Mater from Cars.

Late Christmas

2010-01-28T10:41:00.000-08:00

Wow it has been a long time since the last time I posted. Well, here is a quick update. the rest of our fall went well the kids were doing great in school. Winter break came but we didn't do much because of the fact that my kids were sick for two weeks. When they were all better we went to Muleshoe to see great Grandma for a family get together. When we got there we got our car stuck and Grandpa had to come and pull us out of the snow (Was great fun ha ha). After we got unstuck then we had fun with the family ate good food and saw good people.

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Syndl is quite the Photographer she took this picture of Zeona and did a great job, and Zeona did a great job of modeling

Picture of the girls and me. We couldn't get William to come inside to take pictures that is why he is only in the outside pics.

The kids out by the horses and I must say they are not very friendly kind of mean acctually.

Some of the older kids were practicing with there rope and Colton got Zeona she had a great time.

Even the dogs had fun in the snow the next day or so. If you don't recognize the brown on she is new her name is Bella and she will be about the same size as Justice if not a little bigger. The other dogs like her she is a female and so far been a good one to. I will try to keep updated bye.

Teddy Bear Parade/Halloween

2009-11-01T18:57:00.001-08:00

The kindergarten here has a teddy bear week every year and last week was teddy bear week. The kids got to take there favorite bears to school, and at the end of the week the whole school puts on a parade. The teachers put together a skit of Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. Friday was the Parade and pajama day.

Zeona in the parade with her bear.

After the performace we went back to the class room and the kids have been learning to read a book about bears.

The three bears went to the class room to visit all the kids. The kids had a great time, they exercised with there bears and read to the bears and had snacks.

Saturday was of course Halloween and the kids were very excited of course. Zeona was a princess on a unicorn, William was an evil warlock, Syndl was a cowgirl on a horse. and I dressed in camo.

Picture of all the kids while we were at grandma's house. They all had great fun. William went with a friend trick-or-treating so this was my first halloween without him, but it was good.

Week of fun!

2009-10-29T21:33:00.001-07:00

Syndl's school has been doing a week of fun. I got a few pics of a couple of days. There was something different everyday, wacky sock day, pajama day, wacky glasses and hat day and wild hair day. She gets to wear he costume friday (tomarrow) which she is excited about. Syndl is going as a shark and hopefully doesn't eat her classmates.

We had to make a trip to clovis and found these glasses at Dollar Tree for wacky glasses and hat day.

For wild hair day I wasn't sure what to do and since I didn't have color spray for hair I used marker to color her hair. The are the good smelling markers so her hair also smelled like fruit. I will get pics posted of Halloween. Stay safe.

Homecoming

2009-10-20T21:16:00.000-07:00

Eastern New Mexico celebrated thier 75th anniversary this year so homecoming was longer then usual. The kids all enjoyed it of course as always. The gathered lots of candy and junk. Here are some picutres of the kids and what we saw.

The kids before the parade started. My kids are so camera shy, NOT!
Cassy, Zeona, Syndl, William and Caleb behind the bag.

A robot that was on one of the floats was very cool.

Super 8 won buisness of the year from Eastern so here are the managers riding in a car.

Grey hound out of paper.

An acutal Grey hound. Eastern is expected to get two grey hounds as mascots by the end of the year. They will be retired racing dogs, students will have training that are going to be around the dogs, and the dogs will appear at Eastern events. They are not the prettiest of dogs but I think it is good they are giving homes to the retired dogs.

William's 1st Football game

2009-09-24T19:54:00.001-07:00

William had his first game on Saturday and as much as I thought I was going to hate it I acctually enjoyed myself. I took a picture of William before we left for the game. We played the Stealers our first game and we lost but not without a fight. We played a pretty good game. the score I think was 20-16 but I can't be for sure. All that matters is William having fun all the kids are winners for even trying football in my opinion. William is on the Chiefs not a bad team better then the Cowboys lol!

William before his very first football game.

William is the small one in red socks (you may have to click on the picture to enlarge so you can see).

This picture is towards the end of the game last few minutes to be exact and William looked so cute just standing there. Once again he is the small one. There is a theme here he and a few other kids are really tiny but it is always the tiny ones that you have to fear.

Cat and Washer

2009-09-12T08:21:00.001-07:00

I have a friend that likes my washer and dryer just as much as I do. When she sees me in the laundry room he comes running in there with me. The first picture I took a couple of days ago and then he just liked to sit and watch the washer go round and round. Now it seems he wants to get in.

Just watching...

and now to get in!

Our last washer was a top loading washer and we had to be very careful about doing laundry because he would get up there and sleep in the washer. I think it is just an addiction. Who know cats could have an addiction to appliances, oh well cat after my own heart.

Fair Winnings

2009-09-07T20:31:00.001-07:00

My gosh I am slacking I am so behind on my posts. I guess just trying to get things ready for the fair took to much time, but it all paid off. I got some ribbons and the kids got some ribbons to (even a little money with them). Each of the kids made a needlework project and a collage, the girls decided that they wanted to do a card to.

Zeona was so proud of her winnings two 2nd place ribbons "good job girly".

Syndl got a 2nd and a 1st on her card and needlwork project "way to go sister".

William got at 1st and 2nd also for his needlework and collage "good job buba".

Here were all of my projects 13 craft projects and 7 baking but I didn't bring those home just the ribbons. All in all I got four 1st place, nine 2nd place and three 3rd place I am happy. Next year I hope the kids will do more maybe they can bake. I am not going to bake next year I will do the decorating cakes instead and the fancy cake. Well enjoy the projects.

Syndl's Birthday Party

2009-06-20T20:27:00.001-07:00

We celebrated Syndl turning 4 today, she and all her friends had a great time swimming and playing. Her Birthday this year lands on father's day (great isn't it). So we had her party the day before so people could spend the day with there dads.

Here is Syndl before the party getting a picture taken with her cake.

Here is the cake isn't it cute! Syndl wanted a crown on it's head but when I went to put the crown on it broke and I didn't have time to make another one.

All the kids playing in the pool even grandpa got in and splashed around. That is what you do on a vacation right.

The Cake! Syndl blowing the four candles out and all in one breath. I do have to admit that I got some really wierd lookes from the parents when I started to cut into the bear. I have never cut a bear up so I wasn't real sure on how to do it. But it all got eated, some of the kids came back for seconds and thirds (much to the parents dislike).

One of the best things that Syndl got was from Grandma and Grandpa. It was a chest and in it was full us Tinkerbell dress up clothes, earings, rings and slippers to look good in and even a pair of wings. Can't forget the wings you wouldn't be Tinkerbell. She and all her guests had a great time no one got sunburnt which is a good thing too.

New Member

2009-06-14T07:50:00.000-07:00

Well this is Twister our new cat or devil cat is what I like to call him. He is named Twister because he is very distructive and will hurt you. It took us about a week to name him but we found the perfect name. When you walk by he will jump out at you and attack your leg (bitting and claws the whole works). But he is a cute cat as soon as we get him fixed we are going to let him out so he can run and make mischief outside. Oscar doesn't really know what to think of the cat, the cat is kind of a bully to him. He has already been smacked around by the cat. Oscar was eating and the cat was drinking and the cat just looked up and smacked him in the face. Oscar wants so bad to play with the cat but he is a little frightened.

Twister right after messing with the Guinea pigs.

Jumping off the Guinea pig cage. Bounce was trying to bite his feet.

Acting so inocent "Yah right!"

Baseball and Cakes

2009-06-07T13:48:00.001-07:00

Few things just to update. We haven't really done much since summer has started except sign up for the reading program at the library. William finished his baseball season and got a trophy for all his hard work. He learned a lot and will most likely continue next year.

William with is very nice trophy which got put up right away so he wouldn't chew on it.

Willie's Birthday just past last week and we had a small get together with family and friends. I of course made him is cake I would never pass up making a cake. I decided that I would do a fishing cake for him because he loves to fish and they just opened Oasis up so he can.

I just made a round cake and decorated fish on it.

I made a boat out of paper and put sugar cookie people in the boat. It was a great birthday and a well eaten cake.

New member

2009-05-21T21:07:00.000-07:00

This week we added a new member to the family. Willie calls me up and wonders if we can get the girls something that they have always wanted. For the life of me I couldn't think of what it was but then he said CAT. I really didn't want the cat because they have a habit of scratching your furniture up and peeing everywhere. But we finally got it and it is Willie's cat for sure he sleeps with Willie all the time (poor little thing will get squished). I think that we have named him Mozart. The kids are all excited about it they will not leave the cat alone. He has been introduced to both dogs and Justice doesn't care, he looked at the cat and went the other direction. Oscar on the other had is still adjusting to him, we have to keep a close eye on him when Oscar is in the house. The cat of course hates the dogs but in time they will all like each other (crossing my fingers). Willie took many pictures of the cat the first day, I addmit that I also took a couple.

Here he is one of his favorite spots, Willie's stinky old hat. You could put two kittens in his hat that is how small he is.

Little bit closer on the first day right after he ate.

Mozart all puffed up from meeting Justice. Justice is an outside dog so he won't see much of him.

Oscar and mozart second meeting. Forgot of all the strange noises that come out of a cat when they are scared I thought it was quite funny.

Another Birthday

2009-05-17T20:33:00.001-07:00

Well my little boy has turned 8 so big. We had his party this afternoon and it wasn't big but cousins and Grandma and Grandpa came. We had it out at a park because we were going to be playing baseball. The first plan was to do a Power Ranger cake but then dad mentioned to William about a base ball cake then the cake turned into Power Rangers playing baseball. However the Power Rangers that we have were just a bit to big for the cake so we left them off.

Here is the cake made into a baseball diamond. I did really well for free had but hey it is only a baseball field and it isn't that difficult.

Here is William about to blow out his candles, cousins and siblings all around.

William is reading a card that was given to him by some friends of ours he got shorts, shirt and shoes, thanks a bunch it will be used.

Willie's parents got William a baseball bat and some baseballs for his gift and that is one of the reasons for having the party at the park.

William and Grandpa trying out is new bat to make sure that it isn't to big for him. It was a great day sunny and warm unlike the day before which was freezing (no wonder everyone in Portales is always sick).

Don't forget to check out my other blog for cards and cakes www.cakesgalorenmore.blogspot.com .

White Sands Weekend

2009-05-06T12:14:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we had a small family reunion and we all met in at the most central part for all of us. We went to Las Cruses. Saturday we had fun at White Sands. All the cousins got to get together and play. They had a ton of fun. Julie's three my three and Ruth's one.

Here we are just about to let the kids loose to go climb and have fun. We wanted to get one group picture before we scattered

Here is William at the top of the hill of White Sands.

Syndl is on a box and is sliding down the hill on it.

Zeona was trying to make a snow angle and doing a good job of making a dirt angle.

William was covering daddy in dirt. Willie looks dead in this picture.
On Sunday our last day to visit we played at the park all morning and had a picnic. Grandparents brought presents of the kids that were having Birthdays in May. We had a really good time and I hope that we make it a yearly tradtion.

William's first game

2009-04-27T20:12:00.000-07:00

Willam had his first baseball game last weekend. The name of there team is the muckdogs. This year William is in coach pitch he is excited about it he hasn't hit a ball yet but there is still time. His season will go until the first weekend in June. Baseball is his sport he is good at it, and he gets to throw things which is his favorite thing to do.

William right before the game.

He is playing the pitcher spot but the coach stands right in from and throws the ball. In a couple of years William will move up and the players will start to learn how to pitch.

William at bat. It is great fun watching the kids play, at this age they are so cute.

Easter

2009-04-18T20:01:00.001-07:00

Easter was great here in Portales, a little windy and chilly but that is Portales you can't predict the weather here. My parents came from Alb. to spend the holiday with us and help us with a few house repairs. I asked my sister if I could barrow a few punches to make something for the kids in my Sunday school class. I made a candy bar wrapper with a bunny on it that I made out of the punches it was just the cutest thing. I loved it so much I made a special trip to Walmart to get more candy bars just to make some for the whole family. On Saturday we did the fix ups to the house and my mom made me a wonderful skirt that came out great, we then colored eggs. Sunday we went to church I had to teach Sunday school and everyone addored the bunnies. After church we went over to Willie's parents house and hunted eggs with the cousins and had supper. It was a great weekend and appriciated all the help that my parents did.

Isn't it just the cutest and the ear folded down just adds a little more.

Syndl dying eggs.

Zeona on Easter morning getting in her basket.

William finding eggs. Every year there is a prize egg and William found it and to my surprise there was two this year and Syndl found the other egg.

Here is a picture of all the cousins. Zeona didn't want to take picture so she is not looking up.

Top: William, Caleb, Conner

Bottom: Kiely, Destiny, Zeona, Syndl

Check out my other website for the Easter cup cakes that I made for easter and more bunnies.

www.cakesgalorenmore.blogspot.com

Performing

2009-04-09T19:45:00.001-07:00

Willie and I participated in a HCI training (heath training basicly) at the girls preschool. The first class was at the beginning of the year and the final training was in Feb. The kids performed a few songs and then they handed awards out to the parents that came and participated. They were also having a drawing for a computer which I was hoping to get but not my luck. These are some pictures of the kids singing there songs. Syndl had such a good time up there that she didn't want to get off the stage. I started to go up there and get her but the lady with the awards let her stay and help hand them out. They sang a song called Tootie Tot it is a very cute song.

Zeona performed a little but then kind of stopped.

Sisters wanted to stand next to each other.

Here is Syndl singing and doing the motions which are a cute as the song, and Zeona in the backround being grumpy.

And finally Syndl handing out the awards. They lady would call your name and you go and get your award and Syndl would hand it to them and start clapping after everyone it was just so adorable.

Zeona's Birthday

2009-03-15T21:20:00.001-07:00

Zeona turned 5 this past week and boy was she ready for it. She was so happy to be able to tell people that she was 5. We had a Little Mermaid party for her I of course made the cake which came out just awsome I don't know which is my favorite Care Bears or Little Mermaid. She had some friends over we did a small craft and then they went to play in the bedroom. All in all she had a great time. Most of this cake was made in advance with royal icing and then the 4lbs of chocolate that made Ariel. The fish were sugar cookies and the little white things on a stick are supposed to be bubbles but I didn't really think that they looked like bubbles.

Here is the wonderful cake just amazing it even shocked me on how good it came out.

Zeona got a Littlest Pet Shop game to play (she loves littlest pet shop and little mermaid).

Here she is ready to blow the candles out on the cake.

She finally got it Little Mermaid the movie.

Here are all the kids squeezing themselves into the tent.

I also did two other cakes this week one for a friend for her daughters Brithday and one for Willie's cousin for his birthday. Both again came out great.

This is the cake for Willie's cousin his birthday is on St. Patrick's day so he wanted it something that went with St. Patrick's day. I decided on this cake not to cut the hearts level because it would look more like a clover and it does.

The next cake is a lighthouse cake. The girl loves lighthouse and who doesn't they are really beautiful. I made a lighthouse out of a sugar cookie and then just decorated it to look like a light house. Even added some sky to it, add a little brown sugar to the bottom and you have sand.

Here is the final product. I uses fondant to make the rocks, I added black food coloring and mixed it till it gave it just a swirl and made them look like rocks. Then I placed the cookie on top and then I was done. This is a small cake it was ment for just two people so it is not a full size cake. Hope you enjoyed.

Two fun things

2009-03-06T18:52:00.000-08:00

So I have two things to post today. One is a project that I just finished, I made a birthday crown for my kids birthdays. Zeona's is next week so she gets to wear it first. The crown has all different kinds of colors of candle's around it and it says Happy Birthday on the front. Zeona is very happy about her birthday coming up.

Zeona happy to were the crown.

The next story I have is about Syndl. Her class is learning about plants so today she brought home grass seed soil and a nylon stocking. The instuctions were to make a grass head guy so this is what Syndl is doing and hopefully grass will grow out of his head. We glued googly eyes on and colored a nose and mouth, Syndl added a mustache.

Here Syndl is putting the seed in the nylon stocking. We had to cut the bottom four inches to put the dirt and seeds.

Next we add the dirt.

After we add the dirt we tie a knot in the stocking to make a ball shape. Then we added the face but I forgot to get pictures of that.

Earlier that day we went to the store to get a yogurt so that we could use a the cup for the water, so Syndl got a little treat out of it to. Syndl is now putting tail side down in the cup which has about 1 1/2 to 2 inches of water. So hopefully within a week or so we have grass growing on his head. We will keep you updated on the progress of grass head guy. Have a great weekend.

Here comes the cake, here comes the cake...

2009-02-28T19:38:00.001-08:00

Well here it is my first wedding cake. I made up round chocolate cakes and iced them with buttercream icing, a few days in advance I made up a bunch of daisies with a foundant recipe that my sister had given to me. I must say it does taste a whole lot different then store bought foundant. I also sprinkled the flowers with pink pearl dust so it gave is a shine a look of a real flower very awsome tecnique. You can't really tell from this picture but it does sparkle. So this is the way it came together...

Here are the top two layers that are going to be sitting on the pillars. I put my dasies and leafs all around the cake.

This is the bottom layer I had extra flowers so I made a small bunch of flowers to go in between the cakes.

This cake is made out of foundant and them put on a dowl rod to place on top of the cake. I also did pearl dust on the cake to and it was great.

Here is the cake assembled at the church that it was at. This is a picture of the top layers with the foundant cake on top.

And here is a picture of the whole cake. I have more pictures of the cake but with the white table cloth this was really the best I could get. The bride said the she wasn't expecting something that beautiful, made me feel great. Anyway enjoy.

Christmas here and gone

2009-01-02T21:18:00.000-08:00

Christmas went by really fast this year is seems like I didn't have much time to decorate. I love to decorate for Christmas one of my favorite holidays.

On December 20th we had Christmas at Willie's parents house because they spent it up in Colorado with Willie's grandparents. The kids had fun and got lots from Aunts and uncles and grandparents. Zeona was introduced to makeup (how fun). The kids also got a giant gumball machine from there Uncle. It was great fun.

We didn't do much this Christmas we stayed home and had a nice Christmas here. My parents came Christmas day and we had fun and did lots of visiting. We went shopping on Friday hopping to find sales but there wasn't much. The kids got lots of goodies from more Aunts and grandparents. I think the biggest hit was what William got from his Aunt Julie and Uncle Patrick, He-Man. The kids had never seen He-man till now but they love it they run around the house playing He-man.

Here are the kids on Christmas eve writing a note to Santa on a plate that we put cookies on. Santa used the dry erase marker and wrote them a note back very nice of him.

Each of the girls got a life size barbie from santa here is Syndl with hers which is a ballerina barbie and Zeona got a princess barbie. William got a robot but I never got a picture of him with his.

After Willie got home from work we opened gifts and Willie for the longest time has been asking for a Gitar Hero so he finally got one.

Here are the kids jumping on their new trampoline that Grandma and Grandpa help put up.

Syndl's program

2008-12-16T13:32:00.000-08:00

Syndl had a small program at her school today, they just sang a song and did a dance was really cute of all the kids. They invited all of the other classes over to watch so Zeona got to see Syndl in her program.

Here is syndl in the white shirt she is ringing some bells and singing "Rudolph the red nose reindeer"

Here they were singing a song about thumbs up elbows out and a bunch of other different moves was really cute they way the kids did there own little moves.

GRADUATION

2008-12-13T15:00:00.001-08:00

Congradulations Willie!
Willie graduated from Eastern New Mexico State University today, he has worked very hard and long hours for this and we are all very proud of him. He graduated with a bachelor of science in phycology (I think that is how you spell it). I tried to take pictures of him during Graduation but the lighting in the Greyhound arena is terrible so they came out really dark. But here are some from before and after.

Willie before he graduates

Willie after the ceremony with his holder the actual deploma won't come for another two weeks or so. They want to make sure that you passed all of you classes so they don't send them out for a couple of weeks, but you get a nice holder.

The graduate with his family. Very proud.

Here is the cake that we had at the reception afterwards. I made the little guy at the top I used scrapbooking stickers and used two popcile sticks for the legs and card stalk for the head I think I will use him in my scrapbook.

Here is the little guy up closer.

Oscar's Birthday

2008-12-10T14:24:00.001-08:00

We celebrated Oscar's 1st birthday on December 6Th. He had a great party we brought the other dogs in to eat cake and ice cream with Oscar ( the cake and ice cream were dog safe). Oscar got a new rope toy for his birthday. We had hot dogs for dinner and Oscar got a hot dog to himself then the good stuff. The kids wanted to eat cake but I didn't make a cake for us. I found cake and ice cream for dogs at Walmart a month or so ago.

Here is Oscar with his cake.

Here is his cake I put chocolate chips (also dog safe) on the cake and tried to make them look like a paw print.

Here is Oscar enjoying his cake and ice cream.

William's program

2008-12-04T19:22:00.000-08:00

William has his Winter program for school last night (Thrusday) and the theme was Dr. Suess. The kids all had hats and big red bow ties on. I forgot to bring my camera so I got a picture of him when we got home. However they had the option of purchasing the program on DVD so we did that. The DVD is going to have the program and the rehearsal that they did earlier that day. William was in the front row and dressed all in red (because they told us to ware bright colors) and in the DVD he is going to be the one that is pulling up his pants the whole time. I guess it is a nervous habit because he didn't mess with his pants all evening till then. It was a good performance though very cute.

William after his performance in his hat and bow.

Turkeys

2008-12-01T18:29:00.001-08:00

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Our family had a good one, we went to one of Willie's Aunt's house and so I didn't have to do to much cooking thank goodness. The kids got to play with there cousins who they hardly ever see. I was asked to bring a casserole and a dessert. Willie took his chocolate pie like he always takes to pot lucks and I decided that the kids would like cookies instead of pie. If they are anything like my kids my kids do not touch pie. So I made cut little turkey cookies for the kiddos. All it is a sugar cookie and candy corn with a little icing very simple.

Here is one of the turkey's that got eaten up.

Here he is with his family before dinner.

Tinkerbell

2008-11-22T20:53:00.000-08:00

Tinkerbell was the last cake that I did last week and it was a big hit. I got the idea off a web site I like to use and when I did Tinkerbell I outlined her with black gel on wax paper and then flipped the paper over and I had my outline. Filling her in was not that hard. I used a star tip with butter cream icing then I just outlined her again with the black gel.

This is a close up of Tinkerbell

Here is shows how Tinkerbell pops out of the cake just to give her some demention.

And here is the top view of the cake all put together and ready to be delivered.

Birthdays, Birthdays, Birthdays

2008-11-13T17:09:00.000-08:00

It seems like everyone has a Birthday in November but that is a good thing it gives me something to do. Here is the Cowboys cake that I did last Friday night and a ninja turtle one that I did on Wednesday.

The star was made out of color flow and I used whipped icing instead of buttercream. I used two new teqniques that I had never used before and they came out quiet well.

The turtles were made before hand with royal icing and then I iced the cake in whipped icing and placed the turtles on top.

Busy Weekend

2008-11-08T15:21:00.001-08:00

This weekend was busy I had to make two birthday cakes and a baby shower cake and they all got done and looked great. I have never done three cakes in one weekend but now I know that I can do it. The baby shower cake I had done before so I knew what to do. I also had a Roller blade to do for one of William's friends birthday. They had the party at Roller world in Clovis and went over great from what I here. The third cake I did was for Willie's uncle and I don't have a picture of that one yet but I will soon and will post it. It was an ice cream cake and there was a Dallas Cowboys star on the top.

The baby shower cake I used different flowers on this one then I did on the last one. So they are both a little different.

Here is one picture of the roller blade so that you can see the laces.

This is a view from the top of the cake. The cake was a lot bigger then I thought it was going to be but at least it fit on the board.

Halloween 2008

2008-10-31T08:46:00.001-07:00

We had great fun this Halloween the girls got to dress up for school and so they got to get dressed up twice. The girls went to school as Dorthy from Wizard of Oz and Syndl went as a chicken. The day before the big day we carved our pumpkins William drew on his and then I cut it out, and the girls drew on there's and then I cut there's out. That night we went to a local church here in town. They were doing a trunk or treat, it is where people park in the parking lot and open there trunks and you go from car to car which I like because there is no in and out of the car. The kids had great fun and we even had one of the kids friends join. The kids had a blast and we even got in early.

Here is Zeona and Syndl pulling out the guts on there pumpkin.

The cyclops is William's pumpkin and the other one is the girls.

William was a red Power Ranger he is very much into red right now.

Syndl was a shark scary huh

Zeona was Blue from blue's clues.

Homecoming Parade

2008-10-27T13:37:00.001-07:00

This weekend was Eastern's homecoming game and there is always a parade that morning. The girls' school did a float and so the girls got to ride on the headstart float. William road on our church's float but since I couldn't be in two places at once (and the fact that his float was at the end) a friend of mine was taking her daughter on the float so William went with her. I will have pictures of his float soon.
The theme for the parade was hawiian and so all the floats had palm trees and stuff like that. One of the float had a volcano that had smoke coming out of it. But that is the bummer thing about being in a parade you miss all the other floats.
The girls had a good time, Syndl hopped right on the float Zeona wouldn't get on unless I was on it. They threw fruit snacks and cookies. They were very upset when they had nothing else to throw.

Here is Syndl right after she got on.

They were giving all the kids another lay to put on so this is Syndl collecting her second one and going back to her seat.

Here are the girls the parade is starting so they are ready to go.

This is a picture of all of us on the float, surprised that Zeona smiled for the picture.

Fun, fun,fun

2008-10-17T14:21:00.000-07:00

I finally got some picture of the kids playing with Oscar. It seems like everytime they play I don't have my camera on me so I never get the shot. Oscar has two stuffed cats that he likes to chew on and play with, Oscar is chasing the girls as they run around in circles. Both cats are disabled one hads only three legs and no nose and no eye, the other one has no eye and nose. But he loves he cats I just don't think that he would like the real thing.

Here is Oscar trying to get the kitty from Syndl

Now he tries Zeona

Here he is with his kitty. He likes to lay on his back and chew on the kitty.

More playing

Here is a project the I just finished for a friend of mine who just had a baby. It is a picture frame for the little one. If you would like to see anymore of my project or cakes them you can go to www.cakesgalorenmore.blogspot.com.

Waterfall Cake

2008-09-27T20:06:00.001-07:00

My mother-in-laws birthday was today and Willie's dad wanted me to make a waterfall cake. Well at first he wanted a waterfall made out of post its. I for the life of me could not think of what he was talking about. So I had decided to make a wishing well that was very cute. Then I came across this cake. It has the waterfall and flowers, the only thing that my cake doesn't have that the other one had was palm trees. I couldn't get the palm trees right. But it still looks great even without the trees. I took two pictures of it one without the simmer on the waterfall and one that gives it a more of a water look.

This is the one without the shine to it.

And this is the one that is made to look like water is running down.

New Room

2008-09-27T19:58:00.000-07:00

Since I now have the mornings to myself I am starting to bring color into our very white house. I started with the girls room and I have the painting done. Right between the two colors there is going to be a border. I just need help putting it up and for that I need Willie so when he gets time he is going to help me do that. We will get around to it eventually.

The top of the wall is a sky blue and the bottom is a shade of purple. The border that is going around it is the same colors as the walls along with some pinks and greens, they are flowers.

Here is another picture of the wall I left around the window and the door white it looks good.

Catapillar cake

2008-09-12T19:33:00.000-07:00

A friend of Willie and ours had a birthday this week and we had them over for dinner and I made her a cake. It came out great if I do say so myself. I have always wanted to do this cake and as I was doing it I was thinking I should have done the Very hungry catapillar and then could have made snake food like he eats in the book. I think that might be a theme that comes up for a birthday next year you never know.

He is most of the catapillar the last little bit is just a tail that is sticking up in the air.

Here is the face isn't he so cute!!!

Wild flower

2008-09-05T21:19:00.001-07:00

This is interesting. I was doing some yard work in our back yard the other day and I thought all that grew in our back yard was weeds, to my surprise I found this flower. It was a single flower nothing else around it. I also thought that it was really interesting I had never seen a flower like this before. It has five small flowers in the middle that come out around and then what I call spider like legs around all of the flowers. If anyone knows what kind of flower it is I would love to know. I only saw it that one day or dog Oscar kind of broke it to pieces the next day. But it was great to see what kind or things God puts on our earth for us to enjoy and so many of us take them for granted. Hope you enjoy the flower as much as I did.

Here is the flower from a front view.

If you look closly you can see the five small flowers in the middle that come out and then the spider legs around them.

Fair Projeects

2008-08-25T16:33:00.001-07:00

I entered some of my projects that I like to do when I have some spare time. All four that I entered won. I got two first place and two second place, first place you win $4 and second place you win $3 so all together I won $14 for my hard work. I can't take all the credit because Ruth helped me with my stamped 3D object. All in all I had fun doing the projects and my friends that saw them at the fair had good stuff to say.

These are book ends it is a country church, this one won 1st. This was the hardest of all the projects but I love to do plastic canvas and I make lots of things every year.

This is the 3D object that Ruth helped me with which also won 1st. It is a photo book that you can set on your desk and flip through daily. Each page (front and back) have different designs.

Here is a card that I made at a stamp camp and I loved this card I got the stamp set for making this card. This card won 2nd place.

When I went to the fair I looked for this card but couldn't find it, so I figured they just forgot to put it out. I went to pick up my stuff and to my surprise it won 2nd.

Dogs

2008-08-17T12:30:00.000-07:00

I got some pictures of two of our dogs. Justice I guess didn't want to get his picture taken. We got Papa Bear from friends of ours who saved him and they were about to take him to a dog ranch because they couldn't afford to feed him. Willie and I decided that he would have a good home with us. He is a great dog and great with the kids. Oscar our Pug Willie got me for valentine's day (2008) and he is a very active dog and loves to play with the kids. He has a stuffed kitty that he likes to play with however I think we are going to have to invest in a new kitty because his kitty has about had it. It took awhile before Papa Bear and Oscar got along but now they can at least stand together without Papa Bear getting annoyed. Justice will still have nothing to do with Oscar ( he is almost 50 in dog years though).

Papa Bear lying on the trampoline

Oscar and Papa Bear together.

Oscar wondering were all his friends went.

Raton Trip

2008-08-10T14:19:00.000-07:00

The family went up to Raton this weekend for a family members wedding. The kids had a good time exporing the town. There are many parks in Raton, there is also a hill (Goat hill) that has a beautiful view of the whole town. The wedding was Friday and Saturday before we left we went to see an extinct volcano we got to walk around the top of it and then walk down into the center. William go to fill out some papers that Grandma printed out for him. He had to explore his surroundings and write them down, at the end he became a Junior Ranger and got a badge and everything to make it official. We all had great fun.

The kids on top of Goat hill over looking Raton.

A view from walking around the top of the volcano looking down in the center.

Here is the highest point from walking around the volcano.

Here are the kids sitting in the center of the volcano.

Guinea pig bath

2008-08-03T20:29:00.001-07:00

We gave two of our kids a bath today and Aurora loved the bath Bounce however thought that we were torturing her. It was a much needed bath we had to change the water after Aurora got in because it turned brown. I must say though that when a guinea pig shakes after a bath they are about as bad as a dog after a bath.

Here is Aurora in the tub and loving it she likes to be clean.

Here she is getting rinsed off under the water.

This is bounce and she fought the whole time that she was in the bath.

See she survived the evil bath time with no melting too.

2008-08-02T17:04:00.000-07:00

On our trip to Albuquerque we went to visit the Aquarium and Botanical garden. The kids had a great time and I enjoyed all of the new stuff that they added. Like the Japanese garden which gave me wonderful ideas for my yard. We did many things on our trip but this was just one of the activites that we had planned for the kidos. We also went swimming and shopping a couple of times which my kids hate but they go anyway. They got to visit Aunt and Uncle and cousin they loved to play together and had great fun. Syndl also got her hair cut and so did Zeona.

Here is me and the kids in the Japanese garden under the big bell.

William with the dragon right before we entered the childrens garden.

Here are me and the kids inside the children's garden riding on a giant ant.

Can you guess what this is?

Vacation Bible School

2008-07-10T18:52:00.001-07:00

The kids did VBS this week and really had a good time. Syndl even got to go so Willie and I got three mornings this week to ourselves. The kids learned about Daniel in the lions den, about the paralized man that Jesus healed. They did all kinds of crafts and learned all kinds of songs. On parents night Zeona was sitting with me and she was just repeating to herself "Faith, hope, Love." I just thought it was so cute. I got pictures of the kids doing the performace for each class but the church was so dark they didn't turn out so I got pictures of the kids in the class rooms.

william's class all got to put on clown noses for there performace and got to take them home he really likes that.

Zeona and Syndl got a picutre in front of the lions den that was set up in Zeona's classroom.

Syndl crouching down on a bale of hay in William's classroom.

Forth of July

2008-07-09T06:50:00.000-07:00

We went to Logan for the holiday weekend to get out of town and we had tons of fun. All of us went swimming in the lake, even Oscar. We camped out and the boys fished didn't catch anything but turtles but they had fun trying. The girls are natual swimmers they went out in the water and just picked up there feet and started to swim. Syndl loves to swim we had to keep up with her. William loves the water but he fights it so he is still learning. We watched the fireworks show that they have on Saturday every year. It wasn't as good as the years before because we weren't as close to the fireworks as we usually are, but they were still pretty. All in all we had a great time and love to do it. We come out every year if we can.

The kids right before we went swimming in the water hole.

Syndl swimming and daddy keeping up.

Even Oscar in the water.

The kids playing in the sand.

2008-06-30T14:06:00.000-07:00

Willie and Brad coming around the courner

# 50 passing through

Willie had some fun with his brother this weekend. His brother Brad was driving a race car and asked Willie to be the passenger. Willie was in charge of throwing eggs out of the window. He did hit a couple of people with the eggs. They finished 2nd which was very good. Willie and his brother like to race and up in Clovis there is a dirt track the they can race on, on the weekends.

water play

2008-06-28T11:39:00.001-07:00

This week when we were at Grandma's it was hot and so we got the sprinkler out for the kids to play in. William and Oscar were the only one's that we could get in the water. I think that Oscar got more soaked then the kids. Oscar loves the water he loves to get baths as well as William. A couple of hours after we had our sprinkler time s pretty stong storm came threw. We have been lucky enough to be getting a little bit of rain every evening.

William playing in the spinkler.

Oscar in the water.

The storm afterwords.

2008-06-22T09:10:00.000-07:00

Syndl celebrated her third Birthday yesterday, the theme was carebears. We celebrated by doing face paint and other games, and of course the usual gifts and cake. I made her a special carebear cake which she enjoyed. That morning we went to see a parade because it was heritage days this weekend here in Portales and so we started the day off with that. All in all it was a good day.

Baseball

2008-06-14T15:23:00.000-07:00

Saturday William ended his first season of T-ball today Saturday the 14th of 2008. After the game we went to pizza hut with the rest of his team mates and had a pizza party. He plays a very good catcher from what I saw. The last picture is his last time to come home and he made it a slide. The second picture is him playing 1st base. He got a trophy with his name on it so he was very excited.