hike up payson canyon

Scott and I went on a short hike up payson canyon yesterday. We hiked to this beautiful water fall. it was short, but it was still a good workout! we wanted to go camping but it's supposed to rain...make that thunderstorm the next three days that we wanted to go camping. so i guess we'll go another time :(

just for fun

i promise i do more than just make cakes...but i couldn't resist trying this one. my mom's friend was going to have me make a "topsy turvy" cake for a birthday party but they decided to have vegies instead ("they are more likely to stop and grap veggies than they are to stop and eat a piece of cake...") makes no sense to me but oh well. so i decided to try and make one anyway because i haven't tried it before. so this is my first attempt. i also tried to make homemade marshmellow fondant...all in all it turned out pretty good for a lot of firsts.

Happy Birthday Gabe!!

Today is my oldest nephew Gabe's birthday. He is 5!!! i can't even believe he is that old already, time is just flying. i remember he was born when Scott and I had just started dating seriously. crazy how time flies! We had a family dinner/party for him tonight and my sister-in-law, Cat, asked me to make a birthday cake for him. it was a lot of fun to make and his reaction was well worth it. He told me thanks for making it the second he saw the cake then saw me. he is such a cute and kind kid! He opened gifts after dinner and it was hillarious. i guess we aren't very creative in my family because ben, hayden and i all got the same gift. he opened one and just said "wait a second," he had opened the exact same thing right before that. so it wasn't the most fun opening gifts, since they were all the same. but now he can pick out exactly what he wants :)

Congrats Rob and Rachael!!

My high school friend Rachael got married to her sweat heart Rob tonight. they dated for 9...yes 9 years! They had a beautiful ceremony and reception and was glad to be a part of that. Rachael asked me to make their wedding cake. So naturally i have to post pictures! i definately enjoyed the colors better than the last one :)

my cake

so i realized that i didn't even post a final picture of my cake on here. i have wanted to show a few people how it turned out but i didn't have it here. so this is more for me.

Happy Early Birthday!

My niece McKinsey is having a birthday in june, but my parents went out to visit this week. she requested a kitty birthday cake. so i couldn't resist. my brother Jeff said she saw the hello kitty and that is why she was asking for a kitty cake. my sister-in-law cheyenne was kind enough to cut out a hello kitty head that i could use as a guide. i think it turned out pretty cute. so HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY MCKINSEY!!!!

Pizza cake

ok, so i did my first cake for a paying customer! Scott sold this cake pretty much at our reception. They are friends of his dad and got talking to them about how we made our cake and they were interested. They only gave me 1 week notice, so it was a little crazy. Her colors were burnt orange, sage green and brown. However when she showed me her bouquet for colors, they were lime green and bright orange. so i asked and she told me burnt orange and sage green. so i did the colors she asked. i call it the pizza cake because i cut out the orange circles first and placed them on the cake. i put on a big circle and it looked like a piece of peporoni so i was a little nervous about the colors but it's what she told me. we delivered the cake friday night. we were waiting for the bride to come before leaving but the flowers came first. and again, lime green and bright orange. they wanted to put some on the cake...but it didn't look so good. i just had to laugh. the bride and her mom loved the cake. her mom said "she's going to love it. it totally fits her style" and the brides little brother said "what's that? funky?" it was funny. But all in all it went quite well!!!