Cake #4- Playing with Fondant

I've been wanting to try playing around with fondant and I had a little extra time today, so I thought I'd give it a go. This is a six inch round cake that I covered with white fondant. Then I made some blue fondant stars (Thanks to the play dough cookie cutters!) and stuck them on. Overall, this was pretty easy to do. The fondant recipe worked out well and it's pretty easy to color although I was in a hurry and still had a few streaks in mine.

My critique: I think I made my stars a little too thick. As I mentioned, I was in a hurry and so I didn't take time to trim down the round cardboard cake board that is under the cake so you can see it. (Nor did I wrap it, but I'm only going to serve it to my family!) This was a very quick job (less than 5 min to decorate) and I'm sure I could do a little better if I gave it a little more time and effort!

I have read that covering small cakes is easier than covering large cakes with fondant. I could easily see how that could be true. As for this small cake. Covering it was super easy and I have to say that I prefer this to using traditional decorator icing.

Fishing at Grammy's House

We spent last weekend visiting our family in Wichita and El Dorado. Grammy's house has a pond behind it. The kids spent a lot of time fishing over the weekend. Neither one of them caught a fish. Fortunately, Travis caught a few so the kids could see and touch them. Wow. I never thought I'd raise two city kids, but it seems as that's what's happened!!! My kids have pretty much only fished at Grammy's house. I think we're going to have to change that!

Aiden had amazing patience and persistence. All he wanted to do was fish.

Waffle got to spend some precious time outdoors while the kids fished.

Travis caught this bass one morning while waiting for Waffle to do his business.

Cake #3- The Anniversary Cake

Yep, that's right. Our 8th anniversary is coming up next week. I thought I'd make a cake to celebrate with. I decide to make a round layer cake and then decorate it. No too difficult, right? Well, there is a very good reason you're not going to get to see a picture of this one! Major FAIL!!! Hahaha. At least I can laugh at it. I couldn't get the cake to stop leaning (I thought I had the layers level), which made me pretty frustrated, so I just decided to use left over icing from my last cake to decorate it. Instead of making new icing for this disaster. I used orange and light green (which were our wedding colors). They don't belong together on a cake. Enough said. The next cake will be Aiden's birthday. It should go better. We'll see!!!

Two Silly Kids

I thought you might enjoy a little silliness today!

At the Zoo

It was a beautiful day today in addition to being cycle break, so we decide to take a trip to the zoo. I can't believe we hadn't been there yet this year! Here are a few pics from our trip. Enjoy!

We had to get popsicles...

and ride the carousel...

and of course ride the train!!!

One of the nice zoo volunteers showed us a gorilla skull, a chimpanzee skull and a lemur fur. How exciting!!!

It was a beautiful day to visit the zoo. We went in the afternoon and there was very few people there. There were no crowds, no lines and no arguing between my children. What a great day!

Cake #2- The Jack-o-Lantern

I thought I'd try another cake today. This is my first attempt at a jack-0-lantern cake. I think it turned out pretty well! The kids are really excited to eat it! Next up will probably be some Halloween cupcakes and then the kids both have birthdays coming up! Aiden has already picked out a Lightning McQueen cake. It looks pretty complex... I may need a practice cake before the real thing!

Dad's Handy Helpers

Ok, well maybe not so handy, but they are super eager to help out daddy with all our home remodeling projects! You can check our our project progress here.