Yes, more cakes...

This was Taegyn's big family party cake. Ever since she saw Tangled, she insisted on a Tangled birthday party.
Here is the whole cake in all it's two tiered glory! :)
When we threw a party just with our immediate family, I made Taegyn a small "princessish" cake. I thought it turned out pretty cute.
A lady in my ward asked me to make this cake for her daughter's birthday. She was turning one and they did an owl themed party. I thought it was such a great idea. I might have to copy this for Addalyn's 1st birthday. :)

This was my very first Tangled cake that I did for a friend from high school. It was nice practice for Taegyn's.
This was a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting that I did for someone's birthday in the ward. I thought it was classic and simple.
This was probably the easiest cake I have made in a long time and I had a fun time doing it. It was for my sister-in-law's (Karen) birthday. It was a triple chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream icing and had a raspberry cream cheese filling in the center and on top. It was topped with fresh raspberries and blackberries rolled in sugar. A little bit rich, but very good.
I did this city cake for a 1 year olds first birthday. His theme was Super Heros and I think that it turned out really cute.
This was the little boys 1st birthday cake that he digs into. I loved this cute simple idea.

Strategically Placed

I realize that this will probably one day be very embarrising for my kids, that being said however, I love how they can have so much fun together in the bath tub.

I did think it was funny that there were toys strategically placed in the "private" areas so that you don't see much in these pictures. :) I love the innocence of children and how they can find the fun and joy in almost anything.

I definitely wish I could be more like that. As my kids are getting older, the opportunities for these type of innocent excursions are going to get less and less so I thought that I would document it while I still could.

Taegyn's new paint

I got ambitious and decided to repaint Taegyn's room. I didn't take a before picture because I thought that I had one already, but it was a buttery yellow color with a think pink boarder. It was great for a brand new baby room, but not for a growing girl.

That is when I decided to repaint it a little more modern and universal. Cory wasn't too excited about me taking on this project and refused to help so, I slaved and painted until I got the result I was hoping for. Now I can't wait to finish decorating the room. I will post more pics when it is decorated.

Taegyn's family birthday party

Cooking is a must

Cooking and baking are really big things in our household. My kids just love to either sit and watch, or "help" (when I let them.) It's been hard this pregnancy cause I haven't actually wanted to cook or bake much, but I have been able to squeeze in a few cakes and of course cookies, brownies and such with the kids.
Here are a few pictures that I have taken recently of my kids helping with baking.
One night I thought it would be fun to make sugar cookies with the kids and have them decorate them themselves. Well, as I was making the dough, deKyn said that he wanted rainbow dough. So, I got out some of my gels for cake decorating and let each kid pick their own color and mix it with the cookie dough.
I then rolled the dough together and cut them out in circular chunks and placed them on a cookie sheet.

When they were cooled enough, the kids frosted their own and put sprinkles on them.
Of course they went a little crazy with the sprinkles, but they had a blast.







When I do cook or bake something, my kids sit around like vultures waiting to lick the bowls or the beaters! :) I need to do this type of stuff with them more often!

Friend Birthday Party Monkey Island

This is the first year that we have done a friend birthday party for Taegyn. I decided that it would be fun to just let Taegyn invite a few friends and take them to Monkey Island. They all had such a blast. Taegyn invited her cousin Sammie, her good friend Josie, and another friend Paige. Of course we brought big brother deKyn along to join in the fun too. He had no problem being the only boy with all of the girls!









After we played for a while, we went back to our house where they opened presents and decorated their own cupcakes.




We picked up Papa Murphey's Pizza and had dinner and then we let the kids sing to Taegyn and eat their creatively sprinkled cupcakes.

This was such a low key fun party that I think I could probably do it again sometime. :)