Blue and Gold Banquet cake

So I made the cake for our Ward's Blue and Gold Banquet, which was celebrating the scouts 100th birthday. Well, actually Nate volunteered me to make but the cake but I was excited to do it. It was a lot of fun making and it was definitely big (two 11x15 sheet cakes). It was a bit hit and the boys were fighting over who got to eat the trees :-)

close up of the trees and rocks. Nate made the rocks out of gum paste ansd they looked so real.

Birthday Fun

So we celebrated Nate's birthday along with the boy's on Saturday. Nate's brother Brad came up from Salt Lake and Nate's cousin Jeremy and his wife Apryl and their kids came up too.

The kids had a great time playing together.

The boy's cake...which was SO much fun to make.

Nate's cake (Chocolate Toffee Cake)

The little monsters are 2

Today is Joe and Ben's Birthday. I can't believe they are 2 already. We are going to celebrate their birthday on Saturday along with Nate's (which is on the 31st). Happy Birthday boys...we made it through 2 years...now we will see if we can make it through the next 2.

Is is bad of me to be excited that they will sit for 15 to 20 minutes and watch a movie? At least Alisha is reading right?

This one is just funny. I found Joe like this the other day when i went in to get him out of bed.

Our new couch

This is the new couch we purchased last weekend. We bought it from a custom furniture place in Salt Lake and it was suppose to take 2 - 3 weeks to make. I got a call 5 days after we had ordered it and because we picked one of the few colors they had in stock they got ours made faster than expected. YAY! I am way excited. Nate and I celebrated by both taking a nap on it on Sunday...it was so nice for both of us to be able to nap on it at the same time and not kick each other. :-)

Christmas 2009

We had a very nice and quiet (well as quiet as you can get with the double trouble) at home for Christmas this year. Here are a few pics.

The aftermath

Halloween

So we had a fun Halloween this year. We went to our Ward Party on Friday and then we went out trick or treating on Saturday and then had a nice get together at out place. I had a really hard time getting any good pictures of the boys...they don't stand still for more than 1/2 a second these days.

Alisha was Dorothy and Joe and Ben were Flying Monkeys

Trick or Treating at the Mall

Our door

My Pumpkin

Alisha's Pumpkins

It feels like Fall

Today we went to the Paradise Valley Orchard and picked pumpkins and got some fresh mulled cider. This was the first time going and we had a wonderful time. I think we have found our yearly pumpkin picking place.