Cake Decorating 101

Debs and I signed up to take a cake decorating class which was a ton of fun.  Each Saturday for 4 weeks we learned new techniques and got to try out what we learned.

I did not get off to a good start. . .  the first cake I baked totally fell apart when I tried to take it out of the pan. 

However, I redeemed myself and was able to bake something that would work for my first class.

Here is a picture of what my FIRST cake looked like. . . not too bad, eh?

Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of my other cakes, my BETTER, MUCH BETTER cakes so don't judge based solely on the picture above.  I actually became a pretty decent cake decorator.

Sochi 2014 Here We Come!

A few weeks ago, we attended our first training session for our 2014 Winter Olympic Curling team ;)  I have to say, Curling is WAY harder than it looks, not one of my best sports that's for sure!

such concentration

Our Curling Coach was very intense, she did take a liking to me however and commented on the awesome "penguin dive" when I released the stone  (basically a nicer way of saying that my belly flop onto the ice wasn't really going to work if we wanted to win).

A Trip Down South

We took advantage of the long weekend and headed to St. George with our friends, the Jones and Mortensen's.  We had a blast just hangin' with good company, got some good grub, and a ton of laughs. The boys were able to get a few rounds of golf in while the rest of us hiked around Snow Canyon.  We even got a day in at Vegas! 

 Thanks to Molly for these pictures, I didn't take my camera out once.
Best Buds!  Franklyn was a good sport and didn't mind getting his hair pulled by Eli

Thanks Granny B for letting us borrow the mini-van!

Happy Valentine's Day

Christmas 2010

Better late than never. . .

We had an awesome Christmas season full of parties, get togethers, family and friends. 

The Traditional Ugly Sweaters!

Best Buds!  Little Owen, Little Mortensen, Little Jones, and Little Whitchurch

Christmas Spectacular with the Rocket's

Our WARD PARTY. . . Zach was asked to be a Roman Soldier!

Our Angel

Christmas Eve Dinner at Granny B's

Christmas Morning

Eli Meets Santa!

We went to our neighborhood "Breakfast with Santa" and Eli got to meet Santa for the first time!  It went better than I would have expected, but you can see Eli's train of thought in the photos we snapped.

So far, so good.  Eli is given a candy cane and ready to tell Santa that he has been a good boy this year

 Soon, he realizes that there is a bunch of kids laughing and looking at him so he gets a little nervous

 And finally the crying begins.  Santa sure looks anxious to give him back to mom.

Can't wait til next year!