Cake Decorating!

I'm in teh funnest cake decorating class this semester. We've made two cakes already but I forgot to take a picture of my first one. Now we just have to figure out who to give them too becasue it's way too much sugar to eat...ever! Wow! This cake has trees made out of waffle cones adn icing, a piping gel lake and everything is eatable except for the deer. I wouldn't recomend eating that! It is a chocolate cake with buttercream icing. MmmM! you can't hardly tell from the pictures but there is long grass on it. so fun to make~!

Love Is In The Air

Happy Valentine's Season!

So, I have this idea about decorating our little Christmas tree with each season. We found some heart ornaments which were just perfect. I also like to decorate this wall thing in our kitchen. It's fun to match things up like that. So I've spread some ornaments and ribbon around. I'm working on making some more ornaments to hang, nothing special, just a little something more. It's so nice to actually be able to decorate my own home with my own ideas. LOVE it!

Fun in the House

Fun in the House!

So, I'm far from being a pro at this blogg stuff but these are some pictures of some fun things we have around our house to help make it all nice and stuff. Most of them are new additions and a few older. Let me see if I can just point some of the thigns out...picture frame from Katee and Shaun, B's coasters that Ashlee made me for my birthday (she's so crafty), we brought back my families old keyboard so I could practice this semester. I only have to practice two hours a day so it's nice to have. Then we've got a beatutiful Home Family Blessing piece that TJ's mom made us for Christmas. There's even a beehive. I love it! So beautiful. Thanks mom!

Okay, let's see, three pictures we picked up on our honeymoon trip (Nauvoo temple x2 and Christ holding a light). We got a new kitchen table last week. It's my Christmas/Valentines presnet from my hubby. Totally worth it. Now I have the old one in my craft room so I can work and get things organized in there.

Mom got me this awesome dessert tray while she was up here this past month. I keep it full! A clock Ashlee made to match our kitche, a beehive cookie jar Ashlee got me for my birthday, a beehive TJ bought me on our Honeymoonm, a beautiful H Ashlee gave us for Christmas....goodness Ashlee has decorated so much of our house...LOL.

We are a part of the Living Scriptures Program which means...we pay money and get stuff. They're really good. Costly but I know they'll be perfect for our children. They are new and improved on DVD and have coloring books and games and trivia also.

Next is the beautiful piece that Jan made us. It's beautiful. I love the house and the colors and what it says. It's so neat and crafty just how I like things. I still have to find a frame for it but I think I know just where to look now so I'll have one soon.

Mom made us a HUNTER sign for Christmas. We still have to put things on the back so I can hang it. I know just the place. Katee made the striped bumblebee plaque with "A receipe to a happy marriage" in it. So neat!

Almost done...Whit and Derrick introduced us to this cube game. You have to click the lighted side/color and to do so you have to frantically turn the cube round and over and over. It's fun! Then pictures I got for Christmas to hand over our couch. I needed something bigger there and I think they work all right for now. A music thing on our wall, a set of angels above our door that mom got for me, a cookie sheet/magnet board that Ashlee made, a Nauvoo Star plate from Nauvoo from TJ, a wall hanging that I like from the DI and a butterfly I made years ago in flower arranging class.

So that's a bit about our home for now. It's so fun to decorate but I need to make time to do it right. I still need to get the craft room in order and put stuff up in there and get the spare room/office organized soon too. My thanks to all who help to make our house a home. Thank you.

HONEYMOON

Oh! So in LOVE!

Better late than never. Our honeymoon was very enjoyable. I'm kind of wishing for some of that warm weather about now. We played tourist around Nauvoo for a couple of days, drove to Winter Quarters/Omaha, Nebraska and camped out for a couple of days. It was so fun! We attended the temple there also. We drove some more and toured more of the church history sites down to Independence, Missouri and toward Kansas City. We went to Boston Red Sox game at Kauffman Stadium there in the KC area. The Sox played the royals. It was SO fun! I took all kinds of picture. It's not often that we get to go to a real baseball game, especially not to see TJ's (and mine) favorite baseball team play. It was so nice to sit back and relax to watch a good ole' baseball game. It was especially nice to not have to travel for a few hours. Looking back to...six months ago, I can't believe it's only been six months. We sure had a fun trip. Hopefully we'll get to go on another trip together in the not too distant future. We'd love to go to Boston and see the Sox play. That'd be awesome!

Nauvoo was so enlightening as were all the sights we visited. We visited the Kanesville Tabernacle replica wher I got to play an organ that's like...160 years old or something...I can't remember. We visited a couple of cemetaries, one The Pioneer Cemetary and the other had people of church significance buried there. It was a very enlightening trip and I'm so glad TJ and I were able to visit all the places we did. It was always my dream trip to take this tour to Nauvoo and to the midwest church sites. I'm grateful for the experience.

Card Making

When we went to Oklahoma on our holiday break to visit TJ's family Jan introduced me to card making. It is so fun! It's relaxing and enjoyable and best of all it's fun to be creative. There are so many 'toys' I never knew existed until I got to use them. I think I found my favorite new hobby. I need to start stocking up on supplies and get tools and stuff. It would be so fun to have people over to make cards and stuff. Gotta try it! I also better clarify that the card with the birdie was given to me for my birthday by Jan. She has all the best ideas!