30th. Birthday Cake

Our amazing friend is turning 30 and his wife is having a surprise party for him with beer tasting to boot.  So this is the cake me and Mark made for our friend.  It is four layers chocolate and white alternating.  Has a cream cheese butter pecan mousse filling.  The ice is made from gelatin, which next time I will spike. LOLOL  I will also make my own beer bottles, this time I couldn't find the liquid latex to use.  Check it out.

so much fun. Blessings

It's been to long!

It is crazy how time moves at such a fast speed. So much has gone on since I have written. Most of the reason why I haven't wrote was due to fatigue.   Since I have been home from Jamaica I have gotten the same thing two times.  Really it just never went away.  But today I just had to get the energy and take the time. I don't want my readers to feel like I just fell off the face of the earth.
Lets see, we had Dontae's two year pictures taken, which I will post on another day.  Only because they are on a disc that is clear across the room from me. LOL Also our little guy had surgery on his right foot.  At one of our many Dr. appointments they took a xray of both feet and hands. His right foot had a bone that I think was supposed to be one of his toes that didn't grow, and another bone that was growing sideways.  That was making his foot spread, so shoes were not going to work for him, and he was starting to trip a little here and there. So two weeks ago we took our little guy down to Seattle to Childrens Hospital.

Here he is with his dad, playing a game on his IPhone waiting for the nurse to call his name.

thirsty boy after surgery

and very out of it

and such a good patient

coming home with a full leg cast.  Can't walk for three weeks, then the cast will come off.  And hopefully that will be that.  Poor little guy had to be on oxicodne. He seemed to be doing pretty darn good until his little body had about four doses of the medicine and he turned HYPER.  It was crazy, he even jumped out of his crib, and crawled into my room to get me.  So we took him off of that, except for at bed time.  Only one dose it was fine.  It was just the craziest thing.  

Two weeks into all this, and Dontae is doing simply amazing.  

Blessings

Way to long

 It has been way to long since I have been here at my blog. After doing the last cake I got quite sick.  I am still not a 100% but at least I think I am on my way.  I told you that when I got the picture for the inside of the rainbow cake that I would post it.  Just took me longer to get it on here then I thought it would.

So I am thrilled with the inside.  This was the first time I had made a rainbow layered cake.  Not to mention that they said it was just delicious.  You can't get better then that.  A cake that looks cute but taste's like shorting is not a good cake.  So Yippee, I accomplished what I wanted to. Except for the little mishap of the cake settling overnight in their fridge and it started to lean.  They were so fine with the lean because everyone thought it was intentional.  But what it really was, was me putting to much weight on a one layer cake.  It was an after thought, because I was afraid there wasn't going to be enough cake, so my after thought was not very well thought out.  So live and learn.  And that is exactly what I did.
So now tomorrow, I am off to a scrapbook retreat for four days. The weird thing is I haven't  been away from Mark in two years.  I have been with him every day. So my tummy is sure upset.  I had to leave Dontae a couple of times while in Jamaica, so believe it or not, I am ok with leaving him.  And why wouldn't I, he will be with his Dadden and his big sister.  Life will be good for him.  And it will be good for me too, once I remember what its like to be scrap booking with 40 other ladies all weekend.  I will fill you in when I get home, because there is no internet.
Blessings

Another Cake

This cake was so fun.  I got to do a little scrap booking along with decorating a cake. Well I was running behind and Calie did the letters for me, but I did pick it all out. LOL
This was my first shot at a rainbow cake.

I am so glad my friend told me that she went and got disposable pans for this. This way I was able to bake ALL the cakes at the same time.  Could you imagine cooking two at a time?  So I made up two white cake mixes, put two cups batter in 6 different bowls and then colored them all different colors.  Worked out really well.
This little girls birthday party is in all rainbow colors, so this is how I came up with the way I decorated the cake.  I will be able to post pictures of the inside when they send them to me. Since I never had made one before, I sure hope that it looks really cool when they cute into it. I know it will taste good. :-)
The happy birthday sign was made with card stock and paper punches. And I printed the letters on white card stock from the printer. Then hot glued the skewer in between to the two scalloped punch outs. Turned out so darn cute!!!!

The adorable little curly que's are made from fondant.  And the cake on the very bottom is confetti cake.

This cake was a lot of fun to do.  Hope you enjoyed looking at my creations.  LOL
Blessings

Yummy Freezer Recipe

 I would love to start posting a recipe every week from my once a month cooking  that I am doing. I love go to other blogs and reading about their recipes.  So we will see.
Cute little adorable Dontae is feeling yucky and miserable so we stayed home today, except for the times that we sat in my neighbors driveway while they showed our house. LOL
Oh did I mention that one of the realtors backed in to my round about and knocked down part of the rock wall????? With all the room in my driveway, I sure find it hard to believe that she hit it, lol and she really must of hit it to knock it down like that.  Ok, ok lets get back to food.
So I decided to make something very easy.  It is called "Beef Stuffed French Bread" the recipe comes from this company http://www.30mealsinoneday.com/ this company and all their recipes I highly recommend. Here is a picture and then I will give you instructions

1 loaf French bread
1 lb lean ground beef
1/4 cup onion, chopped
1/4 cup green bell pepper, chopped
1/4 cup celery, chopped
1 10.75 oz can Cheddar cheese soup
1 Tbl Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1 dash pepper
4 slices American cheese

Slice the top off the bread. Pull out the soft center of the bread, leaving a1-inch thick shell. Cut the removed bread into cubes. Brown ground beef with onion, green pepper and celery. Remove from heat. Stir in Cheddar cheese soup, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Mix well. Gently stir in bread cubes. Spoon into hollowed bread shell. Top with American cheese. Replace bread top. Wrap tightly with extra heavy foil. Label and freeze.

To serve: Thaw. Place foil wrapped bread on baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Open foil down to pan. Return to oven for 15 minutes. Slice and serve.

 This is after I scooped out all the yummy bread.

After I cooked and put back into the bread.

 This is what it looks like right before you bake it.  YUMMY!!

All foiled up and ready to be put on a baking sheet and into the oven.

 

 

Now look at this bad boy!!!!!!  Super easy and super YUMMY!!!!!

So when you make this I want you to come back to my blog and tell me what you thought.

Blessings