Cardinals Game

Somewhere in all the fun over the last month, Adam and I went to a Cardinals Pre-season game. We have a friend that works for the Cardinals who gave us some free tickets. They were pretty sweet tickets, upper deck but front row and on 50 yard line. The game itself was kinda lame in that the Cardinals were playing awful, but its always fun to go to a pro game, especially for free

One of the scariest things I have every done!

And it involved food! No I didn't eat something crazy, I agreed to make my sister in law Rachel's wedding cake! Talk about scary! I was pretty confident I could do it, but at the same time you never know what to expect. It was a crazy few hours making it, and I definitely had some freaking out moments, but once I got everything figured out it was all good! I don't have any professional photos, but hope that Rachel will share some with me. But for now here it is!

This cake used pretty much all the skills I had learned in my cake classes so far, and then some I had to pick up from the internet. It was actually a lot of fun (once I got the fondant on, dang it my teacher was right about using cake dummies!).

I think my favorite part was the Anenome on top. I made that a few weeks in advance and was so excited I got it to turn out.

I am thankful Rachel let me make my first wedding cake for her, I can't imagine if I would have done this for a non family member.... YIKES!

Happy Birthday!

We also celebrated Adam's Mom's birthday in the last month. We had dinner at our house, we had a fun baked potato bar with lots of crazy toppings (including bacon, chorizo, peppers and onions in addition to all the normal stuff). And for dessert I made this super rich cake:

We had a big group (13 if you count Sadie and Brycen), our table is almost not big enough, and we don't even have kids yet!

The cake was chocolate with peanut butter cream cheese filling and chocolate ganache on the outside. Then it was covered in Peanut Butter M&Ms. Very tasty, but very rich!

Wedding #2

One week after Rachel got married, Adam's brother Isaac married Julie. I missed getting a good picture because I was helping pin on corsages, all I really got was a horrible video because by the time I got my camera back in my hand they were ushering all of us up for a group photo! BOO!!!! Hopefully someone will share a good one with me. I did manage to get Adam to attempt to take a picture with me this is what happened:

Luckily we got him to cooperate

And then moved out of the sun and got a much better one

Emily did get a very cute picture of Adam with our Niece Sadie, I'm pretty sure she is the cutest niece EVER!

Wedding #1

We got to be part of Rachel (Adam's Sister) and Jordan's special day as they were sealed in the Mesa Temple on August 27th.

Loved the dress!

This was after the sealing at the wedding luncheon, SO Cute!

I was not happy with my camera that night, everything was turning out blurry. This was the only semi decent picture we got, and obviously someone else took it! Adam is holding our nephew Brycen, he was more interested in the food than the Camera.