Pinewood Derby 2009

This is Caleb's last Pinewood Derby car. Off to 11-year-old Scouts!

Keeping Myself Busy

Here's some non-cake stuff I've been working on in the past few months.


A totebag for Joshua's teacher:

A sewing machine cover for my stepmother's birthday. She loves to quilt. Picking out the fabrics was a little too stressful to me to think I'd enjoy it:

Necklaces we gave away at our Girl Scout father/daughter dance:

Mother's Day shirt:

Totebag for Caleb's teacher:

Little Glimpses

Head over to my cake blog to see my newest cakes!

A Few New Cakes

Life is starting to settle a bit. Everything I'm involved in starts and ends at the same time, so May and August are crazy for me. I hope to return to blogging sometime this week, but I thought I'd pop up a few of the cakes that I did this weekend (just to add to the craziness).

See more at http://www.jamiescakes.blogspot.com

Farmhouse in the City

Alana and I took our girls to the grand opening of a new business in our town, Farmhouse in the City. It's a little place that has small animals and arts and crafts. The girls had fun and Liesie really loved the ferrets (good girl).

Making a windsock

Chickens

Bunny love

Checking out the magic wands

Loving the boas!

A shot of the fairy party room

A cool giraffe carving

Ferrets!

Recent Cakes

I have more pictures of these cakes here and here. They were both fondant, which I really don't do a lot of, so it was fun to get out of the buttercream rut for a little bit.

Restart

This morning was not a good morning. I lost it big time with the kids, so I decided that even though my feet hurt, I was going to try to run again. I walked .25 mile, ran (stopping every so often to stretch my back which was really hurting for some reason) 1 mile, then walked .75 mile to finish up at 30:30. My feet and back are not happy. I really need to call a podiatrist to see what I can do with the calluses on the balls of my feet (I've never had problems before I ran), but that involves 3 of my biggest dislikes 1.) calling people, 2.) the doctor, and 3.) people touching my feet. I might have to bite the bullet, though. I couldn't participate in our Brownie Ballerina Try-It with my troop on Tuesday. Don't even want to think about hiking and camping.

Rock Star

Joshua was chosen as one of the Blue Team's rock stars at the team meeting. The school is split into two teams (my boys are blue and Mischa is red). There are 3 team meetings a year and at every meeting they choose 3 rock stars- kids that try hard, do well, and are good examples. Mischa got one last year- luckily I happened to be there since Caleb was on the other team. Josh's teacher let me know earlier in the week- which was good since it was my turn to go to Mischa's meeting. I'm going to apologize in advance for the shaky video- Anneliese kept wanting up and pulled on my arm constantly.

Josh's introduction

A bonus was that 4th grade was singing a song a few of the students wrote.

Inuit Living
to the beat of Kung Fu Fighting

Oh-ho-ho-ho
Oh-h0-ho-ho
Oh-ho-ho-ho
Oh-ho-ho-ho

Chorus:
The Inuits were living in Alaska
Keeping warm was a big disaster
So they made clothes from animal skin
and built igloos to sleep in.

They were funky Eskimo men
From Alaska and Greenland
The men bartered for steel
and the women cooked a good meal.
The kids had a strong heart
Everybody knew their part
From shooting a bow and arrow
To playing tic-tac-toe.

Chorus

They invented the kayak that would always flip back
Hunting was a pain so the kids would play a game.
They carved knives from ivory tusk
and prepared their meal at dusk.
They loved their husky dogs
who pulled their sleds through thick fogs.

Chorus

Oh-ho-ho-ho-ha! CUT!
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ha! FISH!
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ha! GOT ONE!
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ha! LET'S EAT!

Chorus

Oh-ho-ho-ho ha section

Creating

Clothes- I'm making each of the kids a fleece hoodie/pants outfit. I'm 3/4 of the way done now!

Cards- for a teacher's birthday

Cake- for Achievement Days at Church.