Cake Decorating

So I've decided to take on another hobby. This is something I've wanted to do for awhile but never got around to it. Then a few weeks ago, Karen (our niece) called and asked if I wanted to take a class at Hobby Lobby with her and Rochelle. It meets once a week for 4 weeks on Wednesdays. This worked out perfectly for me so I said yes. It's a lot of work, because we have to bring frosted cakes to class so there is some homework but it's worth it. I've been very happy with the results from the first 3 classes. Next week is our final one and I definitely feel like I've learned a lot.

Here's my cake from class 2:


And my cupcakes from class 3:




We learned how to do these cute little clowns in class3:


Callie loved the one I let her have for her 5th birthday:
No, she didn't eat the whole thing. Just licked a bunch of frosting off. She has a huge sweet tooth, just like her mommy. :-)

7 Random Facts

I was tagged by Lan to list 7 Random facts about myself so here goes:

1. I have 6 toes on my right foot.
2. I can not keep house plants alive no matter how hard I try. Amazingly I have 2 right now that have made it 4 months...has to be a new record.
3. I get very grouchy if I get hungry. People who know me well, know to find food for me when I say I need to eat.
4. I'm a librarian who is very organized at work but can't keep my scrapbook organized no matter how hard I try.
5. I can communicate very basically in Spanish.
6. I am a very passionate car seat technician and instructor. (Yeah MI passing the new Booster seat law!!)
7. I love listening to audiobooks on my Mp3 player. I never listened to them on CD or tape but love them in this format.

I know I'm supposed to tag 7 other people but I think everyone who reads this has already been tagged so this one will stop here. Thanks Lan for tagging me!

Random Pictures

From my Shack Trip in mid-March. We had a great time and I got a ton accomplished:

Me scrapping at my table. Not a great picture. Have to remember to find something thinner to layer under that shirt!

One of my favorite layouts I did while there:

A very cute picture of Gabriele that Randy took while visiting the butterfly exhibit at Frederik Meijer Gardens:

And finally two of Callie and Teddy playing:

Putting a paw on Callie's head is Teddy's way of keeping Callie from attacking:

Didn't work this time though. Almost looks like they are hugging if I didn't know they were play fighting with each other:

Easter

Just a few pictures from Easter:

Me and John at Lisa's House:

Gabriele (Randy's Daughter) with the Easter Bunny:

Ice

Here are the long promised pictures of the ice at the end of our driveway. Thankfully the ice is now gone, but when it first started to warm up, we decided it would be a good idea to start chipping off all the ice that had built up. We had no idea how thick it actually was. John started chipping at it and it came up in large pieces that were over 4 inches thick. While we did get all the ice off the driveway, quite a bit was built up on the road, so we had a large drop off when pulling into the driveway. We had to pull in really slowly or we would bottom out our cars.

Driveway with pieces of ice chipped up:


One of the thicker pieces of ice:


John removing some of the larger pieces: