The Wedding Cake

On the third Wednesday every month, I have my Bunco night. I love Bunco night, it gives me a chance to get out of the house and socialize with adults. Without, I think I would be in a constant state of babbling, blowing raspberries and various degrees of vocal cord practices with Ava. In the Bunco group there is a grandma, mom and daughter, which is always fun and entertaining to witness the fun dynamic. Several weeks ago while I was in the middle of frosting an anniversary cake with my mom, I got a call from Sandy (the grandma). She told me her granddaughter was going to get married on November 1st, and had tried to plan her own wedding, as best as she could. Sandy then asked me if I would be able to make her a wedding cake, "Something small. Nice. Simple." She said. She asked for a vanilla cake with chocolate filling. I asked what the wedding colors were (cream and mauve) and if they had a cake topper or not. Before she had the chance to tell me they didn't have a topper, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I planned to do the cake in segments over three days, starting on Friday. I am so very, very glad I gave myself a three day window. This poor cake, everything you could imagine go wrong, went wrong. My mom was over Friday and witnessed the biggest debacle in the whole world. Only four people know what happened, Aaron, Mom, Ava and Myself. I hoping no one talks.

My mom came to my rescue and took the pans home and re-baked my cakes as I was choking back a complete break down. I'm still blaming it on being pregnant. Needless to say, I don't have a lot of process pictures but I do have quite a few of the finished product.

Trick or Treat?

We had bought trick or treater candy several times over the past month, all which ended up in the same place, in our tummies, on our thighs and I think I even noticed a new little bulge on my behind. Since it was Ava's first Halloween, I had debated between doing the whole "Halloween thing" or not. We had made plans to meet our friends downtown, their daughter Ashley was going as a teddy bear. So, in September, I bought Ava a pink long sleeve onesie with a glow in the dark skeleton and for a while thought that would be the extent of it, that was until I ran out of powdered sugar.

I was asked to bake a friends wedding cake, due November 1st so when I set out to work on the frosting on Friday, I was frustrated to find I had used all my confectioners sugar so soon. I thought the Grocery Outlet would be fast and close to both my home and Dutch Brothers so I went there after I got my little 8oz. Ugh, no sugar. Kmart. Dang it! No sugar. As I was heading out I heard over the loud speaker that all costumes were 50% off. Huh, it wouldn't hurt to procrastinate going to the market a little longer. We made our way to the garden center where aisles of costumes hung. I looked, pointed various things out to Ava, then it happened. In the back corner, was the ultimate, perfect costume...






I think this last one is my favorite, Ava eating hay while her friend cried. Ava loves giraffeys, and loved talking and laughing to her new friend, her costume.