Lots of flour. . .and a few cookies

Wow, post number three from me today!

Reese and I just made halloween sugar cookies, and I'm so happy to say that she was actually interested and enjoyed herself- I LOVE this older stage we're getting into, it's so fun! So I thought I'd put a few of the pics up here. I happened to have an old apron that my mom made me when we were all little kids, so that's why her apron says Molly all over it. :)

Running back from checking the oven,

Sampling the frosting,

Leaving her mark, and . . .

Ta-Da! All in a day's work.

Eat Cake

Hey everybody! I forgot that I wanted to refer you all to my new blog, "Eat Cake". I've gotten my wedding cake business up and running again, and have a fancy new blog to prove it. It's definitely a work in progress- I still have a huge list of to-do's and to-add's, but I'd love your feedback and/or referrals (spread the word, people, spread it like WILDFIRE!)

www.eatincake.blogspot.com

Thanks!

Meet the Flintstones!

Hello all, and Happy Halloween!

(I stepped out the front door this morning and thought the sky looked quite ghoulish!)

So I have just about a gazillion pictures to put up today, and I hope you thoroughly enjoy them.

These first ones were up at the Great Pumpkin Dinner- Reesey in her tutu, that uh, I made. I just feel so darn domestic lately! And me as the 1980's aerobics instructor, complete with head and wrist sweatbands.

We went to our ward Halloween party on Wednesday night, and thanks to some random stranger's suggestion that Reese looked like a perfect Pebbles, we had the greatest costumes ever. The thing I kept telling Ryan, what thrilled me the most, was that for the first time we would not have anyone wondering what exactly we were dressing up as. I'm sure (at least I'm hoping) you can tell from the pictures that there is no mistaking our resemblance to a certain Bedrock family. We even watched Flintstone's cartoons, you know. . .doing our homework.

Your basic Modern Stone-age Fam-i-ly.

Our little Pebbles- she even left the bone in her hair!

Here are also a few pictures of our friends at the party who's costumes were AWESOME! I'm sad though, we didn't get a picture of Bob Ross, and his wife, the Happy Tree. Alas. :)

Ezra and Kim as Mr. Rogers (complete with sneakers) and, of course, Charlie Chaplin

Stephanie and Craig as Popeye and Olive Oil- I wish you could see the back of her hair-

it was so perfect!

Pebbles found a sucker- actually, one of the other little kids found them and opened up I don't know how many and was handing them out like, well, candy. :)

So. . .basically what I'm saying here is that we had a blast. We definitely decided that we will continue to go all out for the rest of our Halloween careers.

Next on the agenda, is the picture I promised sometime last week- my newly upholstered, absolutely gorgeous chairs. (Can you tell I'm proud?) As I'm writing this, I'm remembering one of my mission companions that majored in interior design telling me about one of her textbooks that was titled 1000 Chairs or something like that. Well Wendy, this one's dedicated to you. I don't know if it's quite up to designer caliber, but I'd like to think so. :)

Oh! And I have to update on my new job. I started on Tuesday at Kneaders, and I already love it. Oh, I am just so happy! So far I've actually been doing more baking than pastry - just call me pumpkin girl, in only two days I've busted out something like 250 loaves of their amazing pumpkin bread-- try some today! (DING!- colgate smile).

Anyway, back to the job thing, I'm seriously loving it. There's just nothing in the world that can compare with doing something you absolutely love, and getting paid for it. Also, I can't say how much I love being back in the 'business'- the restaurant, customer is king, bustle of the kitchen with a million things to do rush of it all.

When I was little, my cousin Jill and I would play restaurant with her play kitchen. Maybe we were a little weird, but we would create these crazy scenarios of irate customers and people who wanted their meal just so, and hundreds of orders that had to be filled in minutes. If her parents had popped their heads in to check on us they probably would have wondered what in the world we were doing as we ran all over the room, searching for foreign ingredients, trying to satisfy our imaginary customers, and yelling back and forth to each other about the impossible task we were put to now. I LOVED it.

Yes, I am now, and always will be a total nerd.

Well, I think that's enough reminiscing for now- thanks for endulging me. :) Have a very happy, incredibly spooky Halloween everyone, and Meg, I wish you the best in your search for a costume tonight!

Be Prepared to be impressed!

Hello world! It feels like forever since I've written anything, but I think I've more than made up for it with what I'm about to write. Lots of wonderful newsey tidbits. First of all, I have a new job- that's right people, I am forever leaving the ranks of glorified lunch-ladies to become none other than the new Pastry Chef at a bakery up in Alpine called Kneaders.

Goodbye spider-webby hairnets! goodbye underaged boys who try to pick up on me! I'm leaving my scrubs behind forever, and I'm not shedding a tear! You may now applaud. I don't know if there are quite words to express the joy that fills my 5'3" soul at this thought. Nope. Can't think of a one.

But, wait- theres more! Oh, yes, besides the employment excitement, I have recently done something that is even amazing to me.

I finally reupholstered the dining room chairs that I bought over a year ago- and they're BEAUTIFUL!!! Thanks to you Upholstering for Dummies, I am a new woman. Somehow I just can't get enough of looking at them. After I finished I gathered Ry and Reese to help me ooh, and ahh.
We bonded.

Ok, so I just realized that I will have to put the pictures up tomorrow because I can't find the camara. Alas.

Oooh! The anticipation must be KILLING you!!!

Reesey

Here are a few of Reese that Melese and Kyle snapped a few weeks ago- I love them! They totally show off her personality.

Walk like an Egyptian, Romeo. . . I know, the pants are too tight.

Ryan's birthday was last Wednesday and so I surprised him with tickets to see Aida at the Hale Center Theater. We were thrilled to discover that the smallish theater was actually really good, and not small-town potatoes after all. We had such a great time- Melese and Kyle babysat our bug for us and so we actually felt like we were all cool and dating again. It was sweet. :)

The whole way home we couldn't stop talking about how amazing the play had been, despite the weird 80's twist (I'm pretty sure the pharoahs didn't wear anything near as tight as those leather pants with puff paint hieroglyphics, or have a femmy egyptian punk working on their daughters' nails). And their voices- especially the girl who played Aida- were absolutely fabulous. It was intimate theater, and I had forgotten how much fun it is to get completely caught up in the fantasy of it all.

The storyline was definitely different, but I was thinking about it, and I can totally picture the writers at work, dreaming it all up-

"Hmm, you know, I really like the story of Romeo and Juliet, but it's just so depressing. You know what should have happened? They should have been reincarnated."

"Yeah, that's it. Ok, now where could we set a story like that- I mean, who believes in reincarnation? "

" I know- Egypt!"

"That's it. Now all we need are some jazzy, up-tempo show numbers that virtually scream Elton John's name and we're set."

"Oh, man. This is gonna be so sweet."

Yeah, I'm bettin' that's pretty much how it all happened. Although, Ry pointed out that I probably ruined it for all those that don't know the story. Oh well, now at least you know that if you're lookin' for down and out tragedy than this isn't the show for you.

Its funny because both Ry and I said at the same time on the way home that you know, normally we don't believe in reincarnation, but sometimes, in the interest of a story not ending as a total downer, we're ok to let that one slide for a while. Yup. Stand up for what you believe in, people. :)