A Fabulous Cake!

Ok, so I'm pretty sure that my cake turned out "AWESOME!" I am seriously so proud of it! I didn't have a ton of time to do a 3D Lightning McQueen Car like I wanted to so I decided to do a scene from the "Cars" movie instead.

This cake was a Triple Chocolate Fudge with Cream Cheese Filling.

This time I wanted to try to stay away from the buttercream frosting that uses Crisco (I hate Crisco) so I frosted with butter frosting with a hint of cream cheese. Im going to save my buttercream for decorating because of the stiffness you need and see how that works. I was suprised at how well it turned out. HINT: I always freeze my cakes cause they are way easier to frost that way. I used fondant (which I've never made before) for the road and the checkered side border. Fondant is really cool and it felt like I was putting playdo on my cake!

I used graham crackers for the dirt and molded the Piston cup out of fondant as well. It turned out so great that I didn't want to cut it up!
I enjoy doing fun cakes for my kids birthdays. I guess its kinda my present to them. What kid wouldn't want a cool cake for their birthday! Now Chelsea is already putting in the orders for her Barbie cake ;) That will be interesting...

Davis Turns 3

A big year for my sweet Davis. I can't believe he is 3 years old already! He is in love with a few different things lately. Just to name a few:

*Lightning McQueen aka "Car Queen" around here

*Little Einsteins

*Dadddys' iphone or "spone" as Davis calls it.

*Mom's homemade pizza

*Playing with his buddy Ben

*When Daddy comes home from work.

*Sunny days...they are sparse here.

For his birthday he really wanted a "Car Queen" cake so I had to put my thinkin cap on. I didn't have a lot of time or energy (just getting over a cold) so this is what I pulled off! Pretty stinkin' good if you ask me! Uncle Luke came over (we call him Uncle around here cause he's the only family around and my kids don't know what else to call him. Davis's friend Ben came over as well to help us celebrate. We had a good time and Davis was thrilled with the abundance of "Car Queen"!

January Update 2010

This was a gorgeous day for Seattle in the beginning of February. It was about 53 degrees. Ok, that doesn't sound warm but when the sun shines, it really feels warm out!

So... I don't realize how many people read my blog! Now I feel bad for not updating it at least once a month. For January I have been:

-Looking for part-time/temp work as a dental assistant
-counting the sunny days that we do have and sitting in the front yard to soak it up.
-recovering from a solid week of after christmas vacation to Boise in which we spent the night at 3 different houses in a matter of 5 days. Ya, I was stressin'

-training for a 5K run in May (for me I need to start now!)
-refinishing my moms sewing desk
-did a working interview for a sweet dental office...but didn't get it :(
-did a 3-day temp job at a Cascade Family Dental Dr. Tae Oh & Dr. Darrel Jensen
-looking for a queen headboard on craigslist for Chelsea's room (I want to paint it cream color and distress it.)

-cut chelsea's hair off because her bangs are long enough and she wants short hair sooooo bad! She looks like a big girl now! She will be 6 years old soon!

-enjoying the warmest January ever! I woke up one day at 7:00 to run and it was 50 degrees outside...CRAZY!

-Loving that it only froze ONCE here overnight. Every morning my car is wet but at least I don't have to scrape windshields!

-Playdates with Chelsea's friends (Sarah and Ashley)

-doing Secretarial work for Primary...talks/prayers/scripture...

Thats what we are up to, lets see if I can keep this up for February :)


---this is the BEFORE picture of my moms old sewing desk.



---this is the mission style headboard/footboard I found on craigslist. Im working on painting it creme and distressing it a little.

The Lights of Christmas

I know there are a lot of cool things to do up here its just finding out about them. A friend of ours mentioned this place in Stanwood called "The Lights of Christmas" at Warm Beach Camp. It was a little pricey but I don't mind that as long as I get my moneys worth. So with 50 degree weather and no rain we decided to travel 45 min. to the Lights!
Let me just say that they totally delivered! Wow! What an amazing event! I kinda thought there might be some light and it would be pretty but I had no idea how BIG it really was! The kids each had papers that needed stamped at each area in order to get a prize at the end (that kept them busy and on track) This might just have to be a yearly tradition with us! The camp was a christian camp and we could totally tell by the people who ran it. Everyone was so kind and helpful and very kid friendly.

Some of our favorite stops were

**"Bruce the Spruce", the talking Christmas Tree. He wanted us to have a TREEmendous Christmas and we had fun exchanging jokes with him.


**Face painted with an AMAZING artist (I don't usually do that kind of stuff at fairs ect. but this stop was the highlight of the night! I would pay this guy big bucks at Halloween. Some of his 1/2 and full faces were awesome as well.





**Polor Express II, a fun little "choo-choo" for Davis's age. Carson thought it was lame but just because he's 8 years old and thought it was going to be fast!



All of these with kettle korn, cotton candy and happy kids made for a great evening (and with coupons we got in $8 cheaper ;)

**Pony rides, Chelsea's horse was named "Frosty"


We had such a great time! Davis gave this engineer bear about 6 hugs! He loved him!

Thanksgiving

This year we didn't want to travel for once in our married life...so we decided to invite the fam to our new house! We had a fun filled, game playin, weekend packed with lots of kids and lots of grubbin' food. I over estimated how much food we needed for the big day so we ended up with two times as much. Oh well, we just had Thanksgiving twice. Everyone helped make food and I made the pies and rolls (which were yummy!) I made a lemon, coconut cream, banana cream, and a berry pie. Camilla brought a pumpkin one and we were set! Enough pie for the whole weekend!

A few highlights from the games was Camilla's awesome triple play with the word Quest(I think) which scored her 75 points in one move.

Cute Fall Centerpieces

I was asked to be on the decorating committee for the Fall Social at church. We came up with these centerpieces. I think they are stinkin cute!

Package From The Clarks!

The kids got a nice surprise from our great friends in Boise this weekend. They were so excited to open it. The video tells it all. Thanks Clark Family!

...FHE in Snohomish continued

First we went on a Hayride, it was cool cause it felt like we were in Idaho again! Then we went through a little hay maze which brought us up to the loft of the old red barn. The slide then took us down into a pile of hay. Yes, I even tried it! This was the best part of the whole "Farm", the duck race. It was great fun to watch these ducks, Iceman, and Butch, are the only ones I can remember. Anyway, they tap on their house, call their names and they totally know whats going on. They jumped into the pool, splashed about and then they pulled up the net and they didn't swim but flew to the finish line (where there was food. After they were done they all jumped over the fence and flew back to their pen. It was amazing! We didn't expect to see a duck race while at a pumpkin patch! With it only being 6:00 (closing time) we decided to sugar up the kids and had some donuts w/ hot chocolate. Yum! These are the FHE nights in October we will always remember.

My First Wilton Cake!

My first cake during Coarse 1. Am totally loving this as are my kiddos. They freaked out when I came home with my cake.
Roses are next week! I have always wanted to learn how to make cute flowers and roses out of frosting.

Fall In Snohomish

We spent the afternoon at the pumpkin patch in Snohomish, and the kids had a blast.

We each picked out a pumpkin, except for Chelsea, because her class is going on field trip tomorrow to the same place. She picked one out and hid it in a special place so she could find it right away tomorrow!

The duck race was the best!

"I don't like Pull-Ups"

Davis is such a big boy! We are now doing the underwear thing. After I let him try them on it was over. He loves those Car Underwear.
He is such a big boy and has proven me wrong! I was just waiting for a lapse but he is moving forward and hasn't had any accidents. He even tells me when he has to go. Its a Miracle!!! I guess I have to endure pottytraining 2 kids the hard way before I got any easy one. No more diapers for us!!

Sunset

Aaaaah..... What a nice Sunday sunset!


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2 Days and Dry....and Counting!

We are POTTY TRAINING at the Frederiksens! Not my idea, I wanted to wait until after Christmas during the blah January rain. But Davis is on fire and wanting to go "potty" #1 and #2. He went for Chelsea a couple weeks ago before getting in the bath tub. I couldn't believe it! I didn't want to get my hopes up so I left his diaper on him and every now and then he would tell me, "Mommy, I go pee" and sure enough he would go every time I put him on the potty. So the other day while at costco I bought some pull-ups. He loves them! He is learning to take them off all by himself and getting himself on the big potty!
Soooo, we have been dry for 2 days now! I am now starting to think that this is really it! I guess Im just being cautious but he has been doing great! Since it has been his idea I would be stupid not to jump on the bandwagon.

We are happy to be done with diapers for a while and he's happy because the treats have been "num nums" or aka M&Ms or sometimes pronounced N&M's.

This has so far been the easiest potty training yet...knock on wood!


A little reward of an ice cream cone for going #2 on the potty Yea..lets celebrate!

I'm Hooked!

My grand total was $28.89 Savings of $55.87
I used 9 doublers which saved me an additional $7.65 + I got $5 in a Catalina back.
I hit up my neighbors today and asked them if I could have their Sunday ads. They were more than willing to hand them over. That is a blessing in disguise!


Only paid $8.89

I used $8.35 just in coupons for all of these items + I got 2 coupons for FREE CapriSun back

This is very addicting and a great way to stock up on food storage at a cheap price.
Since I live in Seattle now I feel the need to scrimp and save money! Couponing is the way to go, and Im finally getting the hang of it. Yippee!

The friendly orangutan that pushed his face against the glass for a picture!

Cousins at the Woodland Park Zoo

This girl loves to play outside, but somehow always forgets her shoes

From "so cute" to "so dirty" in no time flat!