Course II Final Cake

I finished Course II in my cake decorating classs. It focused on flowers and borders and basket weaving. All which was on the final cake. We used Royal Icing (Icing they use to hold ginger bread houses together) We made the flowers all through the month because when they are made out of royal icing they can last for years. It's just sugar, water and meringue powder so it taste like sugar but is hard and not that tasty to eat but it can make a pretty cake. When in the class I swear it was 90 degrees. My elbow pits were sweating etc....so my icing was melting as I was doing the basketweave and by the time I got home one of the flowers had put to much weight on the basketweave and it fell and exposed the cake. But it didn't totally ruin the cake. I gave the cake to the Wolfley because Craig was begining for a friday cake( which is excuse for me making him was a cake was just because it's friday and I am home on fridays to make him one)

The flowers I made and put on the cake was Victorian Roses, Primroses, Apple Blossoms, Violets, Chrysanthumums, Daffodils, Daisys and Pansy's.

My class next month is Fondant and Gum paste!! It will be fun... but it will be nice if Michaels would actually have the product in stock for me to buy for it!

Parker's First Teeth & Colby's Cute Sayings

Parker got his first two teeth this week. His first tooth came through on Monday and then Saturday his second tooth came through. It was his middle bottom teeth. He is 5 1/2 months old. He was such a good boy when he got them and is cute. His is starting to stare at people and really focus on them. He smiles at everyone he sees and smiles at him. He is a really happy boy and we love having him in our family. He has been on Solid foods for about 2 months and he loves to eat!!! He is a Davis through and through.



Colby is getting bigger every day. He is really cute and says the cutest things. He is starting to say "um no thank you" and When I ask why he does suff or likes something he say "Because I mean" For example "Colby why did you get out of bed" "Because it means I woke up". He is really into Toy story Movies and The bee movie. He will say "Black and Yellow....Hello" and he loves Buzz Lightyear and puts a golf club behind his back and runs around saying he's buzz and then he wants us to fly him and when we put him down he says "That was falling with Style". Style sounds more like Kyle. When we were camping we were all in our friends tent getting dressed for the day and Tim was taking off the shirt from the day before and right when he lifted up his arms colby said "Dad what's that smell" I about busted a gut laughing it was so funny and perfect timing. He has a cute personality and he is getting very creative.

Adding my two cents

Some of my favorite things: Molly (we miss her)



Our engagement picture! Look at how much younger we look, especially me!




Our 1st born: Colby at Birth with my hand!



Our 2nd born: Parker at birth with my hand!

Of course other favorite things include being with the family, Michigan football, our neighborhood and our wonderful neighbors, i do like to golf even though I am not very good at it.

I will be adding more of my 2 cents when I can along of course with photos.

More Cakes

I made this cake for a bridal shower my sister had a work for a co-worker. We made the cake and she didn't know if it was going to feed all the people she needed to so we made the cupcakes to match. I had a few errors but hopefully they weren't to noticeable. She said everyone liked it!! But man those flowers took all day saturday to do! But I have tons extra if anyone ever wants one like this!!!

Guests at Selecthealth's summer party!

My sister Malene works for Selecthealth and she invited me to be her guest at their summer party. It was at Franklin Covey field. We had lunch. Hot dogs and Hamburgers and everything that goes with those. They had a lot of Activities for kids so we picked one and did the face paintings. It was fun but extremely hot! The next saturday they all got to go to a bee's game and bring their families. Luckly my sister Scored enough tickets to take her and my family with her!! Colby got kind of bored but it was fun!! We got the tickets in the shade so it was perfect. The Bee's got blown out in the game so we left early! It was late for the kids too.

Me, Malene and Megan (malene's co-worker/friend/carpool buddy etc.)

Malene's face painting

I didn't want the painting on my face so I had a baseball put on my leg it was fitting for the baseball field we were at and Tim was playing in the Region softball tournament for church that day too! I also have two boys and I thought Colby would think it was cool!

New Car!!!

We are officially inducted into the "Mormon Community" We bought a mini van! We love it! It's so roomy and has such great fetures and kids are easier to get in and out of it!! Probably till we have to put kids in the back seat! We decided to finally buy a mini van after a year of hemming and hawing over it and going camping and having to take 2 cars! It's a 2008 Toyota Sienna...we would recommend it to anyone!

Working 4 Utah

At the begining of August the State of Utah went to 4 day 10 hour work weeks. The Governor wanted to save energy on the building use and Employee's travel costs and Give us an extra day with our families. It has caused a lot of contention in the office's but Tim and I love it! I had already been working them because my office was flexible enough. But Tim's wasn't so now we have 3 day weekends everyweek with each other and love it. We actually have gotten to clean our house and do yard work!!!

Cake Decorating Class

I decided to take a cake decorating class. My sister Malene joined me. She didn't like spending money on it and it wasn't good for her diet! She has done soo good on her diet and frosting I guess is her weekness. Thank goodness it's not mine. Here are the finished products for course one. I start course 2 tomorrow(by myself, well a girl from my ward happened to take it with me and she is moving on to course 2 also) One weeks out come isn't on here. We did cupcakes and I didn't have time to really decorate them and so they weren't picture worthy.

This is my first class. The butterfly fly marks are scuffed on one side because I accidentaly stuck my finger in it when cleaning up my station! It even tasted really good. Chocolate with carmel pudding in the middle.


This is my sister completing decorating her first cake. She didn't have time to finish it during the class so she is finishing at home

Her finished product on her first cake

Final cake in the last class. This Is Malene's last cake. She did good on the Roses and it was cute.

This is my last cake for course one. The Icing I had was horrible so it was hard to work with. But I have lots of trouble with the roses. but this is what I did in the end. I take my cakes to work because they are to big for us to eat at our house so I had to write something and since tomorrow we start the state employees working 4 tens I put the slogan the govenor came up with. Most of the coworkers didn't like it. They wanted to celebrate something else!!

2nd Annual Friends Campout

As a kid growing up my neighborhood would have a campout out every summer/spring as a neigborhood so I have started this tradition in my new neighborhood. Sorry no pictures our camera is broken I haven't gotten any pictures from anyone else yet. All other pictures I have posted are my sisters. Tim and I decided to stay two nights as most people only stay one. So we went up to Coalville to stay at an RV Park that has cabins camping and tent sites. Well needless to say we got their and unpacked and took a walk around and noticed none of the tents sight or anything had tables or firepits...how to tenters cook food without a firepit....well when the Ingles our friends got there we started driving around to find a new campsite for 8 families on the july 24th weekend. We went to Echo reservoir and it was like beer drinking camping on the beach of the lake(with toddlers and kids yeah right!) Well then we went to Rock port State Park and they were all full at the top campground but said there was first come first serve down below and we went down and they luckly had 5 open sites. So we reserved them went back got our money back and packed up and went to our new site. The Irelands met us there by that time. We didn't get dinner cooked or eat till 11:00 at night and since we had a cabin at the other site we had to sleep with the ingles in their HUGE tent with a blanket and sheets...it was a little chilly but we survived. and 5 kids under the age 5 sleeping in one tent....it spells disaster...but they were all perfect. I think the Ingles are the most giving people I have met. We all spent the next day riding bikes and playing at the beach at rockport. Other families came up we had the Beebes' the Catenzaro's, and the Henriksen's. The Woodruff's and the Roger's just drove up for dinner as they had conflicts and couldn't sleep over. It was fun to get to know our friends more and talk. After dinner all the kids and adults that could played football. It was fun. In the morning we all packed up and left after breakfast. Everyone who was done first helped everyone else pack up I have never had that happen on a camping trip before it was nice!! Tim and I after two weekends in a row are done camping for the year. Oh yeah the second night sleeping over my parents had brought up all the tent, and supplies we needed for the next night. We had to bring two cars up!

Davis Family Reunion July 18-20th

We went on our Davis Family Campout to a place called Red Canyon RV Park in Red Canyon Utah. It's about 15 Minutes outside of Bryce Canyon. This is about the last place in Utah I hadn't been so it was cool to see. Bryce Canyon was an incredible wonder that we know only heavenly father could make such and awesome creation. It was kind of touch and go weather. On the way back from bryce canyon to our campsite we got poured on! But it was fun. Not many of our family members could make it because of gas prices. Below are some pictures.


Colby and his best boy cousin Canyon eating dinner.





Madison and Morgan Colby's cousins eating dinner next to Canyon and Colby

Tim Kari and Colby posing so cute!!

The only hike we could go on that strollers could make it on was a waterfall. This is the kids playing in the water above the water fall.

A picture down into Bryce Canyon. We will have to go back when the kids are older to do these hikes as you can see it's all down hill then back up!

My Uncle Mike and Aunt Carma making hot dogs for dinner!!!

Grandma Davis Holding down the table cloth through the wind blowing.

Grandma Davis and Aunt Carma pushing Colby and Canyon around on the bikes...boy does Colby love these bikes

Parker and Tim hanging out while dinner was cooking

Summer Lovin'

We bought Colby a Pool this summer...here is a few pictures we have of him and his cousins swimming in the pool.