Fondant and Gum Paste Cake Finale

Here are pictures of my Fondant and Gum Paste Cake Finale cake. I had an issue with the Marshmallow fondant. I made it myself and it was a little difficult to work with...but maybe I will get better. It tastes better than other fondants. I made the flowers with Gum Paste. I love Calla Lillies so when she showed us how to make them I just had to make them for my cake. The cake was Chocolate cake with Grasshopper cookies crushed into it and I flavored the Fondant Mint....IT was good...rich but good. Thanks to those who helped us eat it.

Salsa, Salsa and More Salsa

So I continued my yearly tradition of bottling salsa. My neighbor Jenn has joined me the last two years to continue this tradition. It's nice to have help and more supplies. This year we made some changes....we did it a lot more effecient then our first time together. And it went a lot faster. We added more peppers and onions. It was good. We bottled 70 Pints....did you hear that 70!!! It was awesome. We now should have enough to last till next season. Here are some pictures from that fun and exciting time.


The most important thing....the babysitter....Tim was wonderful to take care of the kids and play with them.


See they had tons of fun. Colby loved playing with Tanner. Colby woke up from his nap that afternoon and said I want Tanner. It was so cute.

Pureeing the ingredients..it's alot faster than hand chopping.

Me and Jenn Filling the bottles

The finished product. I had to process my bottles three times...I think I filled them too full.

Jenn and I posing so cute....I hope you realize I hadn't done my hair or showered for the day.

Not only 4 blissful years but my best friend as well

Really one of these days we will get a updated family picture.

In the meantime, I am thankful for my wonderful wife and the mother of our wonderful and special boys. It seems like it has been longer than 4 years because we were friends before that. Every day I count my blessings that I have a wonderful lady that I am lucky enough to spend time and eternity with.

4 blissful years

Happy Anniversary to the best husband there is!!! It has been and awesome adventure. Thanks for coming into my life and blessing me in everyway. Thanks for our two sweet and beautiful boys. I can’t wait to spend Time and All ETERNITY with you J

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.