Car Cakes

We went shopping at a mall. the malls here are so big it is a lot of fun to go walking through and see what stores they have here in Houston that they don't have in Salt lake. We got Rocklond a new Sunday outfit. here are some pictures of John and Rocklond already for church.

     I started making cakes again. One of John's friends is having a birthday and so I suggested I could make a cake. well things quickly escalated from there.  I have only done two cakes with fondant and they were both simple Round cakes. It wasn't until I was rolling out the fondant for the first cake that I realized this would be a little different. but they actually turned out to not be too hard to make. I don't know why we ended up making two cakes. I think it was a miss communication between John and I.
Here is the car cake with the crumb layer of frosting.

this is the car right after I put on the fondant (I was going for bright orange but got to tiered of kneeing food coloring in the fondant.)

and the finished car

Here is the other cake that we made. I was joking that it is too bad that his friend wasn't turning 8. I really like how I got the road to go down to a lower level and then it goes up a bridge to the upper cake. I don't recommend making chocolate fondant  which is what we did for the Road and the car windows. for some reason the coco powder makes it almost impossible to work with.

this was a fun activity to do as a family except I think Rocklond felt a little left out. he spent most of the time carring his sock around in his mouth. He would come up to us and try and hand us his sloppy stocking. I think he was happier than anyone when the cakes were done. 

 

 

Power

Power

these are some good stories. the pictures are just cute ones of Rocklond in some new fall clothes, and don't have to do with the story. 
     So we had an unfortunate event happen last weekend. I was giving Rocklond his afternoon snack when the power went out. I thought "I didn't know it was stormy today"  about an hour later It dawned on my that It was blue skys outside and that we were in for a fun weekend. John got home just as I was calling the power company to get the whole thing sorted out. well we figured out that something with the billing went wrong but since it was Friday the earliest it could be turned on was Monday for sure by midnight.
        We grilled some hamburgers on our camp stove and then it started getting dark. Rocklond was crying and crying because it was so dark. we ended up only lasting about an hour at our apt before we headed over to a friends house to stay the weekend. good thing too because all of our food in our freezer would have gone bad really fast. 

      the moral of the story is that we need more food that we can eat that doesn't need to be cooked using electricity. and daylight savings time is not so cool.  and thank goodness for good frineds

     oh but the story goes on...
we were still staying at our friends house Sunday night. Monday morning John and his friend left for work. I was left at the house with Rocklond. as the guys were leaving I ran out to give john something he had forgotten. I closed the door behind me and locked myself out of the house.  the real problem was that Rocklond was inside of the house!!!  now My first instinct was to start to cry but I told myself that that wasn't going to get me inside.
           I knew that I would be justified If I broke a window but  #1 how do I break a window when there is a baby on the other side? and #2 this isn't my house so I am a little hesitant.  I ran around frantically looking for an open window. I could see and hear Rocklond so I knew he wasn't in any danger so I started using my amazing skills of breaking into a house. I couldn't even get the screens off of the windows.

                   I said a prayer and I when I looked up I was right in front of a window that was just calling to me.   I knew that that was the one to open.  I grabbed a tool and pried off the screen. I could see the window was locked, but I told myself I would worry about that once I got the screen off. I finally pulled the screen off and the window miraculously slid easily open. I was able to jump inside and I didn't have to break anything to do it.

    Moral of this story is don't cry when you can Pray.

Trick-or-Treating

Rocklond looking for next years costume 

Trick-or-Treating
   John and I had a great time dressing up for Halloween. Rocklond was the little chicken again, John was a burnt crazy homeless Looking guy, and I was Miss America.  We had a lot of places to go and so our costumes sort of changed at everyplace.

   Rocklond even had a costume change and tried growing a mustache. 

We went trick-or-treating in one of our friends neighborhoods here are all of the kids. (can you find Rocklond)

As we went trick-or-treating I thought we were being a little silly because I knew Rocklond would never eat any of the candy we were collecting "for him." Well it turned out that he had a blast playing with it.

here is Rocklond sorting his candy. you can see right behind him he has made a nice straight line of candy that he has sucked on.

We had a wonderful Halloween I can't wait till next year.