Forrest's 11th birthday

Forrest turned 11 today. He picked money over a party. So for today we had a family party with cake a couple gifts from mom and dad. He will spend his no party money in a few days. This is a graffiti wall cake.





He had 2 candles that didn't blow out. hehehe I guess that means he has 2 girlfriends.



I got him the skateboard and rain boots he wanted, but wasn't really wanting to spend his birthday money on. After he gets his birthday money from Grandma Boehme, Grandma Jensen and Nana he will go shopping with that money and the money he gets from us.

Baby shower cake

I through a babyshower last night, and decided to make a cake. I am pleased with how it turned out.

Zipporah lost her first tooth

Not sure if it was a bedtime stall tactic, but Friday night (May 2) Zipporah came upstairs awhile after being sent to bed, and was complaining about her loose tooth hurting. So I told her we could leave it, or I could pull it out now and it would hurt just a little, but then her tooth wouldn't bother her anymore. She agreed to the pulling of the tooth, so I second later, her tooth was out. I LOVE LOVE LOVE pulling out the kids teeth and am lucky because I have so many kids, so I have pulled a lot of lose teeth out.



She is happy again, now that her tooth is out. So we put the special tooth fairy pillowcase on her pillow and put the tooth in the pocket and she went to bed.







And this is what the tooth fairy paid her for her tooth. Not too shabby. We really must have a rich tooth fairy. Not sure what she was thinking leaving $5 a tooth with a family full of kids, (sometimes there are many loose teeth pulled out a week) but at least the tooth fairy is paying for the teeth and not me ;)

My second Wedding Cake

This is the wedding cake I made for my cousin Alex. I think it turned out really nice. It was a pretty simple cake. I just love how pretty it is.








This is Alex and her husband Joe. This is like 11pm the night before they got married. Who needs to go to bed early the night before their wedding anyways? hehehe

Skater cake

So I wanted to make my sister in law Laura and skateboard cake, but wanted something different. So this is what I came up with. The characters are Laura, my brother Kipp and their baby Asher. All skateboarding on some stairs, that is Laura going down the rail.






After a short bit, the rail could no long hold Laura up, so we took it down and moved Laura to the sidewalk.


Kipp decided to have some fun with the cake after they cut into it and ate some of the cake. This is death by skateboarding I guess. hehehe


Kipp decapitated and Asher smiling while doing a wicked move on his board. HAHAHA!!!!

We made it

Well we made it to moms safely. It took us just over 7 hours. So really long drive, especially for the little ones. The roads had areas where snow had been blown on it, and then it was wet and semis would splash us so bad I could barely see. We stopped in Red Deer so I could clean the windshield. So we did that, everyone had a bathroom break, then the van wouldn't start. I had to ask someone to give us a boost. So out of my comfort zone and I felt like it was such a horrible thing, but int he end it wasn't and we were on our way 40 minutes later. Chris had left the van door open the night before so we boosted the van that morning and ran it for about 2 hours or more. Then it had been shut off for an hour and a half. When it was time to go the van started no problem, then we drove for 2 hours. So I am not exactly sure why the battery failed, as I haven't had any problems since, but there must have been a reason why we needed to be delayed 40 minutes. About 10 minutes after we set of again, the highway was closed and we had to take a detour. So I am thinking since that part of the road was so bad they had to close it, and if I didn't have the 40 minutes delay, we would have been on that stretch. It had only been shut down about 10 minutes or so when we go there. Also I never had a problem seeing out my windshield after that either. Normally I never would have stopped in Red Deer, as we like to go a lot further before we take a rest break. But that's what happened, and I guess we will never know. I took a picture of one of the wheels in Red Deer. It is pretty cool with the ice. There were vehicles that had so much slush build up (and it would instantly freeze) that it went right down to the road from the bottom of their cars. It was cool to see. At our second stop I had to smash off all the build up because when I turned I could hear the wheels scrapping on the ice. yikes!!! Anyways, here are a couple pictures of the tire.

Wish me luck!!

I am headed down to my parents tomorrow. All by myself, with 10 children. So not necessarily alone, just the only parent trying to drive and keep ten kids happy. And to make my trip even more fun, this is what our weather is like.



It was so warm here, no snow in site, then all the sudden, SNOW!!!!! This is what it looks like out my front door. And it is supposed to snow the whole time I am gone, AND the snow gets worse the closer I get to my moms. But I must go, I have my cousins wedding cake to make. I am praying for good roads. We leave at noon tomorrow.



What you can't see in these pictures is that it is still snowing, and it isn't going to stop for days!!!!!