Caleb Does Look Like Me!

CALEB AND CALEB'S MOMMY

My dad discovered this picture of me (right) and covered up my hair and WOW I saw Caleb in my face! So cool. Now I have to stop calling him "so dang attractive."

New Moon

I won this shirt at Liz Rich's party in the Raffle Drawing! WOO! Blake hates it... I love it because it's a NEW MOON shirt and IT FITS RIGHT NOW! Hoorah!

7 Months Along - Keeping Myself Busy

I am getting sooo large and in charge. This point in pregnancy is so hard because, "Wow I'm already 7 months along... but wow... I'm only 7 months along..."

Made a couple of baby shower cakes this month. One for my dear friend Scarlet! For more, see my cake blog!

And another for sweet Lisa who is expecting early December. She does not know the baby's gender so I took a fun idea from Lindsey's blog and made her cake half pink and half blue! For a game, she had to cut into the cake to predict her baby's gender!

Baby boy was the prediction!
Boy did I stay busy this week! I also made yum cake pops with my friend Amanda. They were the baby shower party favors.

And I had a ball making the little watermelon baby carriage for another piece of decor at the party.

I feel so blessed to be able to have people in my home for fun parties and get-together's! It's so up our alley to have people over. We've had tons of young men's activities, including sleepovers, Relief Society group gatherings, showers, and fun times in this home!

Farewell October... I will miss you... Til we meet again...

Our group, The Haines, Scarlet & Chris Reece, Blythe Wright, Nicole & Mayci & Tim Drake. What a fun group to trick-or-treat with!!!! We lasted 2 hours with these two little one year olds... more candy than we... I... needed! But fun!


Caleb was Lance Armstrong/pro-cyclist for halloween. He has on a real biking jersey, altered by mommy to fit his little body, cycling pants, stitched with white lines just like Ga-Ga's cycling pants, real biking gloves with the tips of the fingers cut out, a real biking helmet (mommy's), and a race number!

I love October and always miss it when it's over... what a fun October we had this year!

GI-GI'S CAT! GI-GI'S CAT! PEESE? CAKE! CAKE! PEESE?

Caleb and I have been busy around here! I got my first real cake order. My good friend Stephanie told her sister about me and I got to make her little boy's 4th birthday cake! I had a blast and a nightmare of a time! Nightmare only because I am pregnant - high emotions and many dreams. I had a few nightmares about how the cake turned out.

Overall, I had a great time and hope that it's Carson's cake of his dreams. I even dyed the yum cream cheese frosting filling bright blue to match the cake. That should be fun to eat! The buildings are dark chocolate cupcakes, cut into building shapes. They were a beast to frost, but I took my time and Blake helped me by watching Caleb. Plus it helped that Caleb took a 3 hour nap today!

We had one little mishap with Caleb sticking his finger in the cake, which resulted in a pregnancy meltdown, but turned out alright in the end. He just couldn't stop saying, "Cake! Peese!?"

Another thing Caleb begs for is to see "Gi-gi's Cat!" It's the huge Halloween on her front porch that both scares and intrigues Caleb at the same time. It's head moves side to side. He thinks about it constantly and wants to go see it. Plus it's fun to play with Gi-gi.

I LOVE OCTOBER IN TN!!!!!

This is a video of Caleb, who is still only 1 1/2, catching and throwing a football. What a crack up!

Caleb just started eating cereal and milk. His favorite is Kix. So cute!

Caleb found this picture of me and Nathalie, brought it to Blake and said, "Mommy" then made this face. :) That's what face I'm making in the picture. So we did it together!

Caleb absolutely LOVES pumpkins!

Pumpkins with face stickers are fun too!

Bellies and Punkins

Our good friends Chris and Scarlet, or as Caleb calls them, "Kiss and Karlet," (he adores them) are pregnant at the same time as us! They are having their first, and Scarlet is just 2 weeks ahead of me. We have a great time discussing our pregoness.

We went on a fun date tonight with them to Corky's Barbecue and Cold Stone, then home for some games. We ate a lot so the boys decided to take belly pictures too. I love how Blake is holding his little bloated belly up like a pregnant lady. He is so funny.

Also, we had another Young Men's sleepover at our house this week during fall break. It is so fun having these boys over. This time only 4 were able to come, so they took charge of the master bedroom with video games and stinky socks. Gotta love it. This is how we found them in the morning.

Cake Baking and Partying

I got to make a bridal shower cake for my friend Myriam. I had a blast doing a square cake! Oh so fun. Go here (or to the link to the left, "MY CAKE BLOG!") to see more of my cakes lately!

Here I am in all my roundness with the lovely bride herself. And we've been attending lots of parties and showers lately. Well I guess I have been attending showers. I love these events. Here are Caleb and Blake after last week's wedding that I made a cake for. Aren't they handsome boys???

My 2nd Wedding Cake Experience!

So I got to do another wedding cake this week. No fondant, she only wanted buttercream. Of course it took a bunch of assistance from Blake and my mom to get the freakin' huge thing finished and to the building. I swear the bottom tier weighs probably 30 pounds alone.

This cake is a little bigger than the last cake, because the bottom tier is 2 inches wider. After lots of prayer and hard work, it turned out lovely and I was sooooooooooo excited! My cake blog can be found in my blog links to the left, below the tickers.

It's official....

... Caleb could fit in with Blake's high school friends...

Caleb has made a new friend. Her name is Mayci, and she's downright adorable. Plus we like her parents, Nicole and Tim. :) Tonight, they all came over for dinner, and Caleb went in to hear his favorite song, the Black Eyed Peas song from the post before this, and he yelled from the other room, "Mayci!!! C'mon!!!" It was sooo cute. First time he's ever done that. He was SO excited she was there! Mayci is about 6 months younger, but very tough and athletic and holds up well to Caleb!