Birthday Cakes

Stacy's birthday cake this past weekend. Stacy plays and loves soccer!

Missionary birthday cake for Elder Stones

I've always wanted to learn to play guitar. I finally got the nerves to ask my sister if I could borrow her guitar (that sits at her house and is never touched). She said yes, and immediately started playing with it. It's so much fun and I love it morw than I thought I would, though I still need lots to learn. the hardest part so far is swtching from one chord to the next really fast. I'm having trouble with that and stretching my fingers. My fingertips do hurt right now, but I'm enjoying it.
Things that have happened while I didn't blog:
-made a Book Of Mormon cake for the missionaries our the district
-learned awesome games with the missionaries out in moreno Valley
-news: my sister Priscilla and her boyfriend are moving out to the inland empire in march.
-made cute bracelets with the young women (we had tons of fun)
-sewed with my sisters-in-law
-loving our uncle Rick that passed away on sunday. We love him so much! Our prayers are with the Campbell family.
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The Last Song

I just finished reading this book (below) called The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. I've read all of his books and all I can say is he keeps getting better and better with every book he writes. This one is the his best for me. Yes even for THE NOTEBOOK fans, this is way better than the notebook. if there's anyone out there looking for a good book to read, this is it.

Other than reading this, all I've done lately is cakes, babysitting the cutest kids in the world( though wild too), and reading other nicholas sparks. which is why i havent really blogged lately.

(i also read The Chosen One same author recently too, great book but not as good as this one)

Sunday

Yesterday after our stake conference we went to Cameron's parents house to have a birthday dinner for Rob, my sister-in-law's birthday. We kinda forgot to get him something, since we'd been pretty busy with other family activities. So I decided we'd make him a cake, just a small one just for him and his wife. I thought it turned out great what with the time I had to make it. I didn't even have an idea of how I was going to decorate, but I just went for it. I hope he liked it and Happy Birthday again ROB!

... and then on our way home we saw the hill in beaumont/ Yucaipa burning like crazy, it was a pretty scary sight in the dark! But this is the only ok picture we got of it, and it's still going :(

I can rest this week

This is what kept me busy last week! Lots of work, but I was satisfied with the result. thanks to those who wanted a cake from me, thanks for trusting my amateur cakes:)

I was literally up and about all last week, from 6 30 in the morning to 9 pm non-stop. Cameron even ditched me a bunch of times, 'cause all I was doing was baking and making frosting, and decorating.... etc.

Elide's Cake

Very huge cake, Cameron and I think it probably weighted about 75 pounds. Sheesh!

Sewing

For those of you who don't know, I don't sew too much. All I've done is a quilt for Cameron when he went on his mission, which came out really great for my first sewing project ever, and we still use it a whole lot. Ane a few months ago I attempted to make a dress, which didn't turn out and I told myself that that would be my last sewing experience ever!

I was looking through a bunch of stuff to throw out or take to the DI, and almost all my purses ended up in the DI pile which meant that I needed a new purse. I went to JoAnn's yesterday and bought some cute fabric for a purse! So this morning I got up to start my purse. I thought it was going to take a long time, but I finished it pretty quick and it turn out cute for being a not-a-lot-of-experienced-sewer.I'm very pleased with the how it turned out, I even made pockets on the insides toward the top so that when I put my stuff in it won't look saggy.

I got so excited when I looked at the finished product that I fixed a few shirts and some shorts!

It was a successful sewing day for me!!!