Last Cake

Today was my last cake class for course 1. It was a lot more fun then last Saturday because I wasn't so frustrated with my icing. Considering it was the first time I had actually attempted a rose, I am actually pleased with this end product. These are suppose to be roses but they look more like carnations. I did learn a lot more information today that I should have learned the second class and things would have been easier but now I know and hopefully I will remember them when I do my next cake.

Slacker

I feel like such a slacker lately because I haven't done much blogging. The newness of blogging has kind of worn down and my family doesn't look at it as much as I would like them to. It is a good thing that I have some loyal friends out there that are avid readers of my blog or I may consider putting it off for a little while because I am so busy right now. Since I have started working again for my old boss, life hasn't stopped. There is so much to do and so little time. Somehow I managed to find some time tonight to update the blog but then again I believe it is all about priorities. The blog just hasn't been a priority lately. My priorities have been my family and then when Matthew is sleeping it has basically been work except I didn't do any work on Christmas Eve or Christmas. Chris was very appreciative of that.

I thought I would post a couple more of the photos that we took recently. We just think Matthew is so cute we can't get enough of him. Hope you like the pictures also.
(Then again, how could you not? hehe)This is Matthew saying "cheese". It scrunches up his face.

Another Cake

This is the next cake that I did. I have learned just how important it is that your frosting is the right consistency. If it is too thin or too thick then you can't do much of anything. I was frustrated with my frosting this week but hopefully it gets better for next week.

Uncle Ty

Right before Tyler came to visit we asked Matthew if he could say Uncle Ty. We were actually surprised that he tried it and it sounded somewhat like Uncle Ty. If you didn't actually know what he was trying to say I don't think you would be able to figure it out. But since we did know we thought it was so cute when he said Uncle Ty. Especially since he drug out the Ty part. You will hear Matthew say Uncle Ty many times on this video but he also shows off with some other things. It is really fun watching him grow and learn new words.

Busy Week

Last week was quite full. Chris had his own final on Monday and we were glad to have his semester done. On Tuesday I went into Aggieland Carpet One (my old job) and put in 6 hours there. (My old boss had a baby last week and she needed me to help while she was out.) Then I went to my night time job, then went to book club. While I was at book club, Chris had some friends come over to the house and play Rock Band with him. I finally left book club about 12:30am.
Wednesday Chris had to go to Blinn and give his finals and thought he was going to be done a whole lot earlier, but he finally got done, and turned in all of his grades. Chris was going to teach the winter minimester but not enough students signed up so since Chris is the lowest on the totem pole, he is not teaching which makes him happy to get a longer break but he is a little sad he is not going to be earning a little money.
Thursday we got to have playgroup at my house and then Chris picked his younger brother, Tyler, up from the airport. I had to go to work that night but I was excited to know it was the last night for this year. I have been so busy lately I am glad to not have to go there any more this year. It will be a nice break but I am sure I will welcome it back next year. While I was gone Chris had his friend Mike come over so he, Tyler, and Mike were jamming out on Rock Band when I came home. They convinced me to come play with them so we had a drummer, lead guitar, bass guitar, and I came in as the singer. It was pretty funny actually. We started taking turns singing and playing different instruments. It was so hilarious. We stayed up until about 2am. We were just having way too much fun but 7am came really early when Matthew woke up.
Friday I had to go to work for about 4 hours and then Matthew and I went out shopping while the Tyler and Chris played. That night I went to the annual ward Christmas caroling. I absolutely love caroling since that was a family tradition growing up. I enjoyed spending some time with my ward members singing. When I came home I got to finish preparing my cake for my cake decorating class. My class is 4 weeks long for 2 hours on Saturdays. We have to make a cake and have it frosted for the last three classes. I didn't read the direction carefully enough and frosted my cake with white frosting instead of light blue so instead of just leaving it I made more frosting and colored it blue, then frosted it.
Saturday I went to my cake class but didn't get to finish the cake in class so I finished it when Matthew went down for his nap and decided that since Tyler wouldn't be here for any other cakes I should be his name on it. I know that Tyler is only 23 but as I was putting the number on there I started writing a 5 so I decided it was a futuristic birthday cake for him. Chris said later I could have just put my name on it after putting 25 since that is my next birthday and it is coming up in a month but I wanted Tyler to feel special so I put his name on it. I definitely need a lot more practice. It is a lot of work to decorate a cake well. I can't believe how much time it takes. It is fun though and I love learning how. We enjoyed spending the rest of the day having fun with Tyler here and that night we stopped by the ward Christmas party to see Santa. When Matthew first saw Santa he wanted to be right next to him but when Chris actually put him on Santa's nap he wasn't such a big fun. We are now 0/2 for Matthew liking Santa.Sunday Chris sang in a Sextet and it sounded really really good. I just love hearing Chris sing. It was great having Ty come to visit us. We had to take him to the airport Sunday night so that was sad but we enjoyed having him here and hopefully he will come back sometime soon.

Full Plate

So I haven't posted anything in a whole week. Can you believe it? Well, the blogging fever has worn off a little and I didn't think my family was looking at it much anyways so I decided I didn't need to post every little move Matthew did. I have also been really busy lately and just trying to keep my head above water. It is Christmas time and so things are always more hectic. About a month ago my old boss called me up and asked me to help her out. She has gone through 4 or 5 Accounting Managers since I left almost 1.5 years ago. Since they changed systems since I have been gone I can now bring work home and do it whenever Matthew is asleep. That was great to keep me busy but my boss was pregnant. I say was, because she just had her baby and since she didn't have anyone else to help supervise the company, yours truly gets to take over that role. I have so many things to do there and get caught up on while she is out it makes my head spin. Luckily Chris is almost done with his semester so he can help take care of Matthew. I am really excited that next week is my last week working at night for the year since we get a really long Christmas break this year. I am glad to get at least something off of my plate for the time being.
One thing I am really excited about is that my brother-in-law Tyler gets to come visit us for a few days this week. We don't get many visitors here so we absolutely love it when someone is actually willing to come see us. To make it LOOK like I am a good wife, I have lots of cleaning to do before he gets here. I am hoping that I will have an oven by then so I can be the good wife that cooks every night. Our oven broke again, same part, and so we are just going to buy a new one eventually and then it takes awhile for it to get delivered so we will see what happens. The part is so expensive to fix it is almost cheaper to just buy a new one but we didn't know that the first time. Oh, the joys of owning your own home.
Since my plate wasn't overflowing yet, I decided to take a cake decorating class which I have always wanted to do but I thought it was only 2 hours a week for a month. There is a lot of prep work that goes along with it and you have to buy so many things for cake decorating right now it is a little overwhelming. Today was my first class, next week I actually decorate a cake so we will see how terrible I do. After that I went to our Stake Volleyball Tournament. It was so much fun. I really enjoy playing and my ward was so fun to play with. We actually ended up with about 25 people from our ward when we thought we would barely have enough for one team. They let us have two teams so it was really fun.
There may or may not be very many posts for the next couple weeks as I try to not drown. We did take some pictures and this one we told Matthew to fold his arms but in this picture it just looks like he is a gangster.