Jordan's Cake

My Wilton instructor decided to have a cake decorating class for kids and I decided to sign Jordan up for it. I took her to Michael's and let her pick out the pan that she liked and she chose a ladybug. Dillon was trying to convince her to make the Scooby-Doo cake. I gave her a cake cookbook and had her look through it to see what flavor of cake she wanted. She wanted to make a chocolate chip cake but to save time we decided to use cake mix and add a bag of chocolate chips to it. While we were shopping for the mix, she decided that she wanted a Funfetti cake instead of white cake, so we had a yummy Funfetti-chocolate chip cake.

She did a great job on her ladybug! Her cake turned out fabulous and was super yummy!

Kelly... Again

A few days after we bought tickets to see Kelly Clarkson at the Del Mar Fair, we found out that she was playing the Orange County Fair. Even though Jason was a bit peeved when I told him this, we decided to get tickets to see her again. And since Tiffany has never been to a concert and she likes Kelly almost as much as we do, we got a ticket for her too. Our seats weren't as good as they were in Del Mar, but Kelly was just as fabulous.

The concert was held at the Pacific Amphitheater which is where I saw my first concert. As we were walking in to the show, I was telling Tiffany... "the last time I was here I saw New Kids on the Block a band that I am embarrassed to admit that I saw." Not five minutes later we over heard a lady telling someone... "the last time I was here I saw {insert same embarrassing band name here}." Tiffany and I just looked at each other and laughed.

The concert was a lot of fun and I'm glad that we got to take Tiffany to her first show.

Of Mice And Men

Tiffany's English class had a literary bake-off the last few days of school. Each student had to make a cake inspired by something that they had read during the school year. Tiffany's favorite book this year was "Of Mice and Men." So, we put our heads together and came up with the idea to make a cake in the shape of a mouse.

Together, we baked and decorated the cake. Actually, I made her do most of the actual work and I supervised - it was her homework after all. I LOVE how the cake turned out - I think it is one of my favorites ever!

La Habra Children's Museum

Our city has a children's museum that I have been wanting to take Dillon to. It is small and totally quaint. It has been around for over thirty years and I remember going there when I was a kid. I took Dillon and Jordan there today, even though I thought that she might be a bit too old and that he might be a tad too young. But I was wrong and they both had a good time. Like I said, it's small, so I thought that it would only take us an hour or less at the museum - I was wrong - we were there for close to two hours.

They had a play area, a dress up area complete with a stage, a "dinosaur" excavation area, a carousel and many more things. Since today is also Earth day the had a craft area where the kids were able to paint flower pots and plant a flower in it. Dillon loved painting his and Jordan's turned out great.

We had a fun day and I will definitely take Dillon back.

Quack Quack

Today I took Dillon and Jordan to the park for a picnic and to feed the ducks. Dillon was excited to go but once we got there he showed almost NO interest in the ducks... or his lunch. He did have a great time playing on the play equipment and he did feed one or two ducks. There were some little ducklings and he was enthralled with them. They were so cute! We also saw a few turtles. I have never seen turtles in the pond before (and I've been going to this park since I was Dillon's age - probably younger) so it was pretty neat. There were four of them and every time I tried to get close enough to take a picture one would jump back into the pond. I finally outsmarted them and snuck up from behind and was able to get a decent picture.

Superhero Cupcakes

Six dozen cupcakes

Six designs

Six cups of homemade butter cream

Five flavors of cake

One-hundred-twenty-nine pieces of fondant:

Seventy-one letters

Twenty-five starts

Eleven word bubbles

Eleven superhero shields

Eleven superhero mask

The Last Hurrah: People