Engagement

Sorry all of these posts are at the same time and the events all happened a while ago, but it's better later than never, right!?
As everyone hopefully knows by now, I'M ENGAGED! Devin proposed April 14, 2009. He was about to leave to go to Milwaukee that weekend to work as an installer for APX Alarm company. We were planning on getting engaged when I went out to visit in May, and I never thought that that wouldn't be the case. He was getting everything ready and packing and when I got off of work, he asked me to go to Walmart with him and run some errands. On our way, he turned the wrong way and he said that we were going to go to the Neilson's Grove Park (right near Walmart, and also happens to be the park that we had our first kiss). I figured he wanted to reminisce before he left, so we got out of the car and ran in the ran to the pavilion we had our first kiss at. He said, "I didn't have enough money for your ring, but I wanted to get you something before I left." He pulled out a Macy's necklace box and when I opened it, I couldn't process the fact that my ring was sitting in there! That little amazing liar of mine got down on he knee and all I could say was "Shut up, shut up, shut up, etc." He asked me to marry him and I got down on my knees and we just hugged and cried. I was so surprised that I forgot to put the ring on and I forgot to say yes!
After I stopped freaking out we ran back to the car soaking wet and went back to my house to show my parents and for me to change before we showed everyone! Then we went to Devin's mom's house and showed everyone there. Devin and all his friends came over to see the ring and make sure we weren't lying! It was one of the best days of my life so far! This is a picture of all of the girls rings. Mine is the one on the thumb!

Lizy's Bridal Shower

Lizy and Nick got married May 9, 2009 so Courtney threw her a bridal shower. It was a Tea Party theme so I made the cupcakes and the large cupcake cake! It was so fun hanging out with the girls and making Lizy dress up in funny clothes blindfolded while wearing oven mits!

April Fool's Day at the office

I never pass up an opportunity to play harmless pranks. April Fool's Day was the perfect opportunity. I don't know why the guys haven't learned their lesson...why would you leave your office/desk unprotected on April Fool's Day of all days? I'm glad they haven't learned their lesson.

The Festival of Colors

On March 28th, Devin and I went to the Festival of Colors. The festival is a religious tradition for this Utah Hindu religion sect and it was located at the HariKrishna Temple in Spanish Fork. Basically you go buy tons of bags of chalk and watch some traditional Hindu dance performances. The best part comes when a symbolic witch scarecrow type figure is burned and everyone in the crowd throws their chalk! Don't ask me what it all means or why, but it was so fun and REALLY chalky! That's the only way to describe it.

Late Night Blog Addiction

I can tell that this is not going to be healthy...but thanks to my never ending mountains of homework and bottomless cups of caffinated drinks, I can tell that I'm going to get into the habit of procrastinating the inevitable calculus assignments by occupying my time with blogs.
Unfortunately for those of you who are actually reading this, 1)I have nothing to write about and 2)It's 1:30 in the morning and my grammar and humor are currently a little outta whack!
So I feel kind of weird just starting into a blog without a little intro to myself but I'm also assuming that if you are reading my mediocre blog that you already know me! If you don't understand what's going on (it's probably for the best) or you don't know the people I'm referring to, then you need to talk to me more often! Call me, we'll chat!


Everyone at work always ask me how my weekend was and I feel like they always need to be more exciting. I'm 20 years old and always up to something crazy, but nothing ever seems to stand out. So luckily last week I went camping and Steve and Ronnie (Devin's friends)caught on fire. Ok, let me rephrase that...Steve lit himself and Ronnie on fire. Wait, let me try again...Steve while holding a bottle of gasoline lit the gasoline saturated wood on fire and as a reaction to lighting himself on fire, he threw the gasoline in his hands on Ronnie, resulting in Ronnie catching on fire. Yeah, that sums it up a lot better. Phew, thanks Steve for giving me a good story to tell everyone at work. I think they were beginning to think that I'm boring! Luckily, that was the most eventful part of that particular camping trip. I don't know if Steve's eyelashes or Ronnie's back could have taken anything else!
This weekend was a lot more laid back. On Friday, Devin (my amazing boyfriend) took me to Park City and we watched a Warren Miller film (a ski/snowboarding/extreme sports documentry kind of thing) and it was amazing. It got me all excited for the winter...unfortunately, it made me also made me want to snowboard off a cliff. They made it look so easy! I felt invincible walking out of the theatre until reality sunk in; Knowing my accident-prone history, if I even came near the edge of a cliff, I'd sneeze and fall right off as un-gracefully as humanly possible.
Saturday night, I went to a Halloween party at Becky's house (my best friend). (See post below) It took me all Saturday afternoon, but I made a cute cake for the party and it was nice to see some old friends from high school. It's hard to believe that I've been graduated for more than 2 years now! Time flies when you get old!

All in all it was a good weekend that passed too quickly. And now I'm off to sleep...the best part of every day!

Cakes Cakes Cakes

Some of the Cakes I've made in the past...unfortunately I don't have pictures of all the cakes that I've made. The first two cakes were made before I had any of the Wilton Cake Classes.

1)Bunny Cake
2)Matt's Birthday Cake
3)My First Cake for Cake Class
4)JaRele's Baby Shower Cake!
5)Diaper Cake for JaRele's baby shower present
6)Birthdat Cake for Jessica's Birthday (old roommate)
7)Birthday Cake for Renee's Birthday (her favorite color is orange)
8)Birthday Cake for Courtney's Birthday
9)The top view of the cake for JaRele's baby shower (it's a blue pacifier in between the animals)
10)Cake for Wade's (one of my bosses) birthday (He loves dogs. This was my attempt at shaping the cake haha)

(This is the reverse order that they show up in! Reminder:I'm new to blogging!)

Hey JaRele...I'm blogging!

So JaRele...this one is dedicated to you!

After a long week I'm actually sitting down at the computer to blog...As you can see, this is my first real entry so I pretty much have no clue what I'm doing. About once a week JaRele will get on my case and try to convince me to write something but my claim is that I never have anything to write about!
Well...last night I went to a halloween party at my bestest friend Becky's house and I made a cake (big surprise). I was so excited about how the cake turned out that I thought that that would be a good place to start on blogging! I know that it's probably not the most exciting thing to blog about, but as you'll soon learn, I like decorating cakes, so if you wanna read my blag, get used to it! So there is the picture of my cake.
About the Cake: The idea just came to me one day and I was so excited about it and I couldn't wait to make it! It took a long time to make but I had fun the entire time!