Tuesday we went to the library for the craft and then the story time they do called canopy capers. It is outside at noon and you can take a picnic lunch to eat while you watch. We just took some apples and crackers then came home and ate a little more. In the afternoon I worked on baking cakes. I baked 2 ten inch rounds and 4 six inch rounds (2 were for a cake for the judges to taste) and 4 dozen mini cupcakes. We also played outside for a while. Alan had to work late.
Wednesday morning some old friends from quad 2 came to play. They live in American Fork now. It was really fun to see them. I also baked 2 eight inch poppy seed cakes. They didn't come out great, so I baked 2 more just regular ones that evening. We played outside in the afternoon. That night I covered the 6 and the 10 with fondant. I also colored the rest of the fondant I would need and made the elephant and monkey.
Thursday morning I covered the 8 inch cakes and made the crab. I also just got ready to go. We got to go to a birthday party at 1 and made ice cream at the Wymount activity. I thought that their bags had leaked and it was a little salty, but they all loved it. Most of them didn't get very hard because I was in a hurry to get going. We went down to Springville and started decorating. We were able to get there at 2:30 and start decorating at 3:00. We had from 3-7. We could take the cakes with a base layer of fondant, but no decorations on it. We could have as many premade decorations as we wanted, but the assembly of they cake had to all happen there. We could take 2 assistants with us to help. I took 4 :) ( Jared, Lauren, Bradley, and Connor)....they made an exception. They were all really good the whole time. Around 6:30 Connor said all done so I decided I better be. We just cleaned up and waited for the games and judging at 7. The first game they had was a mini cupcake eating contest. Jared and Lauren had already eaten a cupcakes they had there to decorate, but wanted to do it anyway. They had to eat 5 and there were 5 or 6 kids in the competition. Lauren was going strong, but just couldn't choke down the last one...and had to give up. Jared kept going strong and had a come from behind win over a couple others. He won a Springville Art City days t-shirt. Jared also won a package of oreos for stacking the most oreos with an oven mitt on in 1 minute. Jared and Lauren also won punching bags for another game. They were supposed to launch a ball out of a little cup thing with a trigger and catch it again. You were supposed to get 10 in a row, but since they were the only ones to catch it even once they won. There was one more game, but they didn't win. There were red balloons on a table with 3 yellow balloons. They had to blow all the red off but keep the yellow on. Lauren had a hard time blowing off the far side of the table. They did get to work together, but I think they will have better luck with the game if they grow a few inches. They were finally ready to announce winners around 8. I won first place in intermediate...and was a little surprised. There were only 3 cakes entered in both the advanced and intermediate divisions and 5 in the beginner....so almost everyone went home with a prize. My prize was a cricut cake machine and one cartridge. We loaded up the car to come home. It was a long day and we were all exhausted...and starving...maybe only me since they other guys had snacks to munch on along with cupcakes :) It was a really fun experience. Alan was home when we got home around 9 and got to hear all about it. I had forgotten to take the little judge's cake for the taste part, but I did have the little mini cupcakes and some frosting that I used instead of coming all the way home for it. I'm glad I didn't use that time driving...since it all worked out.
My cake 1st in intermediate
2nd intermediate
3rd intermediate
1st in Advanced
2nd Advanced
3rd Advanced
Right before she had to drop out
the winner!
Lauren getting some expert advice on a rose.
Friday we got up and got ready to go back to Springville for the children's art festival. There are about 15...maybe 20 booths set up with a different art project at each one. You just go from booth to booth. Once you do 5 you can get a little prize like some markers or crayons. These guys had a fun time getting to make and do everything. Then we had a picnic lunch there in the park. Well it is just in the grass out front of the art museum and we just ate there close too. One of my friends from my freshman year works at the art museum and helps plan and put it on. It is always fun to see her there. It wasn't as crowded as last year which made staying in the shade easier. After we ate we walked through the quilt show which was across the street. Then we went and played at the new splash pad in Springville. We had to check out what it was really like :) It was a super fun little day trip. We watched Rescuers Down under that night while we ate our fishsticks and jojos...I was tired! Alan had to work late again.
Saturday we had a slow morning then hurried down to the Springville's grand parade. Alan had to go to work. We just went to the end of the parade and got a nice shady spot on the street to sit. Jared, Lauren and Bradley got plenty of candy. We hurried after it was over so we could pick up Brett and go to the Utah Lake Festival. We walked through the booths and played the games and learned all about water conservation....and things like that. We got to do practice fishing. I told Brett that was my kind of fishing...no live bait, no real fish, you still threw them back when you were done...back up on the hill. The boy scout there helping out looked at me like I was crazy. Since it was free fishing day in Utah and they had poles and bait you could check out we did go real fishing. But let me tell you I was super glad Brett was there to bait the hooks :) I would have done it, but glad Brett was willing. Thanks Brett! Brett did say "I don't know if I can be a PA. I'm feeling bad for this worm." I think we fished for 25 minutes or so. That was plenty long for all of us. We caught our tree branches snagged our lines and took our turns casting and reeling it in. We checked out 3 rods, but we could only cast with 2...the third just didn't work. There was a nice boy close by who didn't think we knew what we were doing...and we didn't really...who tried to help. He couldn't get it to work either. Brett came and played at our house with us for a few minutes but had to get home for a date. We went to winco. On the way home I let them stop at the splash pad at the Riverwoods for 10 min then we came back and had dinner. We had english muffins and scrambled eggs. Then we took the cake outside to share with all our neighbors. They ate the 8 and the 10 for us and we have been chipping away on the sixes. Alan got home a little after 8 when we were on our way back inside.
Watching in the shade...
but you gotta collect the candy
My kind of fishing
He looks like a little Huck Fin sitting there fishing.
Cake party!
Sunday was a nice normal relaxing day. Alan went and had an ecclesiastical endorsement interview. We are hoping he'll need it in the fall. I did singing time. We learned My Dad for Father's Day. They are also singing I'm so glad when daddy comes home. I took the picture to help them learn the song and had them color them. They loved it! I just had 8 but everyone wanted a turn. We kept singing while they were coloring. Then we played a game with When I Am Baptized. I had parts of the song written on it with some of the words missing. If they could fill in the blanks then we would sing a fun song. If not then we would sing the song. I had gotten a baptism jumper out of the closet and had the words/spots taped on that. We just relaxed the rest of the day.
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