Busy, Busy, Busy!

Things have been CRAZY here these past few weeks! I havent gone one weekend without at least one cake order--most weekends usually have two or three! This past weekend was fun; I did my first cake tasting for a couple's wedding--although it was more of a "dessert tasting" than anything. They are going to have a mini dessert bar at their wedding, and after the tasting on Sunday, we decided on 100 each of: mini banana puddings with nilla wafers in shot glasses, mint oreo truffles, mini chocolate chip cookies, mini lemon bars, mini apple pies, mini peach cobblers, mini strawberry cupcakes with buttercream frosting, and buckeyes. Their order is going to be so much fun to make and I feel honored that they hired me to do it.

This coming weekend is going to be a CRAZY busy one for me: I have 3 cake orders--one of them being a wedding order! The first order to be picked up will be a 10" fondant Jake and the Neverland Pirates themed cake; I'll be making and preparing most of the fondant today so that it can be ready to go later this week. The second order up is for a 1st birthday party: it'll be 30 strawberry cupcakes with a black buttercream frosting, complete with hot pink bows on top. It'll also include a 6" buttercream cake with black fondant polka dots and a hot pink fondant bow on top. To cut down on costs, the woman decided that she just wanted regular ribbon bows on top of the cupcakes--which works for me because it means less work--I'll be busy! Lastly, the biggest cake order of the week will be for a wedding: 150 vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting and 3 fondant flowers with pearls in the middle on each cupcake, complete with a small 6" fondant cake with a quilted look on it. Luckily, I'm done making all 500 of the fondant flowers; all I'll have to do is put them on the cupcakes!

These are all going to be so much fun to make and I can't wait for the end of this week to come!

This past weekend we attended my cousin's engagement party. It was at a winery that has a barn in it, and it was probably one of the cutest parties I've ever attended. It had a very rustic feel to it, and it was baseball themed; favors were cracker jack boxes with their engagement pictures on a baseball card; their guestbook was a baseball bat to sign; and they had the CUTEST dessert table ever: it was a cookie bar where they had little paper bags (like the kind you'd get popcorn in at a baseball game) that you could fill with cookies, then they had little glass jugs of milk for each guest. It was a very well-thought out party and we had such a great time relaxing and catching up with family.

Yesterday after my clients left after their dessert tasting, Joe and I decided to treat the kids for being so good lately. Yes they still fight and throw fits, but considering how busy I've been with all of my cake orders, they've been AMAZING. We took the kids to the movies and saw Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2--the kids (and Joe and I) LOVED it! I think I might have even liked it more than the first one! I was so proud of both kids for making it through the entire movie; Maverick has been to the movies with Joe a few times, but the last time we went to the movies together was last year when we took the kids to see Brave--and Madison flipped out the entire time. I think she may have just been too young, because she did great yesterday.

Overall I'm just feeling very blessed lately; my business is going GREAT, my kids are growing up and are healthy and happy, Joe loves his new job and is doing great, and overall everything seems to just have fallen into place. I can't believe its almost time for the holidays.. its going to get even crazier here!