Cakes and Cherry Creek Arts Festival

As promised, here are some pictures of the Wedding cakes that Jen DeKorte (my neighbor) and I have done so far. We really enjoy doing this and it's a fun-- and well paying!-- hobby for us.

This is the first wedding cake we did back in March



This one is just me-- for John David's birthday party in May


This was in June, and they put flowers on it after we took the picture.




I don't have a picture for our July or Aug cake yet but you can click on this link to see the one for Aug: http://www.jakeandstephaniewedding.photoherald.com/index.php?id=60&wedding_id=132863¤t_photo_id=29

We do birthday cakes too.




This one is my fav so far. It's made to look like wraped boxes filled with chocolate



Also, back in July, we went to a huge art show in Cherry Creek/ Denver, CO. Our friends, the DeKortes (Eric and Jen, our neighbors, also are talented artist specializing in functional art) got into the show, and I thought I would show some pics to promote them. If we could we would buy all of their pieces. They are just our style.








For more information on their works and how to purchase go to: www.DeKorteWorks.com

Our Camping Trip and Missing Home

So with the new arrival of a nephew we haven't seen, my mom getting a new job at a school I haven't visited, a little brother going off to college, and many other things we are not a part of... we have been missing home a lot lately. We wish so badly we could come home whenever we wanted to see family and friends. I hope I can get better at blogging consistently and then you all can at least know more of what's going on with us.

We are settling in to a routine with David working 60 hours a week. I have had a lot of cakes lately, pictures to come :) And we are enjoying our neighborhood. Our good friends and neighbors actually had a new baby boy, Grayson, on my birthday.

Below is a picture of me and David on my birthday. He took me to Denver where we went shopping at my new favorite store, The Container Store.... if you don't have one near you I recommend shopping online- it's worth it! And then we found this neat French Bistro off 16th street mall. It was amazing and very authentic. We only got one pic though-- sorry.


We went camping this past weekend. We live in Colorado and we have only been camping twice since we moved here. We had a great getaway weekend and we were very blessed by it. We also, as you may notice in the pictures, were on a slope the whole time. You know how if you go on a bunch of roller coasters or go skating and you feel like you are still moving the same way for a few hours afterward. Well, we felt like we were leaning forward all day yesterday after spending 24 hours and sleeping on our hill!






Click on the video and see a panoramic of the area where the trail head was.

Our Summer in a nut shell

Ok, so I am really bad a this blogging thing. Sometimes I forget for months, sorry!

Anyways here is an update: So in June we went to Tennessee for my dad's 50 surprise birthday party. It was fun, and he was definately surprised to see us. We rented a car/ got an upgrade to a Fort Escape-- which was a nice surprise. We also got to see some of our friends which was great- we really miss them.

My mom and grandparents came up for a week at the end of June. We went to Rocky Mtn National Park and saw some pretty sites as well as a close up view of the Elk.

The last three pics are of David and me before we went to see Wicked the musical. It was amazing, and I would definately recomend it if it comes to your town!






Dad, Granny, and Papa

Caitlin, my goofy sister








Lake Granby, Co







And David is getting pretty good at slacklining :)

The Transformation of David's Hair

So finally, we cut David's hair. But we had some fun along the way :)

Here is one last look at the MASSIVE ammount of hair


The pony tail


The "scater boy" cut


"The Ghostbuster Do"


This is the haircut we went to the mall with. David fit right in!


This is the last stage-- a short hawk, which I tried to get him to keep but I think it's only gonna last the weekend :(

Our Home and Neighborhood

So many of you may or may not get to come and see us. We decided to show you a little bit of our everyday in these pictures and to give you a real life feel for our home there is a video at the bottom. We actually just got the guest bedroom finished yesterday (4months after we moved in!). This is a picture/ video tour (sans the kitchen-- too messy, but you aren't missing much- it's about 3' x 6':).

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD


COLORADO BLUE SKIES AND OUR HALF OF THE DUPLEX



We have nice big windows in the living room (which helps a TON during the summer when you don't have air conditioning-- yes, most homes in Colorado don't-- shocking, I know!)


THE LIVING ROOM


I am attempting to sew/ recover this cool 70's rocker loveseat thingy.....any sewing tips would be appreciated- right now we just wrap the cushions in the fabric for show :


Here is this cool Place back behind our house. I just found out that we had all of this open space, ponds, trails, and the Poudre River basically in our backyard just this week. Here is David riding his bike.


Notice the long hair:)




The tiny houses in this picture are our neighborhood.





Click play to see a "virtual tour" of our home. It may take a while to upload.