Halloween

Below are pictures of our neighborhood Halloween party. I'm glad we finally have pictures of our friends, so you can see them. Halloween was a pretty busy day. My work had a company wide party (1000 people) with a ton of booths and food (which, of course, was provided by us, the cafe and bakery). Poor David had to eat the food there so we could have a free dinner on his birthday-- I had no time to fix anything! Then we headed to the neighborhood party stayed for an hour or two and it was off to bed. We did celebrate David's birthday on Sat night with Chipotle Burrito and Blockbuster rentals :)

Justin, Cassi, and their son Cody the Monkey

Me and David-- ok so we went as each other, and I don't normally wear a pepper chef's hat but I thought it would enhance his outfit-- notice he is even wearing my cafe name tag :)

Porter Kuster, the CSU football player with a kool-aid mustache-- we babysit him everyweek, and he is a hoot

Steph, the Dragon, she spent so much time making this costume last year that she decided to wear it again

David and Marshall, the Headless Horseman

Chloe the Buffalo, and Ariel the Kitten-- they actually just moved out of the neighborhood, but we hope to keep in touch

Me, showing of David's molecule that I poorly re-drew-- I thought it made a nice logo for the plain chemistry jacket

the close up of the molecule "logo"- i did a pretty good job i think for having absolutely NO IDEA what i was drawing-- well, then again, i have no idea if i did a good job or not :)

Marshall (headless horseman) and David carving pumpkins, I must say that David cannot do anything half-hartedly-- he worked very dilligently on this pumpkin for a long time

here is the finished product, I was proud of him!

Mark and Steph-- he is a lot more lively in person:)

Grayson, two and a half months old, he is Porter's brother and we babysit him too

all the guys, and the world's biggest pumpkin

Endowing Generations

Our church has just finished a campaign to pay off it's building debt in order to "endow generations" more believers with more money for ministries, and new churches. Instead of paying off 2 million in interest over 20 years, they decided to pay have a campaign to pay it off in three years so the money could go elsewhere. David and I feel really fortunate to be a part of a church that has this kind of vision. We normally have about 500 "members" at our church-- I don't think we have placed membership yet, but we are anyways. And the total ammount given was 1.1 million! Which is over half to pay off the church.

Jen and I were asked to make cake for the celebration event that was on Sunday.
Here are some pics of that.



Stay tuned for Halloween pics :)

New Cake

I think this will be our last cake of the year. I wanted to post some pics of it and, also, there is a picture of me (in my work getup) and Jen (who I have been doing all these cakes with), who is an amazingly talented artist and cake decorator.



David is behind this picture holding a yellow umbrella! He came along as our professional umbrella holder because it was raining when we were delivering the cake.



Here is a pic of the whole banquet room in the background. I thought the tinsel on the ceiling was a nice contrast :)

Our Vacation

David went in the Spring to a time share/ discount club sell, and just for going he won a two nights free stay at a Holiday Inn. We really lucked out because they just pick for you and you take whichever Holiday Inn you get near the city you choose. Well, the downtown Denver Holiday Inn (which was what they chose for us!) just turned into a Crowne Plaza Hotel. So we got to stay in a really, really nice room for free. We felt really blessed by this, and we had a relaxing fun time being tourists where we live. We went to the Celestial Seasonings Plant in Boulder and took the tour of the factory and how they package and make their teas. There was one room just for the peppermint and spearmint which smelled heavenly. We also got to go to the ESPN zone to watch the Sunday night game on the big screen (I thought we could do that for David since most of the vacation was things I considered a little more fun:). We also went shopping, toured the state capitol building, and tried to get into a sold out Rockies game-- the tiebreaker game which they won! So instead we got Cheesecake Factory to go and went back to the hotel room to watch tv and catch part of the game there. When they won we could see the smoke from the fireworks, but the tall downtown buildings were mostly blocking our view. It was a great weekend, and we never even had to drive anywhere once we got to our hotel. Everything we did was withing walking distance. It was great. Here are some pics from the vacation. OH, and we also went to see Sydney White the movie...... it was pretty funny (a modern day Snow White with Amanda Bynes). Below is a protest that we thought was pretty funny. There was one guy there for it, and we couldn't really tell what it was for-- he just seemed upset and wanting to practice free speech! Notice the guy who looks really interested walking by. Here are pics of the inside of the Capitol building. We got to see the State Senate, House, and Supreme Courts. We climbed up to the top of the dome and got great views of the city. I think we were 21 stories up. David had to this one of the one of the view to the bottom because I wouldn't look down! Here, we are sitting on the step exactly one mile above sea level. Some pics of our awesome room and the view from it. And here we are after an awards ceremony for David's fellowship

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