Great Salt Lake Adventure

We really enjoyed our little trip to the Great Salt Lake, and we don't know why we never made it there before now. It was so much fun playing in the salty water and building sand castles. I of coarse had the time of my life taking millions of pictures, and I absolutely love how they all turned out.

Waterfall Hike

Curtis found this fun hike to a beautiful waterfall in Pleasant Grove, a few years ago, and he had been wanting to take us. We finally got around to it, and took some of my family.

It was a nice hike and the waterfall was so beautiful. The kids really enjoyed it. It was another fun adventure before the summers end, hopefully not the last.





Mali is a little hiker. He hiked all by himself the whole way, but took forever, cause he had to stop every few seconds to pick up a rock and throw it. It was so adorable!

The boys were so excited to find a little cave.

What long legs Alexa has!

Cute adventurous mommy and daddy (Grandma and Grandpa)!

We hiked up above the waterfall.

Malis Breakfast

I woke up the other morning to this.

Mali was so cute, trying to make breakfast for us, in our little make shift kitchen.

He threw about three eggs into the pan. He did pretty good at separating them from the shells, but I still found little pieces in it. He even put some cheese on top of the uncooked eggs, and he dipped bread into it too.

I figured he was trying to make, what we know as Walter Eggs, or in other words, egg in the middle of bread with cheese on top.

So I decided that I better make some for my family. At least he got me to make breakfast, which I usually do not do.

Yard Sale for Alexas Birthday!

On Alexas birthday we had a yard sale at Grandma and Grandpa Walkers house. We were able to make some money for Lexis birthday. We got to go eat at Chuck-A-Rama. And then we went to the store and bought Lexi lots of presents.




Eating at Chuck-A-Rama with Grandma and Grandpa Walker and Marcus.


While at the store shopping for birthday presents, Mali was dancing along to one of Alexas presents that had music. He was dancing to the song, "If your happy and you know it clap your hands". He was so adorable!!!

While we were at the yard sale, Curtis went home and decorated the house to surprise Alexa. Isnt he so cute! He loves his little princess so much!!


Alexa loved her birthday decorations.


See all the presents she got to pick out, thanks to everyone who bought our junk at our yard sale.

Shes enjoying her coloring book.

Happy Birthday My Alexa Girl!

Alexa just had her birthday on August 15th and she turned 5 years old. Our baby girl is getting so big, and so very beautiful!!! She has been such a joy to our family! She is so sweet and loving, and so funny. She makes us laugh all the time. Alexa girl, thank you so much for coming to our family 5 years ago. I love you so so very much, for always and always. I hope we can stay best friends all our lives.

Here are a few of my favorite pics from her birthday party.

We had Alexas party at this new awesome restaurant called Pirate Island Pizza. It was so much fun and they were so nice. We all loved it and are definetly going back.


All our little pirates!




We celebrated Brantons (Alexa's uncle) birthday too. His birthday is August 8th and he turned 6.



All the pirates sang to the two birthday kids. Alexa said it was kind of scary, but she liked it too.


Alexa was so excited to get this beautiful little fairy.

More pics from Pirate Island Pizza!

This place was way too fun, I couldn't help but take tons of pictures.

Cakes, cakes, cakes, I'm so obsessed with cakes!

Ok, so my new favorite thing to do is make cakes. I watch those cake making shows on TV, and now I'm hooked. Its such a fun new art medium. I love it, but now I'm eating way too much cake, and I used to hate cake. My taste buds are always changing. So strange!

So this was my first attempt at using fondant. It is definatly not perfect, but I love how it turned out. And more importantly, my two year old son, absolutly loved it. He was so excited about the suckers.

Alexas birthday was coming up and I wanted to do a beautiful cake for her, with gumpaste flowers. So this was my practice cake, and I surprised Curtis with it, when he got home from work. It was delicious, thanks to my friends Danyette and Justine, who I got the recipes from. The flowers were so fun to make!

This one was Alexas birthday cake. I really liked how it turned out. She helped me design it. She wanted butterflies, so if you can tell, I added butterflies in with the sqwiggles. And I love the touch of ribbon. It made it all come together so beautifully, and it hid my ugly mistakes:)

We had a family birthday party for all the July and August birthdays. I had left over cake and fondant from Alexas cake, so Shanae and I decided to decorate a cake. Shanae did a wonderful job of covering the cake with fondant and doing the swirls, and she even helped me make the flowers. She was a natural!

I think my family is excited about my new passion. Cake for everyone!!