Lightning McQueen

Jake and I had so much fun decorating the cardboard box we decided to make an actual cake. It was Jake's idea to do Lightning McQueen. He made it with Ashlynn and Owen in mind. We go to Jake's brothers house every Sunday for dinner. Teri and her kids have been out of town for the last 6 weeks visiting Teri's family. We wanted to do something special for them. This is what we came up with from start to finish.

Fondant

As most of you know, Jake and I love to bake. We would love to someday own a bakery. We love making desserts the most and enjoy being in the kitchen together. We have talked about trying fondant.. for a long time. We started watching Cake Boss this week and got a bit of inspiration/motivation. We have not been trying new things lately because we have been so busy with summer school. We decided today that we were going to take a break and learn how to make fondant and decorate a cake.... or a cardboard box.

Now that we have learned that fondant is a lot of work but is not that scary.. now we are looking for any excuse to make a real cake. :)

Healthy Summer Treat

One ingredient Ice Cream!

I got this recipe from ourbestbites.com

All it is is frozen bananas. It sounded good so I just had to try it out, yes Jake and I had ice cream for breakfast but it is healthy.

If you have any bananas that are starting to go brown chop them up and freeze them. Once they are frozen you just put them in a food processor and it turns into banana ice cream, Serious! I had to take pictures to prove it.

Frozen Bananas

Blending it

almost done.. it look grainy until it's mixed together

All done.. Ice cream in a few minutes.

It turned out good, I am not a big banana fan but liked the ice cream. You should give it a try! Also you can try adding frozen strawberries, peanut butter, or nutella.

911

This last Sunday Jake and I had Ryan over for dinner. Jake and I were in the kitchen and we hear a loud popping noise. We looked out back and didn't see anything. We then hear 2 more loud bangs... we looked out the front window and our neighbors Condo was on fire. There were flames up to 40 feet. Jake grabbed his phone to call 911 as we all ran down the stairs, but the fire department was just getting there. It was a 90 year old woman who's condo burnt down, she got out okay. It was so scary to see someones house burn and how fast the fire spread.

The car on the left is what stated the fire... The popping noises we hear were the tires exploding on the van.

Road Trip

My Dad does a lot of bussiness in California. McKenzie just graduated high school and I had a break before summer school started. We figured it would be fun to tag along. Us the first day. We did not wear make-up or get ready for the day. whats the point when we were going to be in the car for 8 hours?

Our hotel room in Reno,NV. We got ready to go to dinner while Dad was working.

Dad doing reports in the hotel

Mom

Outside a restraunt. I don't even remember the name.

My Dad was awesome enough to drive us an extra 6 hour round trip to see my friend Kirsi.

On our way to meet Kirsi

Kirsi had to work unitl 8 so we stopped in San Luis Obispo to walk around the Farmers Market. We had a blast!

Mom and Kenzie

Me at Kirsi's. I am really happy!

Kirsi has been making flowers out of fabric that are amazing! She was nice enough to teach us!

Kirsi with flowers that she has already made.

McKenzie modeling her headband that Kirsi helped her make. SO CUTE!

Kirsi reading to us! She is so hilarious!

Kirsi's brother Matt

Kirsi making flowers for me. I was terrible at it. Kirsi had to help alot!

Andrew and Matt

Kenzie with her headband in, me with the necklace Kirsi made, and Kirsi. I loved our craft!

The whole gang! I love them all! We had such a great time with Kirsi and her family. It was well worth the 6 extra hours in the car!

Of course we had to stop at In-and -Out burger

We stopped at Lake Tahoe. It was beautiful!

Cute picture of Mom and Dad

Just the girls

Mom, Kenzie, and Dad

Lake Tahoe at the over look.


In Nevada there is an Indian Historical sight that we stopped at. There was an Indian that hated that the "white people" wasted. So he build this little villiage out of garbage. The only thing he bought was cement.

This old car is part of the fence. It is just cemented in.

Most of their fence poles have faces carved in them

Silly Parents

Cute table

In side a cellar. Can you see the wall are made out of bottles?

Outside the cellar

Old Ambulance

McKenzie in the Outhouse. I think it is still used today. SO GROSS!

Idaho License Plate


We were going to stop at a wildlife museum but it was closed on Saturday.

Even though it was closed I made Kenzie pose for a picture in front of the door.

The only thing we saw from the museum.

We had such a great time on our trip. While we were waiting for Dad at one of his appointments we walked around a dollar store. McKenzie bought the "bump it" they give your hair voulume. We tried doing it in the car and it did not turn out so well. We were all laughing so hard.

I had a great time with my family. We did spend a lot of time in the car. We drove 2,200 miles, which equals 40 hours.. listened to 2 books on tape, read 2 of my own books, played Outburst for 6 hours, and slept! Thank Mom, Dad and Kenzie for the great time!