Busy Week

This has been a busy week for me. It's mostly my fault but I got everything I wanted accomplished so that is good. I like having deadlines because they motivate me to get things done. I knew my parents were coming on Saturday for some baptisms so I thought that was some great motivation to get some more things done for the wedding so my parents could take it home and I could get rid of it. My house is too small to have tons of wedding decorations. So on Monday morning I began my fake wedding cake project with cardboard, paper, tape, fabric, and hot glue. I am happy to say that by Friday after cutting out and gluing hundreds of flowers I finished that wedding cake. I was so proud! Seriously it was a lot of work in a little amount of time. I think it looks good. Sorry you will have to wait and see (if you care).

Don't ask me why but I'm in a Twilight mood and so I decided to call my friend Lisa because I knew she would want to watch them with me for sure. So we watched 2 of the movies last week and I'm sure we will finish our marathon next week. I can't wait to watch the 4th one again because I think the wedding in that movie is amazing so I want to get some inspiration from it.

I made lots of cupcakes this week. I swapped with the Beehive leader and so 4 Beehives and myself decorated 48 Halloween cupcakes. It was fun, Beehives are crazy. Ha. My friend Jen Holyoak threw a baby shower for her sister in law Jen Holyoak (funny huh). I offered to make the cupcakes because I want some practice making gourmet cupcakes since I will be making those for the wedding (yes I am quite aware that I am a crazy person). So I made  48 snickers and lemon cream cheese cupcakes and they were both dang good. I'm pretty sure those will be making the wedding dessert list.

Piper has been really happy and low maintenance this week. Wow what a difference, it turns out I really do like this baby. That sounds terrible, I always love her but when she screams all day sometimes it's hard to like her. I liked her tons this week. She is so dang cute!

I've been doing Preschool with Corbin most afternoons. Sometimes Gabby is there. She loves it even more than he does. I'm sure she will be an early reader as she hangs out and listens and participates with Corbin's lessons and she likes it a lot. They both mostly like it because Gobstoppers are involved. Corbin does not like preschool things very well so I found gobstopper rewards to be very helpful and effective. We all have a great time. He has made a lot of progress. We have a lot more work to do.

Yesterday we went to two baptisms. My twin brothers both baptized their daughters. It was Lance's youngest and Alex's oldest. We went to Dejah's baptism at 4:00 and then Ruth's at 6:00. Thankfully Ruth was in the first group. Hallelujah because the group was huge and we would have been there all night. Plus by that point we were all tired of being reverent. Afterwards we had a yummy dinner at Katie's. The kids did really great for the most part. We were gone a total of 51/2 hours. That is a long time to be in church clothes and try to be reverent for half of it. It was good though. Plus we didn't want to miss out on an opportunity for our kids to watch their cousins being baptized. These are some of the teaching moments. That's all!

Here is half of Piper's costume. Cute! Yes she is surrounded by chokers and I think is putting one in her mouth.

Raspberry snitcher.

I love that Gabby is playing in all of those Fall leaves in her shorts. Love Indian Summer days.

Piper loves to kick her leg up while she eats. Funny girl.

I got both Gabby and Piper's dresses and shoes at Kid to Kid. So cute. What did I tell you, I love second hand stores.

Her first piggies. You an sort of see them, they looked pretty cute.