Weddings Weddings Weddings

Life is yet again so hectic that one can barely breath. That is not necessarily a bad thing. Business is great and that means I almost to busy. I've had tons of fun cakes and this week, along with next week is a wedding/grooms cake along with birthdays and 4th of July celebrations. You know you're busy when you open the door and the rush of cake almost knocks you out...yeah! So here are a few of the things I've been working on in recent weeks. Trying to thing of a good contest to do for my FB fan page. Any ideas?



Monkey Birthday


Another Monkey Cake for Barretts 1st Birthday


A Choo Choo Train Birthday

Black and Pink Zebra Birthday Cake

Black/Pink/Silver Graduation Cake

Swim Party Cake

Tea Party Birthday Cake

African Animal Prints Baby Shower

Back to Bloggin

Wow its been over a year since I've last blogged. Trying to get a business off the ground is very time consuming. Mixed with the fact that we lost 2 precious family members at the end of last year, first of this year, keeping things updated is at best difficult. But I am going to try to keep the blog updated at least once a week. I am working on getting a building to put in my back yard. Since the beginning of this year business is booming and when I have lots of cakes cabinet space is limited. We;ve done alot of cool cakes and have alot on the books. I'm very excited to say that I eat, sleep, live and breath CAKES!!!!

The New Years Challenge

While visiting with my family over the holidays te subject of weight comes up. In particular, the men. You don't think us women think we are overweight??? Well I've never made new years resolutions, but we have come up with a challenge. To start after the new year and go through Easter. Which couple can lose the most weight. Myself and hubby, my sis and brother in law, my niece and her hubby, my daughter and Sean are all on board. So in honor of this I've got alittle inspiration for us all:

The Importance of Walking

Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you, at 85 years old, to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $7000 per month.

My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60. Now he's 97 years old and we don't know where he is.

I like long walks... especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

The only reason I would take up walking is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

I have to walk early in the morning...before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.

Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise,' I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

I do have flabby thighs but, fortunately, my stomach covers them.

The advantage of exercising every day is so, when you die, they'll say, 'Well, she/he looks good, huh?'

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

I know I got a lot of exercise the last few years,......just getting over the hill.

We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Christmas..WARNING(LOTS of pictures)

So this is how we started the day on Christmas Eve- I had waited around till the last second for a store in town to get one of the main gifts that I needed. The reason I was having to do this is because I had completely missed the sale on Nov. 8 for this particular gift and had been hoping for another sale of this magnitude. It never happened...I digress. At any rate I had to end up ordering it from Best Buy, paying an extra shipping fee etc. We were planning to leave here on the 23rd to do our annual Christmas with the inlaws. I get a call on the morning of the 23rd stating that my package would arrive sometime between 8am and 7pm on the 24th!!! And we must be here to sign for it. So began round number 1 of falling to pieces. No big deal you say to miss my family Christmas? It would have been the first in 28 years. After agonizing over what to do, who could we ask to sit and wait(no one) My gracious, kind, selfless son inlaw volunteered to sit and wait. And sit he did. If I'm not mistaken the package arrived at 3pm. At any rate we have a few things in this house that are broken and in need of repair. Like several folks have gotten locked in our toilet and had to call on their cells to be let out....lol. The doorbell is no exception. So this is the sign I left on the door so the UPS would knock and alert Milo who in turn would alert Sean. Sean said I needed not worry. Milo barked at EVERY passing car....hahaha. No naps for Sean So we are off to our celebration in a little bitty town called Turkey Creek(great place to celebrate Thanksgiving) between Alexandria and Ville Platte. It storms on is the entire trip. But I am determined we are gonna make it and its gonna be good. And so here are the results....lol.

This is my man and the babies. He looks happy huh? He tells me "I have a headache Karen" I know when he says Karen instead of baby things aren't good. Being a headache sufferer myself I can be sympathetic.

Here I am with Abby and Rece who kinda has the same look as his PiPi


Here are all the new babies, Jaxon born in May, Rece born in July and Maddie born in Aug.


My sister inaw Donna who is a 4 time cancer survivor, Me, Danica, my nieces, Donna's daughters, Heather and Holly. Holly is Jaxon's mom. Do I have you confused?

This is GREAT Grandma Yvonne with her GREAT grandbabies

Abby 3, Maddie 4 mos tomorrow, Jaxon 7 mos, Rece 5 mos and Zachary 5

So it was a hot Christmas and the air at the Russell compound was not working and with 25 people in this place it made or a sorta uncomfortable visit and some cross words were spoken. This is not uncommon at our gatherings....lol. We generally have some sort of falling out at all of them. Hey we aren't perfect, but we love each other!

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And so we head on back home, all the while dreaming of a hot Christmas. Our annual Christmas routine is that we have pancakes for breakfast in the hopes that it will hold us over till dinner. But first the gifts:

This is Rachel opening her laptop (this is the UPS gift)

Kandace opening her IPOD touch. The child hinted for months and I kept telling her it was too much money

My hunny opening his coaches shirt. His big gift was a big fat Cabello's gift card

Me with my digital picture frame...I'm in love because I love my pictures so much. I also got some Apograthy jars and the the most awesome Keurig coffee pot....love my coffee too!

Milo with his bobo

The cats went nuts over their catnip toys. Have you ever looked up what catnip is? You'll get a good laugh Its just what we though it was after watching the cats in action...lol

Christmas night....what I cherish the most. This is why I had 4 kids....so my house would be full. To us adults the food was most important....however the kids would disagree.

Me and Ms Madelyn

Pawpaw got him another gift card to Cabello's....YES

Several years ago the hooligans broke one like this that I had and they've finally replaced it. Let's see how long this one last with the new breed coming on.

Maddie opening her gifts

Baby Rece opening his presents

Ms Abby finally got her own camera

Zachary with his Leapster

I've gotta say, even though it got hectic at times and thngs didn't go as planned, once it again it was a joyeous Christmas. Im blessed!

Candy Day at the Russell Camp

So no Christmas holiday is complete without having a candy making day. This is a pot of our first candy-FUDGE Yummy!!!! Danica stirring the pot. She does know how to do that...lol
Kassie researching how many cups in a pound

Making up some peanut butter balls

Taking a break to rock the Rece man to sleep. Notice the farmers tan???

Lunch with friends

Nothing like being caught with a mouthful of food....lol

Kandace describing a long ago incident involving her hands and ziploc bags. Do you remember that Ms Susie?

Done for the day

Our pralines

Our chocolate triangles...aka brownies

and the awesome peanut butter balls

the glorious fudge.

I also have pecan bars of which we got no picture, andsugar cookies. Christmas Day I will make chews and a pumpkin upside down cake. Will share the recipe later. Got lots to do. Merry Christmas to all my blogger friends

2 Days till Christmas....

And I am running around like a crazy person trying to finish the crafty gifts I'm working, picking up those last min gift cards(to stores that aren't closing) cleaning,packing etc. All with a house full of young ones, a headache and an ache in another area that I shall spare you the details..lol. At any rate one of my projects is completed. I started with an old broken down window from, replaced broken glass, brushed it clean. Otherwise it is in is orgiginal state. Printed out some pictures of my beloved family
Placed them in the panes with awesome scrapbook paper, added a bow and voila
My inspiration for a picure frame