Cakes

So in October, we catered a large wedding in a town about an hour from here. My mom happened to be chatting up the bride a few weeks prior, and got the bright idea that we should do her groom's cake. The groom is a PBR Bull Rider, so we did this belt buckle for him. About a month later I got a call asking how much we charged for wedding cakes! I was kind of taken back, so I called mom and she said, "why not!" SO we have begun a new branch of RazorBack Ribs and now do custom cakes. The wedding isn't until March, so you won't see those photos for a while. But here is a sampling of the cakes so far!

Baby Shower cake

She won our coffee tasting contest and this was the prize.

A fairy cake for a girl's birthday

Kinda obvious....

Not at all obvious :) ha ha ha... This one is kinda abstract, but it's a fall themed cake. Just go with it!

My aunt & cousin share a birthday on Christmas day so we made this for them.

Christmas cake

And we have 6 more orders in the next 2 weeks! So it's a busy business. Who woulda thought?!?

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

In our continuing effort to jazz this town up a bit, we hosted an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party at the restaurant. We had about 40+ people come throughout the night and we had a BLAST.

Here are some of the faces & ugly sweaters:

A hand game that totally messes with your head. It's so fun!!!

Peanut and Kenzi making a "christmas tree" pose.

Toby and Bean about to play a game called "Norweigan Nosedive"... kinda like "Twister" on steroids. Very fun.

The newly engaged couple, Josh and Ellen:

More Norweigan Nosedive:

Family Photo

We did a snowy Christmas photo with my parents down by their creek.

Santa Claus Picture

This older gentleman in town goes all out for every holiday, decorating his entire house and yard. His Christmas tree lights are timed to music and the whole bit. Well, for the past 15 years, he goes out every night the week before Christmas and waves at all the cars going by. People stop and have their kid's photos taken with him (at least so I'm told). So we decided instead of doing the boring mall photos, we'd have this guy be Mia's santa. He was super nice, and although Mia wasn't really interested in him holding her, his beard was pretty fascinating.

Christmas Day with Grandma and Grandpa

We then went to my Mom and Dad's house to do presents and later to my aunt Gwen's house to eat and hang out with the whole crazy family.
Grandpa chose and wrapped these toys for little Mia, how cute!

Grandpa and Grandma even got a gift or two...

And We got a Wii!!!! We got rid of our TV channels so we just do Netflix and now Wii, and OH it's so much fun. Turns out I'm quite the golfer... Joel, on the other hand, is quite the bowler.

So this is our version of "over the river and through the woods" to Aunt Gwen's house. We were blessed with a white Christmas (though it was pretty wimpy compared to my Alaskan standards), but the creek crossing was super high due to lots of melting run-off. Makes for a good adventure though! (You can tell we came from Alaska with that big ole crack through Joel's windshield)

Isaac kickin' back

Tim and Lacey picking the turkey apart.

98% of my family was blessed with amazing singing abilities, I'm in the other 2%. Regardless, this is my Aunt Julie, Uncle Don, and Aunt Gwen singing some country songs....

...to which Joel and I danced :)

This is Mia being nice for the camera...

...and this is when she thinks the camera is gone !!! She's not horribly thrilled with her cousin. Clara is 7 days younger than Mia.

This is my cousin Megan.

Christmas Morning

We didn't really get Mia any presents this year because a) the kid is 7 months old and won't remember all this hooplah, b) kids always enjoy the box and wrapping paper more than the gift so we figured we had enough boxes and wrapping paper to keep her busy, c) she's the only grandchild on both sides and therefore will get PLENTY of stuff, and d) we decided to use our Christmas budget to buy gifts for families that are real poor. Thanks to Aunt Wendy, Aunt Debbie, and Abuelo Ernest and Maria, we had a few presents for her to open Christmas morning.

 I have to brag a little here... Mia LOVES books and about 2 months ago (maybe more) she picked up how to turn pages. I just lift the page where she can get her hands around it, and she moves it over! She loves to see new pictures and try to grab them off the page, silly child.