A Little Bit of Everything

I don't feel like separating these posts, so just go with the randomness. This is what we've been up to the past few weeks!

First off, we live crazy lives - as evidenced by my child's hair:

Next, we took over the youth group for our church, which we were pretty much doing anyways but now it's "official". Our first trip was to ChrisTeens, the annual youth rally in Russellville. We had SO much fun, though it was an exhausting weekend.

Joel's older brother, Ernest, came to live with us for a while, these are a few photos of a hike we went on with him this past weekend.

Ahhh the peace that nature brings. Thank you God for making beautiful little things to look at.

OK. Now we've of course been doing some more cakes, which are TIME CONSUMING. We've actually had to inflate our prices so that we only do the coolest cake orders and not spend our entire lives doing cakes. It was getting a wee bit overwhelming.

A baby shower cake:

We used the center of that cake to make this little monster for the new big brother to have his own cake:

Our first wedding cake:

And the grooms cake for that same wedding.

I'm so happy that it has warmed up here. It was SO cold for the south for SO long. I felt like I should have just stayed in Alaska. At least I used AutoStart then and dressed for the cold! Ugh-hands down to all the mom's in Alaska. I can't imagine having to bundle up my little bundle every time we wanted to go outside. YUCK. (Geez, I've become such a pansy!) Ok. That's it for now.

Wendy's Visit

My dear friend Wendy came to see us in January. This is the second time since Mia was born - what a friend!!! These first pictures are of us being silly at Mear's Bluffs.

Here's Joel peeking between two rocks:

I don't even know what I'm doing, but between my goofy pose and Wendy mid-air, it's a classic photo :)

The rock I'm sitting on has like 300 feet of NOTHING below it, so Wendy it acting like she's pushing me off the rock. The only thing was, she got a little TOO into her role and actually pushed a little!!!

So here we're dying laughing once she realized that she was actually pushing, and saw my terrified face. Ha!

Whoa!

Awww....

Here we are at the restaurant watching the National Championship game - I kind of look like the Michelin Man. I promise I'm not that fat...

Here's Aunt Wendy with captain mischevious...

Thank you for coming to see us again Wendy! I miss you already and can't wait until your next visit!!!

Ice Photos and Wendy's Visit

Here are some pictures of the ice we had in Arkansas in January. Check out how small I am compared to the icicle in the bottom picture!

More Cakes

Well, as you can tell, we've been doing lots of cakes, and not much of anything else! SO... I promise I'll post more about life pretty soon. But in the mean time, enjoy these new creations!
This one was for a guy's 21st b-day, he flies for the civil air patrol and this plane is a replica of his plane.

Our school is the Yellville Panthers and these are the school colors. This was for a girl's birthday who is really into basketball.

This was for the National Championship game, Joel's a die-hard Texas fan. Brooke - we all know who won, you don't have to rub it in :) hahahaha!!! But the cake was cool!

This was a baby shower cake that was covered in buttercream instead of fondant so it's not as smooth, but super yummy. The shoes, bottle, and sports balls are all edible and hand made.

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.