Course one!

I completed the first course of my cake decorating class tonight and I am pretty proud of how my final cake came out.  Everything was done with icing.

Yea me!

Dream Journaling...love all the interpretations!

I was in a room by myself preparing a dessert.  I was waiting for two friends (friend I knew from college).  We were going to have a soiree.  I remember breaking 6-7 eggs into some hot liquid where they would float and fry and I knew all I would have to do was cream them when my friends arrived. I then heard/saw my friends so I opened the door and walked down a short hallway into a very large entrance room (bigger than most living rooms).  My two friends were there as well as Colby (a friend of my brother), who was talking to me about how he had just gone to a restaurant and received the largest pop he had ordered when for some reason everyone was forced to leave the restaurant.  It was then that I noticed how crowded this entry way had become and it was quickly filling up with probably 20-30 people because it was my brother’s graduation.  I quickly guided my friends to the room where I had been preparing the dessert, but somehow we got separated.  Jessica enters the room first and I joke that she should slam the door on Jeff when he showed up since he didn’t follow us.  I start to enter the room myself, but Jessica slammed the door on me and I was shocked that’s he would actually slam the door on anyone.  I open the door and walk in and soon Jeff joins us.  He starts to enter the room and then decides he doesn’t want to be here or have a soiree, so he just leaves.

Then all the sudden I am in a crowded small auditorium with just over 100 people.  We are all waiting for something, although I am not sure what.  I have a small Chipotle sack in my hand and I see several other people with the same bag.  A woman from an isle up asks how I got the sack and where she could get one.  I let her know they were handed out to the first hundred people there.  Then I remembered it was actually to the first 100 children there, and then both of my children were with me.  Then I woke up.

Cake class #3

So I am LOVING my cake decorating class.  I am so glad I decided to do this for me!  I have learned so much and tonight we worked on flowers.  I can't believe next week is the last class for course 1.  Kind of looking forward to my final project :)

Birthday

As many of you know, tomorrow is my birthday.  At it falls on a Sunday, that limits a lot of celebration opportunities as my worship comes first, so today is my birthday celebration.  To be honest birthdays have never meant much to me and the least years, pretty much non-existent.  This year, especially do the last year of my life challenge, I wanted to take some time and celebrate me.  I started the day by attending the temple with my mother.  It meant a lot that she agreed to go on a busy Saturday as she knew that is what I really wanted to do.  Then I made a cake for a family friend who is struggling with his health.  I delivering that cake and look and got to go to dinner tonight with Josh, who surprised me by asking me to go with him to the Melting Pot.  He had rose petals waiting for me on the table and of course dinner was amazing! Although today is not technically my birthday, I think it is the best one I have had in at least seven years.  I never realized how much I relied on others to make me happy and am grateful that I am finally being proactive with what I want and need!  Happy Birthday to me!!!

Practice

Thursday we are to bring to class a cake, filling and icing we made and we are going to frost our first cake.  I however, wanted to practice sooner than Thursday so this is my very first cake (unassisted)

First Class

I had my first cake decorating class tonight and I had to much fun.  I am so excited about all I have already learned, all I will be learning and the opportunity to do this!  Tonight was very basic (as you will see by my pictures) we went over the correct way to make a cake, and frosting.  How to fill and frost a cake and how to use the tools for cake decorating.  We then practiced on correctly making the star with a tip (that's is what all the pictures are of) Please forgive the large askew star, it is horrendous, but the point is the way it is frosted not the shape, at least not yet :)  Next week I bake, fill and frost my first cake.  I am so excited and on a plus side, the more I practice and the more cakes I have, the more cakes I can give to those who might need a little sweetness in their lives.  Ok enough talking, here is what I accomplished tonight:

Would love input/interpretations!

The dream starts off in some large grand hallway.  I am standing with my friend talking to him (I will call him Bob) Bob starts to wrap his arms around me but I pull away at first, and then lean into him and cry.  The next thing I know he is leaning in for a kiss and although I want to be kissed, I know I shouldn’t.  He kisses me on the face, but right on the corner of my mouth so that he does not actually touch my lips.  I feel the kiss is perfect and just what I needed.  Then all of the sudden I am in a gift shop and I notice everything is in German and then instantly remember I am in Germany.  I want to purchase something from this gift shop though so I start looking for something in English and find church materials from BYU-I there for purchase.  I was excited at having found this, so I run into the hall to tell my mom and find that I am in this enormous museum/palace/shop.  She didn’t seem to care about my finding as she was so enthralled at the piece she was looking at on exhibit.  I go back into the shop and Bob is by my side again.  Then all of the sudden this teenager starts screaming and chasing me, I only realize why when I pass a sigh posting my celebrity status for my exceptional singing of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.  All of the sudden there is a huge crowd chasing Bob and I.  Then the scene changes and I am driving away.  Bob is now replaced with another friend: Ryan.  We are driving fast, but somehow the paparazzi keep catching up.  Then the dream goes to third person and I watch as I transport from one vehicle to another.  The more I suddenly vanish and reappear in another car, the easier it became that watching myself in the dream, I had a hard time keeping up with where I was at as I looked at the long stream of traffic.  Then I woke up.