Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Rainbow M&M Cake

Make a white cake mix using the directions on the box

 Evenly divide the cake mix into six bowls (for a full rainbow or you can always do more colors or less colors in your cake)
 Add food coloring to your batter
 Stir in the food coloring until completely mixed in. Add more food coloring until it is the color you want. Make sure to mix completely.
 Spray two 8" cake pans really well. Take the first cake pan and add 2/3 of the batter around the very outside, do not add any to the middle of the cake pan.
 Next add half the orange to the middle of the cake pan, but do not cover any of the red. Add half of the yellow right in the middle of the orange. Tap the cake pan gently on the counter until the batter is flat (no rounding in the middle). Add half the green right in the middle of the yellow. Tap the cake pan gently on the counter again until the batter is flat. Add half the blue, tap, add 1/3 of the purple, tap. Set aside the pan. Using the second cake pan. Add 2/3 of the purple around the outside, the blue in the middle, the green in the middle of the blue, tap, add the yellow, tap, add the orange, tap and add the red and tap. Add both cake pans and bake using the boxes directions.
 Let cool for 10 minutes then turn out onto cooling racks. Let cool all the way before frosting.
 I also made cupcakes. I colored the batter the same way. I sprayed a muffin pan really well (I didn't use papers). With the muffins I add purple first then worked my way up to red. This time I didn't try to get the layer perfect and just added color on top of color and tapped the whole pan at the end. Then I baked as directed. Let them cool for about 5 minuted and turned them out onto a cooling rack.
 I used vanilla frosting between the two cakes and all over the outside and then decorated the whole outside with M&Ms. 
 I also used vanilla frosting on the cupcakes and dcorated with M&Ms.
 Once you cut into the cake you can see the "layers" of color.


Monday, February 27, 2012

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Sierra's Family Cake and Ice Cream Party


 Sierra was so happy with her M&M cake that she wanted!

 I was really proud of myself, with my moms help, I made this cake!!!




Thursday, February 23, 2012

Ted's Amazing Grades!

Ted once again proved how smart he is and brought home an amazing report card. He received an A, 3 A-, a B+, and a B!!!! This semester he took Honors English and Honors Social Studies and Algebra I (9th grade math in 7th grade), Science, Art and PE. We are so proud of Ted!!!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Disneyland Day 3 (Last Day)

This morning we got up and got ready for the day. After everyone was ready Brad took the kids to the lobby for breakfast, while I stayed in the room and finished packing. We took the shuttle to the park and made it there by 9am. Brad really want to take the boys to Star Tours, so he went there, while I took Sierra on Peter Pan again.



When we were done we met up for lunch at the Tomorrowland Terrace. During lunch we realized that the Jedi Training Academy was starting soon, so Brad, Ted and Alex stayed to watch/participate in the show. While Sierra and I went on Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Tea Party again.
 Ted AND Alex were picked to participate, so they were given Jedi cloaks and light sabers and were trained to fight against evil! It was so much fun to watch!














Then we met back up to go on It's a Small World ride. We made all the kids to it once, then Sierra and I went on it again while Brad and the boys got some ice cream.


Everyone got to pick the last ride that they wanted to go on before we left the park. Sierra picked Dumbo and the boys picked Big Thunder Mountain.
After the last rides we shopped on main street and everyone got a bunch of souvenirs to bring home. Once everyone was done we left the park, took the shuttle back to the hotel, had lunch at Coco's, took the shuttle van to the airport and came home. We had so much fun but was definitely good to be home!