My first Fondant work

I'm sure your getting sick of all these!


And here is my mom's work

Exciting News!

Well after my super long blog about how I didn't know what we were going to be doing, I thought I'd offer a bit of an update...

We are moving to Kalispell, Montana! Ever since Levi and Jennie Lusko moved to Kalispell to start Fresh Life Church, we've always felt in our heart a desire to join them and become part of this exciting work. However, it really was never the right time. Johnny needed to figure some stuff out and I still had an entire year of school left. More importantly than that though, we really wanted to be used, to really be an asset and help as much as we could, and at all the previous times we considered going, there really wasn't a need. The great staff up there had it all covered and we didn't really want to go just to attend Sunday services, we wanted to help with Sunday services! Well now the Lord has done AWESOME things in the Flathead valley and the church has a regular attendance of 650 people every Sunday!!!! I will also be done with school in 24 days, and we are both so ready to go out and be somewhere new and have new growth in our lives. We are so stoked to see what God is going to do with us up there!

We leave June 17th (probably, still got some kinks to work out). Our next month and a half is going to be so ridiculously crazy! I have 2 more weeks of school before I graduate, then I have two weeks to work full time and raise some money as well as pack up my entire apartment and paint it back to white, then we're going on a vacation with Johnny's family to Vegas, Tahoe, and San Fran where we will hopefully return the 10th, we'll have 6 days to finish everything up and say goodbye and then we're off! You think that's crazy, well when we get there, we'll have 5 days to figure out where we're staying (either we'll have a house or be shaking up with the Trammel family until we find a place) and then we will join Coy and the Fresh life youth at their summer camp for 5 days! This time is going to be so fun, and SOOOO crazy. I know I'm gonna love it but a little piece of me is really looking forward to JULY. When I can unpack our stuff into our new place and get settled, find a job, and really just find my niche up there.

What's going to be crazy is the weather I have now in ABQ will be the weather I get when I get up there in June (75ish), they got snow again! It'll be a change, but I'm mentally prepared for it, we were going to have it worse in Montreal. I'm still going to need some warm clothes badly though... I realized I still only have 5 or 6 long sleeve shirts and the rest are summery. Definitely going to have to change my wardrobe.

Be praying that God works out all these little details for before we leave as well as all the stuff once we arrive, like finding jobs and a nice place to live that fits in our budget. I'm excited to see how God will take care of us during this time because as of right now we have nothing lined up for us and we are just walking forward in faith knowing that this is the place God has for us.

Office olympics

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My brother's birthday

Dreary day

Boo! Whats with this weather?

Cindy Loo Who

So I have a school project in my Professional Selling class where my group has to sell something to the class. I decided, since my mom and I have been doing cakes, that we should pretend we are selling cakes to a room full of people needing to choose their wedding cake. So we made this cake for my class. It was fun, hard, and crazy! I love the final product! We are also hoping that it will be some good advertising for us. A bunch of 22 year olds are bound to get married sooner or later!

Happy Birthday Eion!

A cake for my nephew. The Yankee's are his choice not ours! Whole thing is edible except the ball is a real one wrapped in fondant.

motorcycle memories

Kevin miller, this made me think of you! 30 Mph On wyoming at rush hour

One stage completed

So for the last couple months I have had people at work asking me questions about how long until I graduate. I even had one guy ask me the number of days. I really didn't want to think about it. 70, 60, 50 days, they all sound pretty long to me and I was WAY too preoccupied with thinking about what's going to happen AFTER graduation. Were we going to be missionaries? Are we going to move? Am I going to have to get a REAL job? And if so, where would that be? Do we want to start trying for children? Much too much for me to start counting down for things!

Well, I decided a couple days ago that graduating is kinda a big deal and I should probably know how long I had so that I would actually pay attention to buying announcements and crap like that and making sure my mom knew so she could plan my party! =-) So I added a wonderful countdown application to my igoogle homepage! and what does it say? It says I have 38 days until I graduate!!!! That is so nuts! I feel like I just started school and it's already over!

I thought I'd never make it. I was sure I'd find a reason to drop out like getting pregnant (even though I promised myself I wouldn't) and I've had to fight through watching friends (who weren't in school) get pregnant and move away and move on with their lives while I've been stuck here truckin' on trying to finish. And now what... now that it's here? I can't believe that there is a good possibility that in 38 days I will NEVER have homework again. What am I supposed to do with that? I've been a nerd my whole life, I don't know if I've ever NOT turned in an assignment. I just couldn't do it. And I've Always had some kind of homework. I don't think the summer will be so hard, but it's going to be really weird when everyone else goes back to school in August and I don't. I'm going to have to pick up some serious hobbies to fill the time!

Graduation means something else to me- being a real grown-up. Maybe that sounds weird... ok it does. I've been married, running a household, working, plus school for the last 3 years. I guess most would call that being an adult. But for some reason, graduation solidifies it. I have to go find a job, a 40 hr a week 9-5er! School was always my break from work and now I won't have that! I still don't really know what I want to do (probably because I really do just want to stay home with kids and home school and all that Jazz) but I'm going to have to figure it out because until Johnny figures out what he's doing and starts being able to support us, I'm probably going to have to work. Plus there is something seriously wrong with my career choices- when I think about where I want to work (probably because I don't want to work long), it's always places like Starbucks, restaurants, or fun little boutiques. Those are jobs for people in school, not those with a degree! Why can't I ever seem to think of really great offices or businesses? Maybe the typical business world just doesn't seem fun to me (could be why I got an entrepreneurial degree), but the things I am interested in won't make enough money right now to really sustain. oh well.

I'm a worrier. I know God tells us not to worry, that he loves us more than the flowers and birds that he takes care of, so He'll obviously take care of us. I know. Pray for that for me. It's my flesh that wants to worry- from experience I know that when I leave it in God's hands I have so much peace and freedom from the burden that is life. Knowing always that everything that happens to us works out for the good and His perfect purposes for our lives. It's just hard to remember that all the time. Thanks for listening to me vent! :-)

Cake II final

Last night my mom and I completed Cake decorating II at the specialty shop. Our final cake must incorporate all the elements we learned in the class. So this cake had to have a basket weave, Royal icing flowers, and some color flow birds. I guess when you stay home all day with the kids you have time to be crazy creative and turn your cake into a bonnet like my mom did, but I was rushing to get home from school and was stuck with a standard cake design.

My mom also was able to take a Fondant class that was on Wednesday nights. I couldn't take it because of school but she'll teach me what she knows and we also will work with fondant in Cake III. Here's her final cake for Fondant.

Ball games are fun!

We're enjoying a baseball game tonight. Lobo's vs. the isotopes. It's a bit windy which makes it a little cold but i think it'll be a good game and I've been totally looking forward to ball park food!

Status update: End of game. The game only took an hour and a half. Score 3-0 Isotopes. I don't know if the Lobos even touched a base more than once. In fact, the picture may be the only time they actually got a decent run. In the final inning they couldn't hit anything but Fouls and one guy threw the bat into the infield twice by accident. Doug and Johnny kept talking about how they probably aren't used to playing with wood bats. It got really cold and crazy windy toward the end so I was OK with it ending early. It took 2 innings for us to get dinner. The food was alright, but I build it up in my head as though it's going to be an AMAZING food experience and it's often nothing more the mediocre. Remind me next time to eat dinner before going and only get snack food like nachos instead of wasting my money on a hot dog. Regardless though, it was still fun. We went with our friends Doug and Amanda Standridge (thanks for the blanket guys!) so there was some fun conversation and another memory made!