The Van Guilder Family: August 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

High School! and Third Grade! Wait, what?!!

Yesterday I took my baby girl to Frosh Orientation. She knew I really, really wanted a picture of her out front, so allowed it quickly after everyone else had left.

"Ok, did you get it?"

"Maahhm!"

Here my babies are this morning... all ready for the first day of High School and Third Grade... I can't believe it!!

Ben's teacher this year is Mrs. Price. She seemed nice and his classroom looked really great. It is in a different building than he has been in the past two years and his classroom has a door right into the Library. Very cool.

I stopped by to visit my honey and cry on his shoulder about our little ones being so grown up.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

don't forget to scroll down

I know I don't update often since I am working a lot. But on my day off I try and get a post or two or more up. If you see one update, don't forget to scroll down below it, there might be another.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Cakes

I got to be the cake decorator at the bakery for five days. I took David's camera phone the first day as I knew I would be doing a custom cake with a monkey (customer brought in a picture of what they wanted) and I wanted to show David how it turned out. Little did I know there would be a bigger surprise waiting for me.

After getting to work I noticed a note explaining a very detailed cake order given the night before for a Harry Potter cake. The customer was very specific and there was a sketch of just what she wanted... Of course the cake she had seen was done in fondant and that started me worrying as we only have frosting.

I thought the scarf was going to be the hardest part and left it for last... but was happy with how it turned out. The edible image was actually what gave me the most trouble as the printer we have is a real piece of %#*@

And then here is the monkey cake... I thought he turned out cute too, and he did look just like the picture they brought in.

I blacked out the kids names because I just didn't feel right leaving them on and putting them on the net since they aren't my kids and all.

I wish I had taken the camera phone to get a few shots of some of the other cakes I got to make. I had a lot of fun and was really happy with how they turned out. Especially the last day and a half I got to just make some really fun ones with lots of great colors and roses and the airbrush... I felt like a kid in a candy store. lol

Silverwood

A few weekends ago we took the kids to Silverwood Theme Park. They once again had earned tickets through a reading program at school.

They each picked a roller coaster they most wanted to ride and rode it together. The first was the "Corkscrew" and Ben's pick. There they are upsidedown in the front of the third car.

Myranda's pick was a wooden coaster called "Tremors". David stood in the gift shop aiming the camera at a high window with a view of the big drop for 20- 30 minutes to get this shot. The kids are in the front of the second car.

This is after the ride. They would have ridden more roller coasters, but we really wanted to enjoy the water park more this year as the weather was nice and warm.

We went on several waterslides. Some were solo some duo, and a new one where we all went on a big tube together, was my favorite. No pictures of those though because the camera was in the locker staying safe and dry.

We do have some pics of the kids favorite water park fun... the wave pool.