School and Cake Stuff

My titles are so interesting.  :)  Megan and I made this cake yesterday.  It's been  awhile since we've made a cake, so it felt good to get the chance to make one.  Megan was asked by a neighbor friend to make it and I just helped out.  I think it turned out beautiful.  It's the tallest cake we've ever made so we were pretty proud that we were able to cover the tiers with fondant.  Yadda, yadda, cake stuff.... here's some pictures.  Enjoy.

These next few pictures are mainly for me so I remember what I did.  (Because I know I'll forget by next year).  :)  Btw, I love my class and I love my teaching partner and I love having two part time jobs and well, life is just wonderful at the moment.  The end.

Holiday Decor and stuff

Scout experienced his first snowfall a few weeks ago and he loved it!  I wasn't able to get a good picture of it, but his favorite thing to do was head dive into it.  He's such a weird dog.  

We thought it was so hilarious that his dog tag collected so much snow.  This is nothing!  That snowball got so huge.  

 Isn't he the cutest dog ever?  Love that weirdo.

I decorated for Christmas last night...in like less than an hour.  That's a world record folks!  I usually spend DAYS decorating for Christmas.  Alas, we just don't have the space for all my decor this year so I had to be very selective.  The biggest thing I had to leave out was our tree.   I LOVE our tree.  I know it's silly, but it's seriously so hard for me to not have that set up.  (I'm weird, I know).  

I had high hopes of getting a real tree this year, but those were dashed quickly.  I couldn't find one small enough for our space, I didn't realize the up-keep that was required of real trees, we have a PUPPY that would most likely tear it to shreds...  So, we settled on this... 

But I wouldn't really call it "settling".  It's not real, and it's only about 3 feet tall, but I think it's adorable.  Plus, we have it resting on our plant stand so that Scout can't get to it. Win, win right!?  I decorated it with all the ornaments we've collected throughout our marriage.  We also painted some ornaments a few weeks ago.  

We've got this thing going where we each plan a date night each month and you HAVE to do what we plan. I planned painting one night, so we each painted two ornaments.  Other date nights include going to Heebeegeebeez, buying Magic cards, going home and playing Magic the Gathering.  (Who do you think planned that date night?!).  :)

 Here's just a little taste of the ornaments we made.  Those that understand Dave's sense of humor will understand his.  If you can't tell, the penguin is smoking a cigarette.  So festive.  His words... "That poor penguin is down on his luck."  That man, I tell you...

 Here's our ornament for this year.  I'm Dopey and Dave is Grumpy.  (Dave isn't really too fond of the holidays)  so when I saw this ornament I just knew we had to get it.  He was not pleased with my humor.  Haha.  Oh well, I still think it's funny.  :)

 Happy holidays everyone!

For those of you that are preparing for finals, GOOD LUCK!  I do NOT envy you, but I'll be thinking of you.  :)