Rainbow Cake

Okay! 

Kristine has always been the one to make all the creative birthday cakes, and they always turn out marvellous! But I was excited when I saw a rainbow cake recipe (on what else... pinterest), at this website: 

http://www.omnomicon.com/rainbowcake . She even gives the recipe to be able to do it for diet cake which seems great, but not for a 2 year olds birthday. Anyways, Kristine said I could to try and make Tessa's birthday cake this year. I was pretty excited about it, but was quick to learn how difficult it was... Both doing the actual cake, and being creative enough to live up to Kristine's previous standard. Yikes. 

So this is what I did.

I was able to find neon food colouring! It made the cake so bright and fun!

I used vanilla cake mix out of a box, and just added food colouring. easy!

I then split each colour into 2, and took turns putting them into the cake pans. Making it opposite so when you put the cakes on top of each other, it actually rainbows. 

This picture looks so cool I think. I love the way the rainbow looks! sooo pretty. 

The dishes were not as fun

This picture makes me laugh, because that cake does not look delicious. Oh the joy of icing and being able to hide it. 

So at our summer cabin in BC we have a sand hill. Tessa just loves it there and could spend all day at it. So I built the sandhill out of rice crispies. Haha. you can't see it, but Geoffs contribution was adding a blueberry to look like a beach ball. Haha. Kristine said I should make a baby (because Tessa loves babies), until she realized we would then have to eat the baby... bad idea... haha.

Ps, I do not understand how to do icing. I always fail at it. I was lucky that my design was water, and it was okay to have it dripping all over the place. 

It was so fun when Kristine cut into it. All the kids went "wwooooowwww". haha. Exactly the reaction i wanted. 

The end product! The only mistake I made (okay, let's be serious... i made way more than one mistake...), is that when i put in the dye, it was put in the cake pan as it should have been if the cake was round. for a rectangle cake i should have had the colours in a line in the middle of the pan to make it more like a rainbow so all the colours could be seen in each piece. Oh well. 

So that was my attempt at another pinterest craft! And this one was easy, everyone should try it!

Family Photos

My family is doing family photos this August long weekend. We have only recently made the decision on colours, and have been sent out to find navy shirts. It has proven to be a little difficult since long sleeves is a necessity. This is the email I sent out to the fam one evening:






Okay! We were able to find some outfits for the picture! Super cheap, and pretty nice looking too!
The only problem is we don't really know if it is what you want, so we are sending out pictures.

#1 We don't own any other navy shirts for Geoff, but that would be okay because we thought he could just wear it with nothing else underneath. The only thing wrong with this one is that it is a little snug.

#2 For Geoff this is probably the winner! And then we don't have to worry about finding him jeans either!! He will have a whole navy outfit, and it actually fits him rather well.

And then for me. We really liked this one. The only thing is that it was rather expensive, so we wouldn't be able to buy anything to wear underneath. But i figure that would be okay since then Geoff and i would match a little more if he chose #1 with our skin colour.  ...Becasue skin colour is one of the options right?

Just let us know if you need to know where we got these fabulous outfits if you would like to go and buy one for yourself!