mandatory sprinkles

I did it. I bought all that random stuff on Amazon, and I made this cake:

It tasted as good as it looks, which was a good thing because it was kind of a pain to make. But not so much of a pain that I didn't try doing a chocolate/caramel spin on it for Aaron's birthday this month!

I'm 27 years old now, and that's starting to sound a little bit old to me. I'm not in my early twenties anymore–this is pretty solidly in the mid- to late-twenties now. Or at least 27 is starting to creep up on the age when I thought I would have things mostly figured out, like skin care, maybe having a signature perfume scent, or at least knowing how to fold a fitted sheet. You know, all the important things in life. 

[An aside: how come only women have to worry about wearing makeup to disguise/even out their complexion and men don't?? Or worry about applying non-wrinkle serum? Or eye cream? What is with that? Also, WHAT IS EYE CREAM? I legitimately don't know what its purpose is.] 

At this point in my life, I'm mostly okay with calling people I don't know on the phone, eating fish, disagreeing with people out loud and not just in my head in Sunday School, sending professional emails, and driving on the freeway.

I still don't like shellfish, but I guess that's what the next 60 years of my life are for. That, and learning about eye cream. And making more cake. Can't go wrong with a life full of cake, now can you? 

roses

Today was our last cake decorating class, and I finally made a cake that doesn't look like it belongs on Cake Wrecks! I was feeling really awesome about it until Aaron and I started watching Cake Boss tonight, and Buddy made a gigantic Transformers cake. Yeah...my basic Wilton cake decorating skills got nothing on that.

cue random photo of Brooklyn trying to save Aaron from being buried in sand

Five books later we're back from North Carolina (isn't summer the best? I love having time to read for fun again!). I miss listening to the waves as I fall asleep. I do not miss the sun entering my room at 6 am every morning and waking me up.

I do miss not having to pack! Ugh. We do not like this packing thing. We've made good progress on everything except the kitchen. There is so much stuff in our kitchen! And packing all that dinnerware is a pain in the butt. Bleh bleh bleh bleh.

life as of late

So, I decorated my greenish-blue cakes in cake decorating class on Monday. Let me tell you, cake decorating is harder than it looks, especially if your icing is too thin and you put too much in between your cakes so the top layer starts slowly sliding off the bottom layer. I forgot to bring my camera...and then I couldn't bring myself to take a picture of it when I got home because it was just not cute. Not cute, people!

But that's okay, because I am determined to decorate my next cake like this (for some reason the photo won't load, but go to the link to see the most beautiful rose covered cake you've ever seen, a la i am baker).

In the meantime, Aaron and I have left for St. George, and on Saturday we'll be flying to North Carolina to stay in a beach house for a week with the rest of his family! Yay vacation! We are super psyched.

Oh, and I'm done with my undergraduate schooling! I took both my biochem and psychology finals yesterday and I am done. And so ready to take a three month break until I become a grad student!