Treats

Made another birthday cake!  Braden's cousin Jayden turned 8!!  He is a big BYU fan so I made a 'Y' cake.  I know, I know!! That blue is not true BYU blue, but I'm still working on that. Anyways, I couldn't help myself from making some mini cupcakes with the batter dyed blue as well as the frosting.  : )

I also made some cupcakes to share at the family Easter Parties!  I went to mom's family party first then ran a quick lunch to Braden before heading over to his family's.  He surprised me by saying he was going to leave work for a minute and run over with me!  We had a great Easter, I love family parties!

He Did It!!!

Braden Graduated last Friday!!! 

It was a very long awaited day and we couldn't have been more excited! I am so proud of Braden, he has worked so hard and it has been far from easy for him. Between the stress of work and providing for our family, a few health problems along the way and of course some hunting he managed to graduate with a bachelors degree in Business Administration/Human Resource Management.

We stared the morning off by watching Braden walk at 10:30.  Then Britney walked at 12:30 so we all stayed and watched her. She graduated in Elementary Education.  Then of course had our photo shoot outside with the graduates.  

The Graduates

 Family

Brit's Family

The Grandparents

Then we all headed over to Chick-fil-a for some lunch.

Then we came home and Mitch, Dave and Todd came over for a trap shoot. Todd and Braden needed a chance to try out their new 20 gauges.

And I played with Mitch's new puppy Molly.

She is SO cute!!

Then for dinner we all met back up at The Mandarin in Bountiful.

Where they started off with some tasty lettuce wraps....

Then the entrees

They have turn tables in the center of the table so everyone just put their food on there and tried some of everything.

Then I made a cake to help us finish off the celebration.  I used a cake set that Mary let me borrow that makes checkerboard cakes, it turned out pretty good for my first time using it.

CONGRATULATIONS Braden and Britney!!!

The rain came down and the FLOODS came up

The other night Braden went yet again to go help with the flood. Three nights in a row he has gone to help fill, move and stack sandbags! I love my husband!  He is so willing to serve and help others but when you just spent a week in the hospital I think you should be excused from some of that, not Braden though.  I gave him until 8 pm to be home the last night. When he still wasn't home at 8:15 I went down to find him.....

 

 I swear there was at least a qt. of water in each boot!

more cake please!

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRADEN!!!!

I asked Braden if he had any requests for his birthday cake and he pulled up this picture....

And this is what I came up with....

Levi had to help blow out the candles. Then he proceeded to tell me all the different cakes he wanted from age five up to ten, he will keep me busy.

And Kate would be our friend as long as we were feeding her cake!

Happy Birthday Braden!! Thanks for being such a great Husband, I LOVE YOU!!!

And here's some cakes that never quite made it........

 Colton's Elmo Birthday Cake

 

 Todd's BYU Birthday

 Retirement Fishing cake

 Mom's Flower Barrel Birthday

 Mom's other M&M Birthday Cake -- we made it the night before, stuck in the freezer, and it came 

out looking like this DiSasTER!

 Dad's Pop Corn Cup Cakes

 My mother volunteered me to make some cake for my cute cousin's wedding shower- 4 of them actually. They didn't quite turn out how I would have liked, but they were okay. She had a themed "Four Seasons" shower so we made a cake for each season. Luckily I have Jenilyn who came and helped, she is really good at keeping me on task, I tend to focus WAY too much on details that do not matter.  The winter cake was my favorite, but I could not get a decent picture of it.

Fall

 Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Frosting

Spring

 Lemon Cake, Cream Cheese Frosting

Summer

Yellow Cake, White Buttercream Frosting

Winter

 White Cake, Raspberry Filling, White Frosting

 

MARY KAY ORDERS??

It's time to do another Mary Kay order.  So if you or anyone you know would like to order some just let me know. I will be doing about 30-35% off.  You can email me at anniewestergard@yahoo.com or call me. I need all orders turned in by January 31st, the faster I get the orders turned in, the faster we get the makeup. Please feel free to tell friends, co-workers and family and to call with any questions.You can look online at HERE.

Three Years!

We've been married Three Whole Years today! Time has flew by, but it has definitely been the BEST THREE YEARS OF MY LIFE SO FAR!!! Braden is such an amazing husband and man! I could not have asked for anything more! We decided to celebrate at home this year and hadn't decided anything for sure, so I was just planning on like dinner or something. But Braden came home in the middle of the day to surprise me with these Beautiful flowers and lunch! (I LOVE him So Much!) Then after work we went to a movie, which I really enjoyed!

Thanks Sweetheart for everything that you do for me, and the flowers!  I sure do love you a lot!

Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday!

Karla, Jenilyn and I all celebrated our birthdays together at our parents house. Mom was so kind to have us over for a yummy dinner, and cake and ice cream.--lame cake because when its your own birthday, hours decorating a cake isn't exactly ideal to me.

 

I did however attempt to make cute cupcakes for Jenilyn with her leopard print cups and Purple sprinkles she bought.  As usual, didn't quite turn out how I wanted.

 

Then I got to celebrate AGAIN with Braden's family. We went to Texas Pride BBQ in Liberty and it was delish! I tried the pulled chicken instead of my usual pulled pork sandwich and it did not disappoint. We finished off with some amazing peach cobbler and some sort of chocolate cake, but surprisingly I enjoyed the peach cobbler A LOT more!

I got to open my wonderful presents! From the parents a cute sweater, necklace, and (my favorite) watch! And Stephanie and Dave gave me an adorable pink sweater.

 

Oh but wait, the Celebration did not end there....

My Sonora Grill birthay coupon finally came and I got to enjoy an evening out with my handsome husband along with some GREAT food!!  So if you still haven't signed up for the Sonora club, DO IT!  Free dinner on your birthday, can't beat that!

Thanks Everyone for an Amazing Birthday!!! I love and appreciate you all!!