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The Cake Craze


Last summer when my cake decorating instructor asked all the students why we enrolled in the class I answered, “So I can make my nephews and my nieces birthday cakes”. Last year Julie realized that D & D think I make all their cakes (which is not true). We laughed and said they must think I work in the bakery at Wal-Mart, since this is where they usually go to pick them up. I decided then that I must not let my babies down. Claire ( my 2nd cousin and almost niece) has been the only one of my kiddos to receive an Aunt Abby cake (it was a Hannah Montana guitar) so as you can imagine, I am super stoked about being able to make 3 more of the 5 cakes this month!
(All 5 kids are in the above pic. Aren't they super fine!)


D& D are getting a Blue Angels cake with a runway (they get a more complicated cake because they have to share it. Bad for me, lucky for them). They were both so cute when Jules and I were looking up cakes on the Internet together (4 hours away from one another). She would email their response to each cake link/picture I sent. We were all laughing together, though so far apart. Love it! Anyway, it is going to be a trick for me to make but their Marmie and Mama have promised to help me assemble it. So, we shall see. David has promised to let me borrow his Blue Angels plane so I can match the colors just right (so fine, he is).


Anna’s cake is going to be a princess cake and super fun to make. I can already picture her face when she sees it…what a priceless little face! It is not the 3 tier cake she has wanted since last year, but she will have to deal with it. Maybe next year… if she acts right! I know she is going to love the princess cake and her special hat and be most happy.


I love the excitement I get out of making all of them smile and the memories we are making together. What joy they are to me. Samuel will of course get his in the fall and I do hope it is sports related because I am dying to do a cake like that. In the meantime I am making another rattle cake for a baby shower (a paying gig, I might add) and a diaper cake (another paying gig).
This cake craze will keep my mind off the move and that is a good thing!

Abby
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