New Project!

This is kind of a random post but I'm pretty excited about my new skill. I decided after watching many hours of Ace of Cakes that I needed to learn how to cover a cake with fondant. So I watched a couple of YouTube videos, bought myself some fondant (I decided to take baby steps with this. Next time I'll try making my own) and made myself a cake. The pictures basically show how it turned out.



Here is what I learned:
1. Do NOT use a cake mix cake. The cake wasn't quite as strong as I would have liked. Next time I will use a wedding cake recipe or something a little more sturdy.
2. Don't roll the fondant too thin. I was trying to make sure I had enough to cover the whole cake and ended up making it a little thin.
3. Wear gloves when coloring fondant. It's not possible to not get food coloring on your fingers when kneading it into fondant. I even somehow managed to get it on my knees...

That's about it! It wasn't that difficult and only took me about 2 hours (including cake making/baking time) which I thought was pretty good for my first time! :)

Well it's official! After 5 years of dating John and I are finally engaged. :) For those of you who have asked for the story here it is...

I knew it was going to happen last night because the ring came in yesterday and I figured he wouldn't wait. He also had told me that he had plans for us and wanted me to dress up. But... he called before he got here and said, in a sad voice "Liv...can we go on our date tomorrow?". So I decided he didn't get the ring and, to say the least, I was NOT happy. I told him fine and that I didn't want to do anything if we weren't going on a date because I had a lot to do for preschool. He somehow convinced me that we should still go to dinner because he had reservations. So we went to the Bluebird (where my parents got engaged) which was cute. As we were eating our salads he pulled out a ring he had made out of a $2 bill. The $2 bill was one that I had given him when we first started dating and he had told me that he wouldn't spend it because he was going to keep it and give it to me when we got engaged. So at that point I knew he was going to do it that night! I kept waiting and waiting but nothing happened at dinner. After dinner we started driving home and he pulled off into Merlin Olsen Park. We walked to our favorite bridge and sat down. Then he ran to his car and brought back some roses. He gave me 2 roses for every year we've been together and told me some memories he had of each year. Then he just knelt down, pulled out the ring and said "This is for all the rest of the years we'll have together". It was very sweet and made me cry, which surprised me. Here are some pictures of the happy event :)


So there's the story. I'm so happy! We are shooting for September 3rd. I had hoped for October 9th, which is my grandparents' anniversary but my parents will be out of the country. September is great though. So now comes the fun part of PLANNING! :)

One more final!

One more final left and I am FREE! I finished my STAT 1040 final and I'm waiting for my Physics one to begin. I don't know where the time went! I swear this semester just started. I'm not complaining though! Last weekend was a fun one. John and I went on our first REAL date in a long time. Most weekends consist of eating at Bajio's and watching movies at my house. This time he planned out a date for us which was really fun for me. I'd missed that. He told me to wear long socks but no coat so I was pretty confused about what we were doing. He also said that we were doing something semi-active and that there would be other people there but some of them would not be participating in our activity. I was confused. Anyway, we ended up going roller blading at the Fun Park which was great. I hadn't been skating there since I was little. I hadn't been skating PERIOD since I was little. Aside from a couple of bruised ribs from slamming into the brick wall I did pretty good. We also played arcades and won a slap bracelet and a little green popper thing. Then we had dinner at El Sol and played a board game with Ester and Scott. Turned out to be a great night. :)

Preschool graduation is coming up which I'm excited for. The kids have been practicing so hard on their songs and sign language for the program. I hope all goes as planned but that isn't exactly likely with 16 hyper 4 year olds :) I'm really going to miss these kids this year. For some reason I have grown a lot more attached with this class than my classes in the past. They are definitely a handful, but lots of fun. Hopefully some of them will come back for summer camps!
I also got a cute new headband form my sister that I had to post a picture of because I love it so much! .... John likes it too :)