Ester's Birthday and Other Events

Ok, my blog has been super lame lately.  When I got married I had this picture in my mind of being a cute little married couple who does cute little married couple things and always has a camera on hand to capture each moment.  Well, as you've noticed the last time I took a picture of myself was when we went to Vegas in March.  But...I did take some pictures of what I've been doing the last two days.  (Pardon the amateur pictures, they are from my iPhone)

Tuesday I made 150 cupcakes and 18 cups of frosting for my mom's preschool graduation.

Though I made them from mixes, it still took a while.  Yesterday I frosted them for the two classes graduating that day.

Yesterday was also Ester's birthday so I made her a cake.  It turned into a slight fiasco because when I took the two cakes out of the oven they had hardly risen AT ALL.  So, my mom suggested making my great grandma's wedding cake recipe (since we were out of mixes).  Here is a copy of the directions...

Sift dry ingredients (less sugar) 4 times.  Mix sugar with milk; add flour.  Fold in whites.  Bake in very slow oven in ungreased tin sprinkled with flour.

That's it.  Well...I consider myself a pretty good cook, but I am NOT good with recipes like this.  First of all, I read "Sift dry ingredients" before I read "(less sugar) so, I sifted the sugar in with the flour.  Now the "Fold in whites" sounds simple enough.  Except that, as my mom told me later, the whites needed to be beaten.  Nowhere on the recipe does it say that, but I guess Grandma Glenna thought it was common knowledge.  "Bake in very slow oven".  What is a very slow oven?  I guessed.  Guessed wrong.  How long?  Doesn't say.  This just goes to show that I am not as experienced in baking as my great grandma.  Anyway, the cake turned into some sort of souflee that burned on the outside and was like whipped yogurt on the inside (Ever had one of those?  Gross)   So, I opted to keep my two Funfetti layers and make it a short cake.  This is how it turned out.

It was a fun day.  Ester, Scott, John and I went to dinner at Calloways and then returned to my mom's where all of us (Mom, Ben, Scott, Ester, Liv and John) played Words With Friends for 2 hours.  I love my family!