Such a Busy Week!!

Our sweet little friend, Miss Ellie O., is turning 1 this month! Her birthday party is this Sunday afternoon and we're making her cupcakes! We also MAY have the opportunity to make our first baby shower cake! We have wanted to try a baby shower or child's birthday cake for awhile, so you can imagine our delight when we got two opportunities on the same weekend!

Unfortunately, I'm going to miss it.

(Of course I'm really not complaining at all because Lee and I are heading to the beach with Ben and Bethany for a few days, and we've been looking forward to it ALL summer!!!)

We are spending all of our evenings this week getting ready for the weekend since Mallory will be going solo on the actual cake assembly! There's so much to do to get everything ready... choosing a final design, purchasing all the ingredients, making the fondant and buttercream, tinting the icing and creating the templates for the shapes of the cakes... Getting two cakes done with half the team will be no small feat!!!

-Laura

Baby Hopkins has a BLOG!

I'm super excited that my friend Cassandra has joined the blogging world... and not too long after I did!

Over the past year, she has become one of my very good friends and is one of the very best things about my job! She and her husband are expecting their first baby on Christmas Eve! If you only knew of her obsession with this holiday, you'd understand how fitting this is!! (I'm talking Christmas shopping as a year-round hobby... Christmas music in May... Christmas decorations up before Halloween... and everything red and green...) As of yesterday afternoon, the baby blog was launched so that we can keep up with everything to do with Baby Hopkins.

She will find out a week from today if her little pea-in-the-pod is a boy or a girl, so check back in to see what kind of fun ideas we cook up for her baby shower cake!! Mallory and I have never done a baby-themed cake, so we are really excited! Be sure to comment if you have any cute ideas we can borrow!

-Laura