Which girl is which?

So one of these I took when Brooklyn was 16months old, the other was taken when Lexi was about 15 months old. I never thought they looked alike before, but now I see the similarities! Fun!

Gymnastics!

Brooklyn LOVE LOVES LOVES Gymnastics!! She's always been very athletic - she doesn't walk to where she wants to go - she jumps and hops. I've wanted this for her for a long time and now we've been blessed to have the opportunity!
Here's some pictures of the girls!

1st Trip to the Dentist

Wow - blogging has really gone back-burner. At least let me post these really OLDpictures about Brooklyn's first dentist experience. It was so cute! She was really excited and very mature. Normally they don't do X-rays or flouride on 1st timers b/c they are too scared or fidgety. Not Brooklyn! She got mad that they mentioned holding off and so her very sweet hygienist Brandy went ahead and did the whole Sha-Bang. With all of the candy, juice, and general lack of brushing I was sure Brooklyn would have at least one cavity. I think I even convinced her she had one before we went - bad mom! She has...NO cavities! I think I was more relieved than she was. She had such a good time she wanted to come back the next day.


P.S. Brooklyn ALWAYS picks out her own outfits - I thought this one was...well, creative since she pulled the yellow from Sleeping Beauty's hair to match the skirt and wore her pink jellies to match the stripes in the shirt. She needs to give me some tips!

Nashville

If you're Mormon - especially a Utah Mormon, you've got to read this blog!

Cami introduced me to this hilarious blog. Check it out:
www.seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com

You have to read the explanation on the bottom left of the site where it says "Are you new to my blog? Click here for a bit o background." It's just above her playlist. TAMN rocks!

Cake!

Cami and I were asked to make the cake for Katie and Annie's baby shower. Originally I planned to do Katie's "boy" cake while Cami was going to make Annie's "girl" cake. Instead we collaborated and worked many long hours together making this topsy turvy fondant boy and girl cake.
Details: We learned just about everything we know from watching silly You Tube tutorials. It may have been more helpful to take a real cake decorating class. Anyway, Cami baked 6 layers of both chocolate and yellow cake. Plus, she made chocolate buttercream frosting and assembled the cakes, creating the "topsy-turvy" effect. I made and colored all of the fondant, rolled it out, cut out some of the designs, and made the little balls. Top layer - chocolate cake inside with baby pink fondant on the outside. Middle layer - also chocolate cake, but with white fondant. Bottom layer - yellow cake for Katie and baby blue fondant. We brushed the cake with gold sparkle powder to match the gold sparkle booties Cami made the day before.
Oops: The buttercream was delish, but wouldn't stick to the cake without pulling it apart. Weird!! It took us forever to do the "crumb coat" that goes on before the fondant. When I put the fondant on the middle cake, it ripped, so I had to rip it off and start completely over again with new fondant. Arghh!!!! Also, the fondant wrinkled at the bottom of the layers so we had to make the balls really big to cover. There were other little things that went wrong - like we planned to have a fondant bow around the center of the cake but had way too many problems withe the bow. Luckily it turned out well enough that we got a few compliments. I feel like Cami did most of the hard labor, but she kept giving me lots of credit tonight. It was fun to do!

American Adventures

(This is a lame pic I stole from google images since I never took a picture of the entrance or sign. I have NO idea who these people? are.)
It takes me forever to post things - LAST Friday Kelly and I decided to take the girls to American Adventures! I haven't been there since I worked there as a freshman in highschool (for 3 days, then I QUIT it was so horrible). Well, let me tell all you native GA's who grew up with AA and Whitewater - it hasn't changed! Maybe it was better for us because they didn't charge very much, parking was free, and parents were free! Brooklyn and Elle LOVED the park. They were just the right age for the rides.