The RJ Lily Chronicles: CAKES!!! YUM!

Oops! Missed yesterday! Riley had a swim meet and it was a super long day! Meets are always 4-6 hours long and this one was about 2 hours away, so we were gone about 8 hours yesterday! We were all tired when we got home and by the time I remembered the kids were asleep and I was ready to go to sleep too!

The swim meet was pretty good! It was against Norwich and Riley did the 25 Freestyle, 25 Butterfly and the 25 Backstroke. In the 25 Freestyle he got a ribbon for winning his heat! That's really good for him! He took off about 5 seconds I think (we'll find out this week when they post official times). The 25 Butterfly could have been good, but I think he got DQ'd. When he jumped in he started a freestyle stroke and then realized his mistake and did the fly. He would have taken at least a second of his time if he hadn't done that! His backstroke was good! He came in last in his heat, but still took a second or 2 off his fastest time. It was fun! We got to talk with other families with kids around the same age and Riley got to play with his friend Dominick, and Lily got to play with Dominick's sister, Hailey. They had fun and it was nice talking to other team parents! Then we splurged and took the kids to Friendly's for having such a good day!

Well, today's post is going to be about cake! Who doesn't love cake?! One of my best friends, Amanda, asked me to make her cake for her baby shower! I'm honored, but nervous! I've made cakes, that relative to the cakes most people make around here, are great, but still crappy compared to professional. She is having a Hungry Little Caterpillar them. So I was thinking something like this:

This one is amazing, but it's unlikely I'll be able to do it LOL!

Oh, found this, looks like a really easy way to make the shape! Going to post here to remember it!

I'm sure it's going to have a ton of guests, so I don't think this will be enough cake. I'm undecided if I want to make the caterpillar on a large sheet cake or if I want to make extra cupcakes decorated with things from the book.

Here are some of the cakes I've made! I made Riley's first birthday cake and somehow someone hopefully has a picture of it, because I don't!

It was supposed to look like this, and it *sort of* did LOL, but not quite.

Riley's 2nd birthday was a Jojo's circus theme! It was a cute Circus Tent cake, but the icing was melting, so it looked kind of crappy LOL!

Riley's 3rd birthday was when I was about 8 months pregnant with Lily, and did not want to go all out. So I tried simple. It was simple and cute! He loved Thomas, so I went with Thomas.

His 4th birthday was a small party that we traveled for, so I just made a few cupcakes with green frosting and Thomas Trains on them. Unfortunately Riley is now at the age where he wants lame characters and I don't have the time to really put into making the cakes cool, so I've bought cakes for his 5th, 6th and 7th birthday. This year I think I'm making it, because we're doing an awesome spy theme!

Lily's first birthday "cake". It was princess party. It was a small "smash" cake for her and then cupcakes frosted all the way around and then decorated with flowers and ribbon. Then topped with a tiara.

This was the top:

Lily's 2nd birthday was a princess tea party. The cakes were super cute cooked in individual coffee mugs, but of course I can't find the pictures. They were similar to these:

http://cleverbirdbanter.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/teacup-cupcakes/

Lily's 3rd birthday was a princess party (again LOL). Ignore the cords and fan behind it. I was rushing to get a picture before they cut it.

Lily's 4th was a mermaid party. I LOVE this cake! It's not wonderful, but I am proud of it!

I've also ventured into other cakes when people asked me to. I made my 2 of my cousin's baby shower cakes for them. Both were the same, like this. This was actually my very first special cake I made.