Mega post...

I keep thinking about posting a update but I just never do but I have a couple of hours before my training session so here we go. By the end of 2009 I had finally achieved graduation but along with graduation I had achieved a goal. After moving to Salt Lake I hit a downhill in my life and ended up gaining 40 pounds in the first year. I'm sure school did not help with everything around me. For my birthday I asked for a bodybugg and personal training sessions. Long story short I was able to continue my training sessions with my personal trainer Josh. Life has become a little less stressful but happier. I have lost the 40 pounds but I have lost 6 inches off my chest, waist, and hips (I don't know my past month measurements so this could have changed). At one point I was juggeling work, school and the gym. Now it is so nice to only be juggeling work and the gym and Josh has made the gym a lot easier by making me do my cardio after my sessions three times a week. I have learned how to make pancakes healthy... I know everyone tells me if you make them healthy they won't taste good well I am here to tell you picky me is eating pancakes that are healthy for you... which leads to what I think I want to do. I want to create good tasty food that people who are looking for a more healthy meal plan can eat. Desserts that will curve the sugar cravings but at the same time taste good. Anyways in a nut shell I still want to do cakes but I'm also switching it up. So there is a update in a nutshell...

DONE!!!

I know it's been a long time since I've posted anything but I thought tonight would be appropriate to post something... I GRADUATED today. I'm so happy to be done and to be able to move on and maybe get some rest. I will have to post pictures next week when I get the pictures from my moms camera.

Busy, Busy, Busy...

Well I am finally done with my internship and have started my last quarter of school. I have two classes that will be challenging. The first on is running the restaurant in the school. As students we are in charge of cooking and serving the meals. We pretty much run it with the help of one of the chefs. My other class is a Capstone class. We make a business plan and present it in the end. It is going to be a lot of work and I really don't know how I am going to have time between work and the gym. I guess I won't have a life for another 11 weeks. Here are some pictures of things I did my last week.

And I also made this one...

This is a white chocolate curl cake. Every curl is made by had out of a mixture of white chocolate and a small amount of gum paste. I was pretty proud of this one. I had help from on of the other girls at Carries but the other day I made curls from milk chocolate for another cake and it took 5 hours straight by myself... very time consuming.

I made this...

So this is the cake I made on Saturday. I did everything except put the fondant on the cake. I even painted the little branches. Carrie and Brooke(Carries Daughter in law) loved it!! Carrie told me to just follow a picture and do what I wanted to do. And this is what turned out. I loved it and it became a favorite for everyone.

I forgot...

I am moving out on my own. I have decided that I am tired of the roomate situations I am always put in and decided I want a place of my own. Between work, school and the gym I am never home. I am excited to move on with my life.

Updates...

Wow I have really slacked in the past six weeks. Here are some things I have been up to. I have been in my internship for 5 weeks now (halfway done). We have been pretty busy the past few weekends with wedding season. The past two weeks each week we have been putting out 16 cakes. It's crazy busy but I'm learning so much and have already learned more than I have in school.

I stacked this cake and put the dowels in it which isn't that easy to make sure the space is the same height and make sure it's level.

This is just the bottom of a five tier cake. All the dark pink is done in royal icing but was stenciled on. Yes stenciled on sounds easy... It's not!!!! Five tiers, 2 hours, and 3-4 people helping later it was finished.