FONDANT CAKES



Katie made her sister's B.D cake. This was her first time using fondant. The fondant comes packaged in a block that she then rolled it out.  With an edible spray paint she painted it pink, then she cut zebra strips out of edible paper. Megan LOVED it. So did we. 




This was her second try, and her hardest yet. She had to cook  5 different cakes, only 4 were used. One of those cakes only made it to the garbage can. The cake was made for her friend who is also going into the Navy in Aug. She will become a fire fighter for them. So on the top of this cake will be a red fire truck.  Katie braided some of the fondant to make a rope, then cut out of the edible blue paper for her anchor.

 My sweet girl only has 9 days left before she goes off to boot camp! We are on the count down.

FLYING WITH MY DAUGHTER

This is my daughter with the  Cessna 172 airplane we flew in.



I love it here where we live. We can see Mt. Rainer  everyday that we don't have clouds. (Which is not very much.)



We flew over the Space Needle. As you can tell we were only a few hundred feet from it.

This is a view from the Tacoma Port area, looking toward Seattle, WA. This was only about 1300 hundred feet up.

 Seattle, WA

We only have a couple of weeks left, before my daughter is off into the big ole world. I wanted to take her flying and show her the view from a small plane to see the area. We have flown alot in the big airliners, but small planes can get closer and go slower to really see things. So I took my girl out for  a "joy ride". At first she was a little nervous, but said after the takeoff  she actually enjoyed it. I've always considered myself a good pilot, so that makes me happy.