Thanksgiving is around here some where...

I have been so busy at work. Boy it was a long week and I was ready for a Saturday! Can I just say that I love my job? I love my job. I am working hard and am trying really hard to do my best. I love when something so kicks your butt and you just have to give in to it.

Lately we have been making and baking a lot of Aplet and Cotlets. Yes Still. 800 lbs takes a minute or two.


Or ten.






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A lot of our Fall and Thanksgiving menu is in! One of my favorite additions?

Vegan Banana Cupcakes with cinnamon caramel buttercream.



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Next week I will be working 6 days, trying to prepare for Thanksgiving. And for probably 12 hours or more on Monday. Apparently it is crazy. Tons of pie and extra whole sale orders. Im excited to see how nuts it gets! Bring it.

Also next week , my brother-in-law Dave is moving into our house for a little while. Now I have an excuss to make a huge Thanksgiving. Everyone else is invited as well. Unless we barely know each other, because then that would be akward.



Here is to a good 12 hours of sleep I am going to get tonight.

Aplets and Cotlets

It is finally Saturday. Thank heavens.


Work has been super busy lately! What I thought was busy before has been totally replaced with a new kind of crazy. It is very exciting and the new menu is coming in next week. There will be lots of new changes. Followed by the Open House, the photo shoot, and dum dum dum Thanksgiving.

I will be in Pie Hell.

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Made a million mini tiers this week:




The whole sale list over Halloween was totally crazy and I made a million of these:





Made this cake for the store:



Oh and today?

I scooped 240 lbs of Aplet and Cotlet cookies, using the worlds smalles cookie scoop.
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One of our very dear friends Heather had her baby this last week!




Doesn't he look just like her? What an adorable little man!



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Last Thanksgiving I spent in Southern Utah with my parents and extended family. Thanksgiving was at their house and after driving 18 hours and not sleeping for 2 days....I decided to just make most of it.

It was a blast...

and I spent a ton of time with my nephew...



But this time around I will be at Dessert Tray working my tush off! Too much to do to sneak away for a mini vacation!

Hope everyone has a great weekend. I know I sure will!

Life lately...

Hyrum and I have been just working lately and having a very busy life! We spent some time getting the house ready to have friends stay with us for a few days and have been working tons!

We finally got a second to breath and went and bought enough pumpkin to make pie for a year...



(Okay obviously not all of these are ours!)

and of course I had to get some fall flowers up in the house...



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My best college girlfriend(Cassandra) flew in on Thursday to attend Graduation at WCI.I was able to spend some time with her and my god daughter Olivia! It was so great to be able to run around together like we used to and I cannot believe how big Olivia has gotten! Totally mind boggling...

Isn't she just adorable though?



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Our fun started out by attending WCI's first Alumni mixer at Restaurant Bleu. We saw some friends and chefs that we hadn't seen in a long time. There was wine and hors d'oeuvres. Some were pretty yummy, although the cake was only so-so. Maybe I'm just prejudice.



That was just the beginning of our girls night out on the town! Cass took the pictures because my camera (which I finally remembered to bring) had zero batteries! I will post the rest of the pictures later in the week when I get them from her!

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Today we went to Cass's graduation at the Portland Convention Center...





which happens to be a beautiful building with lots of art instillation's.





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After graduation we went to dinner at Stanfords. I had some pretty good Macaroni and Cheese. It had Gruyere, Cheddar, and Fontina cheese. It was also served with bacon and Panko. Yum.

I love the interior and the art...





and outside of Stanfords, one of my favorite fountains...

(Click to see the details)



As you can tell, we have been very busy lately! Time for a relaxing weekend!

A little bit of cake...

Today went by really fast at work. It was a lot of fun and today was a big whole sale production day. Sweet.

Did a lot of rustic cakes today and also a lot of glazing (mini cakes, rasperry, coconut, fudge, mousse bombs...you get it. I love finally being good at a few things and how much faster things are going. I love learning new things and I love getting better at new things!


The German...






Eat your heart out!

Carrot Cake:






and also a very amazing cake.. the Raspberry...



and no they are not Hershey's Kisses. I piped those myself.

Thats all you get for today!

3 years ago...

3 years ago today was October 13, 2006. It was Friday the 13th then.

This happened:



Followed by:



Which 6 months later was followed by:



And how could we forget about our little (then) addition:



Now here we are...



I could go on forever about how special Hyrum is and how wonderful a person he is. The truth is, if you know him, you already know all of this.

Its not hard to see why I fell in love with this amazing person 5 years ago.