We're Buying What?!

We have exciting news to share!  We're buying a house!  

Beau and I found a lovely town house in Pacifica, CA and we're going through the process of buying our first home!  :)

Below are a few general pictures we took of Pacifica while we were house hunting.

 The Pacific Ocean...

 Mountains... endless hiking trails...

 We don't care if it's known as the "Foggy Capital" we're so so excited to live in such a gorgeous place!

Here are some other pics of San Fran we took while we were being touristy :)

 Lombard Street, the windiest road in the world?

 The Golden Gate Bridge leading to the Napa area...

 Alcatraz

 Coit Tower

 Sea Lions

 Dolphin 65 that Beau will fly

And our wonderful friends Melissa and Ian!

If all goes smoothly, we should be closing on our house mid April (or earlier!)  Fingers crossed!

I couldn't be more excited to live in this area of the country... this will be by far the best station we've had!

The Adventure Begins...!

  Just wanted to update everyone that Beau and I are heading out to San Francisco to do some shopping... house shopping that is!  


  Fingers crossed we find a wonderful home in a safe location out on the Peninsula! And one that doesn't cost 1 million buckaroos, because that seems to be the going rate out there... Oh, and also one that doesn't restrict our mini zoo since condos and townhouses can have silly pet restrictions.  I mean, come on, they're better behaved than children!  (I mean that in a nice way hehe)


   Hopefully I'll have a positive update the end of next week.  Until then, we're off exploring in uncharted territory  :)




xoxo

Piggies, Pandas & Patriotic Pops Oh My!

A childhood friend asked if I'd make some cake pops for her family reunion!  Her older brother got back from his overseas deployment so the whole family was getting together to celebrate his safe return.  Such a sweet family!  

I shipped two dozen pops to North Carolina and they made it!  (I had done a pre-trial with her a week earlier to Colorado.)

One dozen red velvet with cream cheese frosting.

And one dozen double chocolate.

 All boxed up and tied with a pretty ribbon!  

Welcome home Dan!

My first Wedding Cake!

    I had the honor of making a wedding and grooms cake for Jodi and Andrew, an amazing couple who tied the knot this past Saturday!  Andrew was stationed on the USCG cutter Juniper with Beau back in Newport a couple years ago and now he's in flight school too!  And Jodi is a sweetheart from Pensacola.  They are so in love it's adorable  :)


  This wedding was also super special to me because it was my first wedding cake I've ever done!  And it went so smoothly and although I guess I'm biased, it looked so pretty!

three layer white wedding cake filled with strawberry, chocolate, and strawberry filling and covered in marshmallow fondant

full sheet cake made with yellow cake and vanilla buttercream

love sparkly luster dusts

I'm still nowhere near perfect at smoothing buttercream, but this is my best attempt yet

gold aviator wings made out of fondant and brushed with 24karat luster dust

cutting of the cake

Beau said I had to prove I made the cake so we took a pic of me with it!

Us all fancied up.  I loooove the white uniform.  Yum!

Something Swanky Sweet Treats Thursday