Ok smarty, go to a party......

I am a super motard and don't know how to change my google account junk. Anyone know how? I changed my email address and want to use the new one and not the old one.... can I do this? I am so not computer savy.

Two weekends ago I got to hang out with some sweet sistas from another mista. (yep, I coined that phrase, so if you use it, I must get credit) I'm talking about the Hansen gals (and ma and pops, and Reesey poo). AKA: the 3 of 5 people who actually read my blog! I seriously love you ladies (ha, I called you ladies!) and your family. It's not often you find another large family full of mostly females who talk about poo more than my family. It's kismet really. It was so much fun and I hope to do it again every time Nat comes to town! AND if you want, you all can even come to our (new) house! (that is, IF we ever get one) We were about to look at the one right around the corner from Angie, but it went under contract. I guess it twasn't meant to be.

On that note; houses. Houses. Houses. People are seriously disgusting. seriously, fer sure. We've looked at houses galore. A littler older, newer, big, bigger, big yards, small yards, clean, dirty, pets (gag), smokers (double gag with a side of barf!) We've looked at about 20 now and oddly enough, we ended up putting an offer down on the very first house we looked at. Now we are just waiting to hear back from the agent/bank. We're going the short sale route again. There are too good of deals to pass up and lucky for us, we have a place to stay while we wait it out. We also put an offer on a house we just looked at last thursday. Here's the rundown of both houses: House 1: 2006 rambler, loft above garage, 4 beds, 4 baths, 4!! car garage, fully fenced, gorgeous kitchen with granite countertops and knotty alder cabinets, front yard landscaped with really nice terracings, patio in backyard. BAD: back yard not very big, not landscaped and hilly, basement not fully finished (just a bed and bath), more money than house 2. hmmmm....... okay, House 2: 1999 2 story, 4 beds, 3 baths, 3 car garage, BIG yard with patio, swing set, fruit trees, other trees, veggie garden, dog run, did I mention, trees? cute front porch, finished basement, less moolah than house 1. BAD: it's basically our first house on steroids. Not that that's bad, that's just what it is. Kitchen floor is ugly checkered wood of some sort, back door comes from family room not kitchen (this bugs me, WHY does anyone do this? it should always come from the kitchen!) We will have to replace and/or add 3 missing doors (people are weird), kitchen sink is white-okay now i'm just getting picky! Basement is done, but they didn't put a bathroom down there, they put some weird cantina room? Really, i think it was supposed to be a little bar room or something.

Honestly, both houses are great for different reasons and I know we'd be happy either place. Really, it comes down to if we actually GET one!

What are your opinions? what would you choose? Both houses are almost the exact same size.

I do more than just cakes!

I also sleep, eat, and occasionally use the john. I was in the typical stay-at-home-mom funk for January, but february was a bit brighter. I just wasn't in blogging mode. I felt like I didn't really have anything to say. Or, if I did, i was just too dang lazy to log in. Yep, that's how lazy I was. Couldn't even be bothered to log in. lay to the z.

Things are turning around like cray to the z. We got an offer on our house. We countered. They countered. We accepted. We are officially under contract today. It is a CASH offer. Psssht. Can you imagine having that in cash? yeah, i wish. But their cash benefits US a LOT! No closing costs! awwwwwe.... some! They are closing on their home in Oregon April 15th and want to close on our house the 20th. Six weeks from tomorrow. That's so soon, yet, i'll take it. We had to pack our whole house (and by "we" I really mean a lot of April and my mom)in 4 days. Seriously, 4 days. It was crazy, so 6 weeks ain't sounding so bad! I'm crossing my fingers and toes everything goes as planned. We are going out to look at houses on friday. The next big decision will be: older house with mature yard, but will have to change things on the inside, or newer house and will have to wait 15 years for the yard? hmmm. not sure yet.

I still don't think it's all sunk in yet. It will be bittersweet for sure.

Tangled Cake

Tangled cake for my Snow college roommie Alisa. Well her little girl, Maile, obviously! The braid measured almost 4 feet long and I had to tranfer it without breakage! aaah. that was hard, and a little secret: it DID break! I fixed it though. I love the tower and I found a totally awesome brick mold that I hope to be using more! I tried to do the Tangled font as best I could with a trusty butter knife and a little guessing since there is no such thing as a real Tangled font. I also came across a new buttercream recipe that is sooo good! The wilton one is just too Crisco-ish and this one has real butter. So yeah, super low fat. I also did a cream cheese filling that is divine! Though, Alisa was a nerd and didn't want to cut the cake, so they just ate the extra one they bought (since there was like 50 people there! did I mention she's married to a polynesian and ALL the family comes?!) I finally met her husband and man, he's handsome. Plus he's got dimples, i'm a sucker for a guy with dark skin and dimples! He's an NFL player, but Sean is taller than him, so he was quite proud of himself. AND, he really wanted to wear a Utes shirt since Fahu went to BYU and all their family are BYU fans. When he told him, he said "Good thing you didn't!" ha. Their other kids are Lincoln, who is 3 and Jaden, who is 5 months. They are all so adorable. It was fun and stressful for me because this is the first cake i've made for someone that was paying me! ah. However, the wedding cake was much, MUCH more scary. I almost cried at one point. Seriously ladies. Now that I know how to do it all I think Phoebe will be getting a Rapunzel cake as well for her birthday.