My First wedding Cake!!!

My Aunt Jill asked if I could do a wedding cake for her friend. She wanted 2 tiers lime green, with green and white flowers, and black ribbon. So this is what I came up with. (with many calls to Melinda)

This is a white cake with an orange butter cream filling.

I bought fondant thinking it would be easier but it was a deserter.

The fondant must had been old because it kept cracking and falling of the cake so I 

gave up and made my own fondant so I flavored it Orange and I have to say it was so much better tasting. texture still is off but flavor was nice.

Thanks Aunt Jill for this opportunity!

Thanks to Cristina for letting me borrow her

Kitchen Aid and Cake Pan.   

Portfolio Show

So just before we graduate they have all of the graduating students be in a portfolio show. This was a stressful week having finals prepare for a portfolio show and work being busy....I may have had a meltdown. :)

A big thanks to Cindy for the use of her kitchen, Adele for her props, Ashton for helping decorate cookies, and mom helping me through my meltdown.

Back to School I go....hi ho, hi ho, hi ho.

I decided I wanted to go back to school and further my education in the Culinary world but focus on Baking and Pastry.  After praying and wanting to keep my same doctor I decided to move to Salt Lake City and attend the.....
 
My Favorite Instructor is Chef Nicole even if she is the only one who ruined my straight A's all year but she is the one who invested the most time into helping me.

Some of my favorite things I made....

 I Could have added so many more but I did not want to go for the longest post in the world.

Life after the Mission.....

So of course it was back to the Doctor for me where he prescribed me a very very expensive shot but he knew I had no insurance and no job so he said that there is a program he will fill out paper work for to get it for me for free because he said to be blunt you will die without it. I am so happy I have the best doctor in the world because this shot has let me live with a lot less pain to no pain.

Humbling moment

I got back out on the mission and it was a struggle to get back into mission mode but I eventually did. I really had a great time serving the people in Texas. I met so many wonderful people and I now have a place in my hart for Texas.

So I wanted to share with you the experience I had on the decision to come home cause to me it was a very spiritual moment, very hard, but spiritual. I was starting to have headaches again, they started out not so bad but continued to get worse. I tried to do different things to relive the pain, I talked to president about them and I told him I am not giving up yet and he gave me a funny look and said fine sister Jones but you have to promise me that if they get worse you will call me? OK I will pres. A few days latter BAM! they hit hard. Made me dizzy and nauseous. I thought O crap! now I have to call president and I feared he would send me home. I discussed this with my dear companion Sister Sorensen and she told me I needed to pray about it, yes people I needed some coxing, I also had to make a decision before taking it to the Lord and that is hard. So I went and knelt by my bad and prayed. I told him what was going on and I paused, took a deep breath, and told him I had made the decision to go home and get the help I needed. I begin to to sob and continued to pour out my feelings on how I felt like a failure because I would not be completing the full 18 months etc. Just then I had a warm feeling come over me and a voice in my head telling me that "everything will be OK". I also fasted and prayed about this the next day to and I just continued to feel more at peace with my decision. So I knew what I needed to do next was call president and tell him. When I finely got the nerve to do so he said sister Jones this is your decision then? I said yes. He said"If it helps at all I prayed about it to and I got the same answer I just needed you to know it for yourself". Very smart man!

After some thought I asked president if he wouldn't mind me staying one more week and go home with the sisters I came out with and he thought that would be great if I thought I could keep going that long and I said I could. It was so comforting to get the chance to come home with those sisters and have a proper booting out of the mission.

I will never regret serving my mission and I know the lord knows I did all I could. Thank you all for your prayers, love, and support.