The 2009 Cake Off

Best Tasting (Beth)

Wyatt likes cake too!!!

I know that many of you have been in suspense of the 2009 SSPH Spring Cake Off and the results (and photos) are in. For those of you who do not know Drew's family I will give some insight as to the great idea of the cake off.
Drew, Leah, Laura are cake fanatics.(sometimes Adam) They love cake. Most gatherings with these three usually end up with a cake being baked and seeing how much time Laura can wait before she has to frost it. Funny story-- For Christmas one year, Leah and Laura bought Drew 10 cake mixes and wrapped them indiviually and gave them to him as a gift.
One day Laura,Drew and I decided to see who could make the best cake. We decided to hold this competition on Easter and let the family decide who had the best cake. The night before Easter,Ann (Drew's mom) called wanting to know the criteria for the cake off and if she could enter. (Anyone that knows Ann, knows how competitive she is and has to enter no matter what) We said bring it on and it became a family event. Ann then called Beth (Drew's aunt)and told her that she had to bake a cake. Laura decided to call Pete,Karen,Zach and Tina to participate and of course they also accepted. And a call to Spearfish to Paul,Mimi,Kaija and Audrey (Drew's uncle,aunt and cousins) counted in another cake. Now remember this is the night before Easter, the cake off is on Easter, giving these contestants only a few hours to come up with a masterpiece worthy enough to win the cake off.

The contestants

The pictures will explain the rest of the story although it should be mentioned the Beth did win "best tasting" with her chocolate cake with strawberries, Tina won "best looking" and "looks better than it tastes", Laura won "tastes better than it looks", Kaija won "most creative". I think we had more cake at Easter this year than some people have at a wedding,but it was alot of fun to see what everyone came up with.

Tastes better tha it looks-Laura's cake

Drew and Ronda's cake

Ann's cake

Most creative-Kaija

Best tasteng--Beth's cake

Best looking,Looks better than it tastes-Tina

The SSPH stands for the Simmons,Swisher,Palmer,Henrichsen Cake Off and because it was so successful the family has now decided to hold the 2009 SSPH Summer Pie Off this July. Stay tuned for details of the next family competition. Here are the pics of the Cake Off (we missed you Leah!!!) Enjoy the pics.................

The vote counters

The Kitchen...

So we let the boys have their Easter present early since we wont be home on Sunday so that they could play with it. The Easter Bunny got them a little kitchen and I think that Wyatt is in heaven. As you will see by the photos he loves playing with it. Besides the fact that Ratatouille is his favorite movie it makes total sense.

I am going to post some videos in this post and maybe the next few posts of the boys being boys. They are quite comical.

The next post should be a good one too, as it will be primarily about the 1st annual SSPH Spring Cake Off. I will explain entire thing in the next post. It will keep you guessing........

I am also on the look out for a new design for our blog. Hopefully it will be changing to something new soon. Im pretty picky and I cant find anything that I like yet.

Hope that everyone has a happy Easter and Enjoy the pics/video...

More and More Snow

March 30-31st snow storm

Um....... Should I start with the snow? Im sure all of you already know about it so I wont go into detail about it, but I will post pictures of what fun it has been around here. I think we are ready for it to go away now so that we can play outside and burn off some energy.

April 4th snow storm

Since the last post.. our dog Stitch was attacked by our neighbors two big dogs and suffered some injuries to his rear end. Our neighbor lady came over and told me about the attack which required a trip to the vet. He didnt get stitches for his owie, but he did have a gash about an inch and a half wide and about an inch or so deep above his tail and another wound in his hip which looked like it was caused by a tooth. He didnt seem to be in much pain which was good, but we have been playing doctor to him for a little over a week now.

(I know all you wanted to see was Stitch's butt, but Will was very worried about him)

Will and Wyatt have decided that the Incredibles is the best movie ever and we have to watch it every night at least once. Will especially loves the movie so much that he has started repeating the lines of the movie while he is watching it. The other night he started running out of the bedroom and would stop and do a forward punch and then punch his arm in the air while screaming "Incredibles" (while wearing his underwear only). It was so funny to watch. You will see the pictures on this post.

Will is also getting very big, brushing his teeth by himself now, washing his hands, saying his prayers at night etc. He thinks that he is a very big boy now. He is also starting to boycott baths and wants to take showers now. That must be a three year old thing. When Stitch got hurt Will was pretty upset, he would make sure that he knew where Stitch was at all times. In the mornings he would come out in the living roon and holler for Stitch and then holler that he loves him. HE was very concerned, he would tell everyone about "Stitch ahs an owie" or "Stitch is broken" it was pretty cute. He is getting excited for Easter and is throwing all the plastic eggs around the house. Not too sure if real eggs are a good idea this year, hmm.................

Wyatt is learning lots of stuff from his brother, (we aren't sure if this is a good thing yet or not)and is growing up so fast. He has been really clingly lately but I have to admit that he is quite a cuddler. He is still eating all the time and is on a banana kick. He is even trying to to say banana, which sounds like "bite" and "bath". He is pretty funny these days though, he likes to antoginize his brother which im sure he will only perfect in the upcoming years. He is trying to talk more but is only making sounds. He is into everything and if something doesn't go his way he throws a pretty good fit. He likes to fling himself on the floor and bonk his head and then bawl as loud as he can until someone picks him up. I have been trying to ignore him and he usually quits but every now then he thinks he has to milk it.

We got the kids a kitchen for an Easter present since Wyatt likes to get into our kitchen all the time. We are going to give it to them before Sunday so I will have pictures of that soon too. Hope all is well with everyone Enjoy the pics................................