Homecoming

You've seen me camping, you've seen me cooking and baking, you've seen me shopping and traveling, you've even seen me as an old lady. If you dare to look through this post, you will see me as a chicken.

And that is exactly why I started this blog.

Ashley

Dana

Uuuuh... Dana.

Giving Dana a purty masque (I was the first to get one;
 I combined a teacher's two ideas to invent it)

Almost done!

Oooh! Happy! Happy! Happy!

Doing her own masque

Dana painting a friend's face

Pewm! Pewm!

Awwwwwww

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA DANA'S A PIGGY!

SO'S ASHLEY!

AND MRS. B IS A BANANA!!!!!!!

Cute little Piggy Tail

Hahahaha it's so creepy!

*oink!*

Peace.

I'm a CHICKEN!

I screamed "Chicken Barbeque!" and "Chicken Barbeque at the High School!" and "Chicken Barbeque at the High School! $8.50 for a full meal! It's for the music boosters!" and "Straaaaaaiiiiight ahead!" and when one guy who my beak kept me from seeing turned up his music, I yelled "That's mean! Turn it down and go get some chicken!". It's amazing how much braver one gets when she is inside a chicken suit.

Dana and Ashley yelled (no where near as loud as I did) "And pork!!!!!!!!"

Haha.

After school and a sweaty chicken suit...

Senior float for the homecoming parade

My admission ticket

Homecoming game 

The Fox scaring those adorable kids
(horrified fascination)

Cheerleaders

When Ashley has my phone...

GOOOOO REDS!

 During half-time, we left the game (we were winning 7-0) for a movie. The next photo looks like random red lines, but it was supposed to be the awesome theater signs.

"SHOWP" on one side, "LACE 6" on the other.
Combined, they make the whole name.

After a whole day including a pep rally, being a
screaming and flapping chicken, going to a football game, and
going to Dolphin Tale, my paint was a pretty sorry sight. 

Senior Citizen Day

FOR SENIORS ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday was my favorite spirit week day ever! While everyone else had 80's day, we had our own kind of "80" day... :)

Dana

Ashley

Just like any other old lady, Ashley
has to go to her high school classes, too

Sprayin Dana's hair with more white spray. 

Old, old, old, old, old Ashley

Don't you point that cane at me, old lady!

Awwww! So cute!

I'm that mean, eccentric old granny all your friends warn you about...

The Great Ganache Experiment

I just love baking and I love cakes. I love experimenting and trying new things with cakes.
I worked at buttercream, found an acceptable style, and moved on to fondant. I'm not so good at that, but it's doable. My newest quest has been ganache. It's fairly simple, if you don't completely mess it up. Take cream and chocolate chips. Bring the cream to a boil, take it off the heat, and pour it over the chocolate chips. Let it sit for a few, then stir it up. It can be poured like icing when hot, whipped into fluffiness, used as plain ol frosting, or made into candy... Just, whatever you do, do not attempt to do dishes while making it.

Candied Pecans

Beautiful Cake #1

Beautiful Cake #2

Buttercream Frosting

Custard Filling

Chopped pecans for the filling

My lil helper

Pecan custard filling

You have no idea how scared I was to start the frosting process...
turned out pretty good, huh?

I had to frost the top because the ganache turned out super thin

So far so good...

Oops

Beautiful pecans

Did it look better messy, or "on purpose" messy?

Dad with his anniversary necklace 

Mom in her anniversary necklace

Dad with his necklace over his nose...

The last couple of cakes I made inexplicably turned out flat and dense. I blame it on the dumb baking soda and my amazing mental math skills. I am just so thrilled that this one turned out so well. I just got happier and happier as the afternoon went by... mostly.