Cake Adventures

Cake Adventures

This week we were a part of a red velvet cake competition with some friends in Utah. (We love you Jason and Emily!) We were buying our ingredients at the store and decided we weren't willing to get a 1/4 cup of food coloring; that was just too disgusting. So we made the excuse that since originally they used beet juice or no coloring at all to make the cake red, we just wouldn't color the cake at all. I decided it might be fun instead to make a red and velvet cake. We made a layer cake with our velvet (no food coloring) cake on the outsides and a layer of strawberry jello in the middle. I put the jello in a 9" circle pan (the same size as our cake) covered the pan in wax paper and then poured an 1/8th of an inch in the pan. Daniel wasn't so sure that this would taste good or work at all, but since he is a good sport, he tried it with me anyway. (Don't worry, he decided that it was totally worth it once we'd eaten it.) He was happy that we put on some cream cheese frosting either way!

The second part of our cake adventure was to give away our cake! It was a contest with our friends so we also made cupcakes which we gave away. (They didn't have any jello). We thought it was a good excuse to give some people in our ward treats!

Mortagage book

This week we also went to the library. I ended up getting a book about mortgages call Mind Your Own Mortgage. It was a pretty interesting read for a non-fiction book. It talks about America's view on mortgages and how that needs to change or risk another housing crash. Then it gives tips on how to shop for a mortgage, and then a whole section on ways to pay off your mortgage (and why you should want to pay it off early). Anyway, it was pretty good, for a book about real stuff that is.

Design and planning

Daniel is busy designing and planning at work. He says that it is okay, but he doesn't really get to building anything for a while until all the planning and designing is done. He seems pretty excited about the project he is working on though, even if it is just planning. He could be doing much more boring things!

Church Stuff

This Sunday we are teaching our 12/13 year old Sunday School class about how being prepared and righteous brings us peace. It is a pretty cool lesson, and a really good idea. I hope our class decides they want to learn about it too!

We are also teaching a fifth of our ward the fifth Sunday discussion. We are going to talk all about our ward service day that is coming up soon. Hopefully our fifth of the ward wants to do service (maybe before our lesson, but definitely afterward!)

That is our week this week!

We love you guys!