a Little Sunshine for your day!

So tomorrow is THE BIG DAY! (no not the wedding, but another BIG DAY)
Tomorrow is Move in Day at X. The whole summer the university has been preparing for this day, when the froshies arrive in all their nervous glory to become a part of the Xavieran family. Each and every move in day I've been an active participant. First year obviously I was moving in. I vividly remember feeling overwhelmed, lost, scared, but also excited, accepted and ready for fun! Second year was my first time being on the other side of the fence, as university staff welcoming the newbies. I LOVED moving people in, sympathizing with their struggles and enjoying their excitement. I didn't stop running around ALL day moving kids in, helping carry items, talking to parents about the wonders of this university and that their kid was more than safe with me. Third year I was part of the Senior RA staff, being the Mamas/Papas of our new RAs and our New froshies. It was just as exciting as second year move in day, but funner because we has a brand new building to show off, even though it had recently flooded displacing 11ish residents to lounges. Ah the fun!
Now in my fourth year, i'm neither frosh nor RA. BUT I am going to be a personal tour guide to a very special family, The Triggs!! :) Grace my lovely cousin fell in love with X when she came to visit in april, slaved over Pre-cal summer courses and has finally made it to being 24 hours away from being an official Xavieran :)! At the crack of dawn we are getting in line at the KMC, (where we will see Scotty posing as Mister Apple Man) and then heading to Lane to move her into her temp room! All very exciting, i'm MOST excited to be on the other other side of the fence again, moving someone in :).
Now for the sunshine!
Lets begin with my newest little creature friend, Ginger. This is the kitty than lives in Megans house! In a house full of girls Ginger gets all the love and attention a kitty could hope for!

Next, is the three teddybears I made out of sugarpaste last week from a tutorial on you tube! adorable :) I can't wait to try some more!

Here are the sunshine cupcakes I began this morning :)! I used my new icing tip and it turned out beautifully! here are the naked cupcakes!

Next we have the sunflowers I created :) They were inspired from my aunt Kellys cake she made for James' birthday :) ! It was BEAUTIFUL, so I attempted some sunflowers of my own!

Here is the finished product :) I added some leaves because the green really adds some colour! They are all packed and ready to head off to Bishops hall to "add some sunshine" to a potentially rainy and stressful day as two of my fav ladies move in their froshies!

Adventures of the last few days :)

Over the past few days I've done lots of fun things :)

Last weekend we went home and relaxed, try to blue stephs hair, watched Walle and enjoyed good company!
This week I've been enjoying being busy at work as it a busy busy time of year trying to get every phone prepared for the coming of the residents. This monday will be my last monday working full time, and I can't wait to be done and start classes! Its been a very very long summer, fun but long. I'm looking forward to classes, friends and more frequent trips to the valley. Of course I've been doing baking over the past few days as well, and testing out some new methods with the gum paste!
Here are some highlights from the last few days!

This is the cake that almost didn't survive, because it almost was thrown at the floor lol. (several times) I finished this one at home last weekend with steph and mom!


These are the lovely flowers outside Minimoes! The grounds people at X have done an EXCELLENT job this summer, so I had to take a picture to show everyone!


Pika snoozing on scotty with his tongue sticking out... priceless!


Last night we went out to celebrate our SECOND last friday at work! Prepping for next friday of course! And it just so happens it was fishbowl friday, so we indulged! That is Raspberry Ice tea (with a kick!) It tasted like red freezies Mmmmmm.


These are the cupcakes I tried out! I used my piping tools to ice it... but sadly I didn't ahve a very good tip. So I researched post-production of this cupcakes and found a cheap set of Wilton ones perfect for icing cupcakes! Stay tuned for round two ! Notice my further attemps at icing flowers, so cute :)


This was my adventure today :)


...And this is the mess it made!



a close up :) (I'm very proud that I ended up making two... success! And learning experiences!)


And last but certainly not least, Scotty's bday present from his grandparents! An Xbox and Guitar hero III! The source of much happiness and frustration haha!

Thank You Golda!

My packages arrived from Goldas Kitchen online store yesterday, so I wasted no time trying out my little tools and cutters. I worked on two kinds of flowers, both pretty simple to assemble with some work. I can't wait to try adding them to a cake/cupcakes.


Sad day as we said goobye to Mulrine as she left for her big trip! Talked to her this morning, and she's loving life in london :)!

SundaySundaySunday

Zooooom! And away we went! FINALLY I went Go karting at the Snow Queen amusement park. Lauras first time, and it was a blast! We went around twice on the cars, the first time I got the worlds slowest car, and Laura (not wanting to disobey rules of the road) didn't pass me. Hhaha so we drove like grannies for the first little while. But we got the hang of it in the end !We topped of the whole thing with a flavoured softserve icecream! (one bubblegum and one raspberry!)
Then we went out for supper with Drewbie and Sylvia at BP it was yummmy! Then back to the apartment for Lauras Bday cake! It was delicious and we laughed alot. All in all a great weekend! Thankfully we get to keep Laura for another day, and even get to see Breanne for lunch on Tuesday at Sunshine On Main!

Happy Birthday Mulrine!

Happy 22nd Birthday Miss Laura Mulrine :)
And birthdays of course call for cakes...

but also wild adventures in airports, dartmouth, and a big Swiss Chalet lunch!
We drove down to hfx airport to meet laura (mee buzzing the WHOLE way about getting to see laura SO soon :) ) but when we arrived we saw that it had been delayed... not arriving at 11pm but now at 11:25. Oh well a little delay I can handle. We got coffee, met kim to pass on some cookies for the bake sale, and got comfy to wait. Then we see, not arriving till 11:50, 1:05, and then 1:20. Then my phone starts to ring, and it is Lauras mom. Laura had to get off the plane, the brakes weren't working. Oh my, you'd think they woudl have checked this out BEFORE it was time to leave. So Lauras mom wonderfully tracked down a hotel room for all of us to crash in for the night (because we coudlnt' find anything, Halifax was THE place to be!) hee hee but some people couldn't wait to crash...


So we finally got to see Laura, grabbed her "cases", and headed to Dartmouth. I was ready to wow laura with my great direction skills, as I had studied this for a good 2 hours but we STILL managed to get lost. The iPhones GPS saved the day and we rerouted to the hotel. We crashed, slept in and stopped in Truro for a great meal at Swiss Chalet!

Twittering

Hello all :)
I just wanted to explain my use of twitter to yoU!
I use it as a miniblogger, so I can update on the go! I have an application on my iphone that allows me to update as often as I want from whereever I am! Therefore I can upload pictures of work, vacations, travel, pets etc! So, just click on the link *folow me on Twitter* and you can seee my updates/pictures!

Adventures In Baking!

I tried a NEW cookie last night, fondant topped sugar cookies :)! I brought them into work today and they were a big hit! THey are unique looking and very adorable on a plate. AND they taste YUMMY! I only wish I had yellow food colouring it would hvae been cute to see yellow flower centers. Adventure for another day! I'm going to surf ebay for inexpensive cookie cutters, they are such a useful tool!! Antigonish doesn't have much of a market for them! I'm so lucky to have been able to borrow this wonderful flower cookie set from my aunt Gail!

Updated again: Happy Birthday Scotty!

The Big 2-1! This morning there was a small surprise party in the living room, pajama clad Scotty stumbled into the living room to see it transformed! Balloons candy and present. THe guinea pigs had made a little "Happy birthday Daddy" sign, and had a giftbag in their cage ready for him to open. They got him a gift card to the iTunes store, so he can buy games for his iPhone. (imagine them surfing the web at 3 months old...hehe) There was a bundle of chocolate bars and reaces peanut butter cups! And the oddly wrapped gift on the coffeetable turned out the be the first 5 books in the star wars series!
The fun doesn't end there tho! We are leaving an hour early from work today to head to the cottage in NB for a fun filled weekend of cottagey things! And we get to become godparents to lovely little baby Aurora! And on Monday we are going to go meet Bella, Caleighs new puppy. It'll be a fun!

I will be certain to blog after it all goes down!
crappier picture from the top (iPhone quality not so great in dim light)












A little update, a happy birthday friday at the TSG... it is so quiet because it is the friday before the long weekend. So Scotty has dug into his new books :)



Another Little Update:
Look at the adorable cake the girls at work got scotty!