Jedi Treats

This year, I wanted to make a Darth Vader cake for Andrew's Star Wars birthday party. Andrew, on the other hand, wanted a Darth Maul cake. Wow! I didn't think I could handle that, so we kept thinking. Finally we agreed on individual mini TIE Fighter cakes.

From Wikipedia: "TIE fighters are fictional starfighters in the Star Wars universe. Propelled by Twin Ion Engines (hence the TIE acronym), TIE fighters are depicted as fast, fragile starfighters produced by Sienar Fleet Systems for the Galactic Empire."

Whew! I feel geekier already!

I made mini bundt cakes and drizzled them in vanilla frosting, then topped each with an Oreo, decorated as the window and piped vanilla frosting stars around the window.
Nana covered graham crackers in chololate and trimmed them to the shape of the wings. The wings were then attached to the ship cockpits with vanilla rolled wafer cookies (Pirouettes).
Look at all the chocolate covered scraps! DARN! Someone's going to have to eat those!
Here's our little fleet of fully edible TIE Fighters. What Jedi wouldn't love to devour one of these?
Nana dipped some pretzels in red and blue chocolate for awesome "lightsabers" for the guests to take home.

Sneak Peak of Andrew's Cakes

May the Force be with me!

Yeah...It's THAT cold!

That's ice on the INSIDE of our window!

School was actually cancelled today. Not because of the snow, but beacuse of the COLD!!! Really.

Hannah's First Steps

Guess who took her first steps today?!


Hannah's First Steps from Summer Anderson on Vimeo.


Untitled from Summer Anderson on Vimeo.

I don't get it!

My mom and I were comparing the Twilight book and movie today, discussing what we liked and didn't like about the movie, when Andrew walked in.

Andrew: "Are you you guys STILL talking about Twilight?! I've seen like a thousand commercials and it doesn't look interesting AT ALL!"

Splish Splash

Don't you like fun?!!

Logan: "Mom? You wanna play with me?"

Summer: "Sure. What should we play?"

Logan: "How 'bout LegoAna Jones (Lego Indiana Jones) on the Wii?"

Summer: "How 'bout something else? I don't really want to play Wii right now."

Logan: "But MOM, it's FUN!
DON'T YOU LIKE FUN?!!"

My Silly Logan

Logan: "Hey Mom, come take a look at DARTH SILLY!"

P.S. YES, those are UNDERWEAR he's wearing! Day THREE of no accidents! Yay Logan!