Sunday, March 29, 2009

Spring!!! Break??

Technically, this week for me is supposed to be Spring Break. However, with all my current partying, I have gotten a little behind... Okay ALOT behind. Although it wouldn't be ALOT behind if I wasn't given such an insane work load. So this week is a relaxing NOT Spring Break for Keltie. I would post my list on here so you could see it, but that's boring.

Last week was pretty good. Wait... I lied... It was bad.

Anytime when you stop eating sugar is bad...Very bad....

I have made it a week though! Hooray for Keltie! With no major cravings I think I might be able to make it until Easter.... I cannot resist the Mini Eggs, I inhale such delectable treats.. mmmm...


... Wow back to Earth...I think I may have just drooled.....

Remember that post I made awhile ago about the couch to 5-K running plan.... Well there is good news and bad news. Good news first ( if you prefer bad new first.... too bad! HA) I make it to the end of week 2. I think. Then I got busy, and have been unable to drag my lazy tired butt out of bed early enough to go. I figured out that If I was to do an hour of Seminary and a hour of Exercise, plus have a shower before scriptures. I need to wake up at 6 am!

Yes.. you read that correctly...6 A FREAKING M! I thought 7:12 was bad. Yes this is the hard sad truth of my life.



So on this so called " Spring Break" guess what time I'm getting up. 6 bloody AM! Yes there is none of that carefree beachy Spring Break for me. Hardcore morning of seminary,exercise, and school. If I get everything done before the sun has ditched for the day.. Believe me, I will be at the beach! In my loverly new BLUE swimsuit. :)


You know how I always post something about my neighbours Phil and Heidi. Well I can't because there not here right now, but their dog is making sure I don't get enough sleep in the morning. Since Phil is not here to let "Lucky" out in the morning at 5 am (YEAH EVEN WORSE THAN 6 AM I KNOW!!!) This dog feels the need to bark.. bark bark bark, until someone lets him out of the trailer. (This is only after he has trashed the joint however) Because no other person in Paamul gets up at 5 am, the dog barks until usually 7 am. Unless My mother or I go let him out. As my mom said," It's a good thing that dog is named Lucky." Yes YES it is, because Im ready to do it in! ( sorry, you would understand if you were me)

ANYWAYS......

Last week Rodolfo started to teach Salsa classes on Wednesday nights at 7. When he told me he needed ideas for how to teach, I showed him good old http://www.youtube.com/ I have created and addict. He is obsessed with 'watching the videos." But that's what happens when you spend your time with the Google Queen. This up coming week, we are teaching salsa turns and some Cumbia dancing. Oh, I forgot... yes "we," "I" being the Assistant teacher... are teaching salsa turns and some cumbia....


We are also planning on going to the beach by Bahia Principe on Monday, its a very fun beach. I will post some pics so you can understand why.

Wow... look at the time.. 9 pm.. and I haven't cleaned my room yet.

The Great Cake Project





I once again am sucking at posting regularly,but that's the same old story.
So whats new??

Well The Great Cake Project was one of the many things I have done recently that has kept me too busy to blog!

What is the Great Cake Project you ask? Well if you haven't already seen the pictures on my mom's blog or Facebook,let me clue you in...


It all started with bakerella.. I was dying to make a cake creation. My mom's birthday was coming up and it was my parents 18th anniversary and they got married at 18. Plus they had a 3 cake pan set in large,medium,and small at Sorrianna. So it all fell into place.


I made two layers top layers cherry pound cake (same as my parents wedding cake)
and the bottom was a chocolate cake with 2 fresh strawberry custard layers. It took me a week to bake because we have a 1 pan oven, and limited electricity for the toaster/convection oven.

So I baked cakes....








And Then I iced cakes....



Then I put fresh flowers on my cake.
Then we all ate the Cake.. and had so much left over we ate it like 3 times a day for a week... Well I did anyways..


P.S My blog wont let me add anymore big pictures, I am going to try and fix it's problem..

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Red Velvet

How many of you have eaten red velvet cake before? Until Saturday I hadn't even seen this mysterious dessert in real life before. With all my time spent on the bakerella blog, and countless other baker blogs. I came across a picture of this intriguing cake.




Mmm I just had to make this, so following the directions on the site, I created my first masterpiece!

Everyone told me it was delicious and the cream cheese icing was to die for. Oh.. what? You wanted to see a picture of the cake? No. Your okay.

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Yeah it didn't look so good. I got impatient and didn't wait for the cake to cool, and then the cream cheese icing was all goopie. Plus I didn't add the amount of red food coloring the recipe called for;I just couldn't bring myself to add 2 oz. red food coloring. So it looked kinda purple. Anyways, apparently it tasted good. (I couldn't eat it after I made it) If I make this kind of cake again, I will not use the same recipe, and I will add the right amount of food coloring.