Update

Not much of an update over on my end here. Right now I feel really tired. I had to get blood tests done today which made me tired (along with 4 late nights and early mornings the last few days) as well as playing badminton tonight. Normally on Monday nights we play volleyball but they decided tonight would be badminton. I love the sport but I didnt realize how much it takes out of you.

On Wednesday we have a Drime Christmas party and as a team we are supposed to bake something for the bakeofff. So being my competitive self I was geared up to go. I had visions of a tall 3D Christmas Tree decked out with all of the trimmings. So I called Cheryl on Saturday night and she shot down my idea saying it was done the year before. Plan B. I thought it would be sweet to make a fireplace with bricks, a mantle, fire... the goodstuff. So I baked a cake and well... It literally crumbled in our hands. Plan C?? A snowman.

Now... we had gone through 2 cakes on Saturday night so we thought we should stop and wait it out until Sunday afternoon. So, on Sunday afternoon it began. We figured out how to bake round cakes so we made 9 of them, "glueing" each layer together with melted marshmallows. ( It works really well!!) We then carved it to make it look more like a snowman and added lots and lots of white icing to it. We then made a tophat coloured green and added all the fixings. We put it up a big board, added a tealight and some candies looking like logs to make a campfire. Tonight I made some trees to add to the scene.

All I can say is that we better win. It tastes good, it looks good, and it took about 12 cakes to get there!!!! Pictures and results to come!!!