Great News!

Eric answered the phone at Bakery and it was Fox 31 wanting to come and do some video in the bakery then have Eric come to a gluten free cooking demo. They plan on airing it the second week of January! When we find out more we will let you know!

Aiden's Reaction to Christmas

Santa brought Aiden a Buzz Light-year action figure and Lily a pink little people bus. We thought Aiden would have gone crazy for Buzz but he ended up playing with Lily's present. Enjoy!

Mermaids Bakery

Eric has been doing his co-op (internship) at Mermaids Bakery for the past month and there are some good things coming out of it! He has been teaching the owner about gluten-free baking and he changed her original recipes into gluten-free ones! The own has been interesting in gluten-free for awhile now because so many people have came into her bakery asking if they did it and now she just launched her new website!

mermaidsbakery.com/

Here is the website and if you click on the "Introducing Mermaids Gluten-free cakes and cupcakes" it will take you to more information about it. And that was where we found a really nice sentence about Eric! I had to keep reading it until it sunk in because it is true!

"We brought in an award winning gluten-free pastry chef, and tested dozens of original recipes until the cakes were so good, and so moist, that it is comparable if not better than our original flour recipe!"

Eric brought home a piece of chocolate cake for me to try and I could not stop eating it. It was the best tasting cake he has ever made!

The owner and Eric are now working on making cake mixes to market and put into Whole Foods.....we will see what happens!


(Gluten-free is taking wheat out of the recipe and replacing it with other flours...any nut or bean can be a flour. Eric just had to find a balance of different flours that would react well with the other ingredients.)

Pumpkin Patch- Late I know!

Late post but oh well!

The Friday before Halloween we went to the pumpkin patch with Eric's aunt, uncle and cousins and here are the cute pictures they got of the kids.

Lily is One!

Ok she has been 1 for almost a week now but we had her party this weekend.Eric was going to make her birthday cake at the bakery that he is doing his co-op (internship) at but they had issues and it didn't happen. So I got all of the ingredients together and Eric mixed it and the next morning he only had time to make Swiss butter-cream for me then he had to go to work. So I had about 2-3 hours to make her cake, finish a carrot cake for Eric's uncle that was turning 50 that did not want a princess castle cake (i don't blame him one bit),and make garlic bread. Then in the middle of all of the baking Eric's grandma locker her keys in her car during tithing settlement. So we went to save her (not bad at all only about 20 minutes outside of the kitchen). So warning: the cake is nothing of what we planned on and Eric still wants to make her cake but we will see.

Overall her birthday was great. She was fun to watch open presents once she figured out what to do. We have decided since she has learned this new trick of opening presents they will not be under the tree until Christmas eve. She was really cute eating her cake, she was very cautious and no where near as messy as Aiden. Their personalities are so different!

At age one she weighs in at 24 pounds! (Lets just say Aiden is currently at 28 pounds) And is in size 18 month clothes but some are already 24 months)
She loves food! She is a social eater meaning if someone is eating she has to be eating too! We really have yet to find a food she does not like. I guess she was born into the right family!
Her current nicknames: Lil, Lily-Bug, Big Bug, and Fat Girl (Aiden's favorite)
She is working on walking which she has been working on for about a month now. She is just very cautious about it, and crawling is faster anyway!
Her first word was Dog and that was just a few days ago!
She loves to follow her brother around and drive him crazy!

Happy Birthday Lily-Bug!