Last Soccer Game

Ethan enjoyed playing in his last soccer game of the season yesterday.  We sure have had fun watching the games.  He really loved it and was sad to have it end.  The last two games he started to really figure it out too, and actually got in there a few times to kick the ball!  We were proud of him and glad he had the experience.  The Sharks finished the season with 4 wins, 2 losses, and 1 tie (gotta love soccer).  They really did great!

 Ethan with his two buddies!

Bride and Groom

I know I don't need to post dozens of wedding pictures here, but to finish off the wedding posting week, I thought I'd share a few nice ones.

Wedding Details

I guess I really just prefer photographing inanimate objects.  Because as I went through all the wedding photos I took, my favorites were the ones I like to call "wedding details".  And these inanimate details were the majority of my photos too.  Pictures of the bride and groom are still in the editing phase, but until then, I'll share with you Wedding Details:

Wedding Cupcakes

This past Saturday, I had the opportunity to cater cupcakes for my husband's cousin's wedding.  This was my first opportunity to make cupcakes on such a grand scale - 18 dozen - and I absolutely loved the experience.   I would definitely do it again.  In fact, if I could open up my own cupcake shop today, I just might!  It really was a privilege and a joy. 

Here are all the finished cupcakes, waiting to be displayed at the wedding

I spent the five days leading up to the wedding making the 216 cupcakes.  Thanks to my Bosch, I could make four dozen in one batch. 

 Piping in the batter made it quick and clean, and helped keep the cupcakes all the same size

 Now multiply this by four or five and you can imagine what my kitchen looked like!  The cupcakes I made early, I froze in dozens in freezer bags until the morning of the wedding.

 Wedding day, I woke up early and made three triple batches of frosting.  Strawberry, Key Lime, and Vanilla.  This, my friends, is a LOT of frosting - enough to frost 8 dozen cupcakes!  Let's just say that I may or may not have gone through 16 sticks of butter and 7 32oz. packages of powered sugar.

 The wedding colors were light green accents with navy and bright pink.  Hence my choices for cupcakes:

Key Lime

 Blackberry Vanilla

 And Strawberry

 Let's have a closer look

Key Lime

 Blackberry Vanilla

 and Strawberry

Strawberry turned out to be the favorite. The frosting tasted like fresh strawberries, and I have to admit, it was my favorite too.

 My sister-in-law did all the cupcake stands and decor.  It turned out to be so beautiful.  I really felt overwhelmed with how wonderful it turned out.  All that work was SO worth it.  I loved every part of the process.  And I loved helping make this wedding day a little sweeter.

Wishlist Item

I shouldn't have been looking at handbags online last night, because now I want one of them.  A lot.  Look how pretty it is:

(Source here)

I think it is supposed to be mine.  That is what I thought when I once saw a plum velvet chair in Pier 1.  But I got over it.  

A Little Fall Decor

In September, I sewed this table runner.  I wanted to have a little more Autumn-ness in my house this year.  The colors make me happy and in the mood for sweaters, boots, pumpkin bread and soup.

 Ethan, however, was not nearly as impressed with my fall decor.  He looked around and said you couldn't even tell that there were any decorations at all!  Besides the table runner (which has found a more permanent home across my piano due to the large number of projects done on my table each day), the mantle is all there is in the way of decorating.

We do have four pumpkins on our porch from Grandpa's pumpkin patch, but because they are outside, Ethan says they don't count! 

Perhaps I'll have to collect a few more things!  I adore the copper pumpkins and Tai Pan, but I don't adore the price tag.  Oh well, Ethan will just have to wait until Christmas for a house full of decor.  And seeing how fast things are going this year, it won't take long!

Happy October!