I like to decorate cakes.  I don't really know how it started, I guess my mom instilled a love of creative cakes in me as a child.  Every month of my first year she baked me a cake to celebrate each month.  Our birthday cakes growing up were nothing short of amazing. From a dinosaur volcano to Daffy Duck it always wowed everyone. Once I had Halleigh I knew that I had to carry on the birthday-cake-every-month-for-the-first-year tradition.  And then I delved a little deeper by making a groom's cake and then a baby shower cake, and now I can't stop.  Enjoy the gallery, as I make more, I'll continue posting them.

This is the cake that I made Halleigh for her first month birthday.  I was still recovering from the birth and so that is why it wasn't so exciting.  Halleigh sure was "Wonderful at One Month."

This is the second month birthday cake. The idea in my head was better than the finished product... looks kind of like a giant pink doughnut. mmmmm...

I have to admit that I am a little embarrassed by this cake.  It's ugly, I know. We were in Utah and had been gone all day, it was Christmas Eve at about 11:45pm, and I needed to get Halleigh and myself in bed, so I just threw on sprinkles and three santa's (for three months), took a picture and called it a night. Sorry Halleigh.

This is the beginning of the cute cakes that I made for Halleigh. This is in honor of winter... four months in January.  Everything is frosting except the arms and they are Kit Kat bars.

I was sick and this was the best that I could do.  I had big plans for a couple of cute concentric, interlocking hearts of pink and red... but I was REALLY sick and do this is all I could do.

Half of a cake for a half of a year

In honor of Easter, and Easter Egg. I really liked keeping with the theme of the month... helped to keep creativity flowing.

This was the spring theme. I think that with our other kids I will try to do more shapes insead of a decorated rectangle cakes, but this was cute for spring.

We had just come back from the beach with my parents, and what better way to celebrate than to have a beach ball cake. This too was a first, because at this point we were so sick of cake EVERY month, and this is actually a circular brownie. It was delicious!

This was the July cake, I didn't really think this cake out before I did it and so it has more stripes than the actual flag has... and too few stars. but it gets the idea across that it is a flag, and it is cute.

This was the one-year cake. I wanted to do something really special for the year cake, since she had cakes all along every month. So here is a ladybug. This was my favorite cake to make and it turned out SO cute! The bottom layer is a 16' round cookie that has been frosten with green to look like grass.