Fair Time…Can't Touch This…

I guess now that life is slowing down (LOL!) I have a moment or two (I should be homeschooling) where I can post some thoughts and pics.

To be honest (and when am I not) I do most of my blurbing on Facebook, even twitter has gone to the wayside now that I use my little netbook for most of my computer work. (Need to get TweetDeck installed.)

So if you want to keep up, friend me on Facebook… I’ll try and be more thoughtful and thought provoking in my post from time to time, but right now I have to brag on my 13 year old son.

This summer he decided he wanted to take the cake decorating classes at Michael’s hobby store. So knowing that we couldn’t squeeze it in during the school year and being that the classes were HALF price, he took all three and has been a cake making fool ever since. (Anyone who knows him, knows he’s NO fool!)

Anyway, he’s wowed his family and friends and even teachers with his cake projects and now he got to wow the whole state (well, technically the city) with FIRST PRIZE award winning cake in the State Fair.

This kid is no stranger to winning. He’s won first prize in a homeschool children’s book contest when he was ten or eleven and last year he won third place in a Veteran’s Essay contest without even trying (his words.) This summer I told him he could probably earn a bunch of money just by entering contest, but he didn’t listen to his wise old mom. Maybe after this win he’ll take my suggestion more seriously.

The cake was judged 50% on taste, 25% on looks and I think another 25% on difficulty of skill. The two cakes to the right are second and third place.

What do you think? Think he’s the next cake boy? For more pic of his cakes go here

And in sticking with the title of the blog, here are all the foods I didn’t EAT at the fair.

Nothing really appealed to me except a lamb Gyro, so that’s what I got. And I enjoyed all $8 worth of the sloppy mess. Note to self, next time tell them to go light on the onions!