Reasons I love my fiancé...

There are many, many reasons that I love Karl. Some of them are more conventional, for example, reason number 3: he may act like the big man, but in reality he is a massive softie. And reason number 14: he gives the most amazing foot massages!
Some of the reasons are a little stranger, and probably don't make much sense to anyone else. For example, reason number 57: we often have entire conversations using just "mmhh" sounds. You know, like the noise you make when someone asks you a question and you have a mouthful of food. We can literally talk for about 10 minutes using just 'mouthful noises', and when we do, I love him a little bit more. That might be weird, but it's true.

Something happened today that has been added to my list of reasons why I love my fiancé.

So, reason number 136: today, Karl turned to me and said "Are you aware that it is almost exactly 9 months until we get married? 9 months on Monday, actually."

I just looked at him for a second. Of course I was aware of that, but I was not aware that he was aware of it! This is the man that has to look at me for confirmation every time anyone asks what our wedding date is. I was impressed that he had remembered our date, and touched that he was actually thinking about the wedding. It might sound like no big deal to you, but as far as I knew, he barely ever thought about the wedding. I love it when he surprises me!

Anyway, only 9 months to go! How exciting!

Sorry, I'm rubbish...

Deepest apologies for not blogging as often recently - I know you've been spoilt by twice a day updates, so to go so mnay days with nothing must have been difficult. However, I have a good reason - I started a new job! Yay me!

I wont bore you with the details, but will say that I am loving it so far. Unfortunately it means I have less free time to blog, bit I promise I'll try to update atleast a few times a week.

The other issue is that we are currently at that 'inbetween' stage of our wedding planning, where we have chosen pretty much everything and made all the big decisions, but we are not quite ready to actually buy/make things yet. This means that I don't have too much to blog about at the moment. But no matter, I'm sure I'll change my mind about something, and pretty soon we will be able to actually start doing things! Hurray!

Rainbow Cake

Ages and ages ago, I posted a picture of a layered rainbow cake - today I made one!

Now, I am not the best baker in the world, so if my cakes don't collapse or give anyone food poisoning, I'd call them a success.

This cake was much easier to make than I imagined, it just took a long time because I only had one cake tin that was the right size, so I had to make each layer, cook it, clean the tin and then make the next layer, as opposed to cooking all 5 layers at once.

Here is the purple layer (yes that is purple!) about to go into the oven. Karl made fun of me because I couldn't quite get the right mix of food colouring to make purple, so it looks a bit weird.

When each layer was cooked, I turned it out onto the wire rack to cool. And no, the purple mix did not magically turn green. I only remembered to take pictures of some of the layers.

When the layers were cool I spread jam on top and placed them together.

And then I covered the whole thing in vanilla butter cream. I was actually quite scared to cut into in in case it all collapsed, but I am so impressed with how it turned out!

And it tastes amazing!

I really think that this would make a fantastic wedding cake, and I'm not just saying that because I needed a tedious link in order to justify showing off my cake on my wedding blog...

Seriously, I can totally imagine a huge, tiered cake with lovely smooth white icing on the outside, and crazy coloured layers on the inside! If you had big enough cake tins you could probably make it yourself too!

Anyway, I must go, I have a cake to eat!