Have I mentioned that some of our best friends are moving overseas with us to Saudi Arabia? Well, they are and we are SUPER excited about living over there together. Three years ago we met Micah and Stephanie and became instant friends. Micah and Brooks work together, and Stephanie is a PE coach, lived in Baton Rouge for a while growing up, and we just had a lot in common with these guys! They lived near us and Stephanie and I even worked at the same school together. Stephanie's parents have lived in Saudi for 5 years, thus this couples willingness and enthusiasm to move over there! I don't think that I'd be so "eager" to go over there if they weren't going too.
Well, they had a going away party this weekend with friends and family. It was a crawfish boil- woohoo and a lot of fun! Micah leaves in May for Saudi and Stephanie will join him in June. The process for families/spouses to get over there is different and I will explain all of that as we get closer to our departure date. We're really going to miss having them here in Houston, but know that we will get lots of time together for the next 3-5 years!
Here are some pics from the party!
The Sperling's
All the girls hanging out!
Steph's parents giving their speech!
Gavin and his best buddy Cade goofing around!
Stephanie asked me to make a cake for their party. She originally wanted a crawfish coming out of a mud hole in a desert. Well, I was a little nervous my mud hole would turn out looking like a pile of poo so I decided to incorporate the two a different way.
The camels are sugar cookies made from a camel cookie cutter Steph's mom purchased in Saudi. I made the palm trees using pretzel rods, covered in fondant and the leaves are fondant, too. I made the "sand" by crushing up Vanilla Wafers in a food processor. The crawfish pot is chocolate cake covered in fondant. The pot's lid was removable and the crawfish inside were edible. I found these cute crawfish molds online and filled them with vanilla flavored candy melts. The table cloth under the crawfish pot was fondant and I painted the red squares on. The flames on the bottom of the crawfish pot were red and yellow buttercream icing mixed. Micah and Stephanie's favorite kind of cake is white cake with white icing so that's what this one was. I had fun making this one and liked getting to try new things!
I caught Cade eating one of the palm trees... too cute!
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