My older sister got married on May 22nd, and I thought I might share a few highlights!

One of my duties was to make the groom’s cake… which was a fantastically successful experiment. This particular groom is on a strict no-HFCS diet, with some other requirements too. He loves Clif and Kashi bars though, so this was the perfect solution for him…

…a cake made from Clif Builder Bars and Kashi Chewy Bars. There were three layers–the bottom (not visible) was square and had a layer of chocolate Clif and one of peanut butter Clif, the second was peanut butter Kashi, and the third (the star–for the Air Force, it was a motif on the invitations as well) was oatmeal raisin Kashi. Basically, I crumbled the bars in a food processor (after removing the chewy layer on the Clif bars) and melted them down with some milk before placing them in various pans and freezing them until they were hard enough to safely remove from the pans. I then stacked them up and drizzled white chocolate (HFCS-free, of course) over the whole shebang. I actually never got a taste of it, but my uncle, who is also on a strict diet, thought he was cheating until I told him what the cake was actually made of. He said it tasted kind of like a brownie. So I think I did a pretty good job with that one.

Also, we went camping for the bachelorette party, and I petted a goat. I never knew they had such crazy eyes!

And in case you saw my new haircut in the last post, this is how much I cut off:

And of course, the happy couple (with my sister in her custom-designed wedding dress made by her fashion-school graduate friend):