2008 Olympics

Riley celebrated her birthday with an Olympic themes party, so I had to wrack my brain to come up with something impressive! Not a whole lot of Olympic cakes out there to inspire me! The idea for the sugar flames came last minute as I knew I did not have enough time to make them from sugarpaste and rice krispie treats were just not inspiring me. Total DUH moment when I realized that the obvious answer was sugar!

I wish I had taken a picture of the inside of the cake as it was all rainbow colors - I'm sure the girls were surprised when they cut into the cake!

I told you he was cool.

And for the record, yes, he is "smoking" a piece of cheese.

Disturbing and hilarious all at the same time.

Again, I apologize in advance to my cousins with adorable, sweet little babies. I really don't mean to scare you.

Really.

Stephenisms VII

So everyone once in awhile Stephen leaves notes for people. I have found a few around the house, like the one that told me he was up at 4:57 am.

This is the latest one:
I just found it this morning and he is not awake yet - can't WAIT to hear the explanation on THIS one!

At least his spelling and handwriting are coming along nicely....

To all my cousins with boys...

They are gonna think Stephen is SO COOL when they get bigger, and wanna be just like him! Sorry 'bout that.

ChartreuseThumb?

Ok, so maybe I don't have a GREEN thumb, maybe it's only chartreuse. Believe it or not we are getting a few tomatoes on the deck, a poor little pepper and some beans.

Not quite a Victory Garden, but we've had a lot going on over here. Heck if it weren't for Mom who knows if those plants would have made it off the windowsill!

Hello Home & Garden!

LOVE IT!!!

Thank you Home Depot - 12 months no payments ;-)