Happy warm summer day

Wiggly

15 weeks. We have temporarily named the baby, wiggly. Wiggly would not sit still long enough to have the midwife listen to its heart beat. Wiggly kept swimming away. The midwife was laughing about it. He said if wiggly can swim around that much, the spinal column is most likely great. Yay!!

I went to the city wide rummage sale in barnesville yesterday. I found a swing,, pack and play, bouncy seat, and a lot of other things in great condition. That pack and play was complicated though! We got it all set up though. Now everything just needs a good cleaning. It will be a lot of fun to go shopping once we know if wiggly is a boy or girl.

I had to include a picture of Murphy. He's on his way to his first rummage sale.

I forgot to include the fact that mine sent me flowers to work. What a nice surprise on a Friday.

Fave New Toy

Murphy loves his new toy!

No more pictures please.....

Tug of war

Not too much going on....random pictures.

This is the one time Mike got to use the snow blower for legitimate snow.  He was excited.

Family pizza night.  It was a big hit. 

My side has the olives. 

Heading to the dog park!  Murphy was super excited.

Lego Cake

Jaden has been big into Lego's for awhile now.  When I found out we were going to get to celebrate his birthday together, I knew I wanted to make him a cake.  Catherine helped me find the directions/recipe for this one.

Jaden chose yellow cake.  First you bake a cake mix in a 9x13' pan.

Then you get your frosting ready.  The bettycrocker.com recipe said to use 2 containers of frosting.  I definitely had enough.  Mix them with whatever colors you want.  I wanted vibrant Lego colors, so I ended up using entire containers of food coloring for each.

Now, after waiting forever for the cake to cool, you cut it into 3 equal pieces.  Then, you cut one of those pieces in half.  You have 2 rectangle legos and 2 square legos now.  Put them in the freezer for about an hour and then you can do a quick layer of frosting........this helps with the crumbs.  I dipped my knife in hot water in between swipes of frosting.  Then the cake goes back in the freezer for an hour.

Take the pieces out and now it is time for the real frosting.  Do a nice, pretty layer.  To make the pegs of the Lego, cut a large marshmallow in half and frost each half.  This part is tricky and pretty messy.  Keep going, you are almost done!

  I stacked mine together a little and Jaden really loved it.  For some reason those pictures won't download, so this will have to do :)