Cake

I just finished course one of the cake class they offer here on base...I loved it! I plan on taking all 4 courses that they offer if I can. What I would really like to do is start doing cakes for people. A friend of mine just let me do her twin girls 2nd birthday cakes and I had a lot of fun doing them. Here are a couple pictures of the cakes.

My Final Cake in Course 1

Sewing Sewing and More Sewing

So last month I knew a couple people having babies..I decided to make them baby blankets and I also made a couple large changing table covers.

I made two blankets like this one

This is a changing table cover...I made this one and a green monkey one

I also made one blanket like this one

My Birthday!

Well my birthday was my mom's last day out here...so we enjoyed the day together. I had a PartyLite show at noon which turned out to be pretty good. Then we took the boys to the duck pond and by the time we got from the house to the pond Bredon had already fell asleep, so Tyler got to feed the ducks while Bredon slept. The weather turned out pretty nice and the seagulls were a little calmer than they were on Easter, so the duck feeding was a success. After feeding the ducks we went back home, by this time Darrell was home from work and it was time for dinner. Since my mom had baby sat the kids so Darrell and I could go out earlier in the week we all went out to dinner for my birthday. We had a delicious meal at Boston's and then enjoyed an ice cream from cold stone. I had a wonderful day with my family!!

Bredon Enjoying His Ice Cream

Tyler's very first cold stone ice cream that

he didn't have to share with anyone

Enjoying Our Ice Cream

Nana and the boys saying good bye... the night before she had to leave

Happy Easter!!!

Easter was a relaxing day for us. The Easter Bunny hid the eggs and the Lollipops grew in the grass...Tyler LOVED picking lollipops and Bredon LOVED finding the eggs. The egg hunting was comical when Bredon lost an egg...we have a few holes in our back yard just big enough for and egg to slip into and they are about a foot and a half deep...well Bredon dropped some eggs and one landed on a hole and when he tried to pick it up...it disappeared right into the hole. Mom and I could stop laughing because the way it all happened it was very funny. After the egg disappeared Bredon told mom that he lost an egg. After we hunted eggs and picked the lollipops we headed to the Duck Pond to feed the ducks...that ended up not being the best idea that day. The wind was blowing like crazy and when we were trying to feed the ducks we were being bombarded by a flock of seagulls hovering above our heads...we decided to try it again another day. After we went home, we BBQ'd Cheeseburgers. Hope Everyones Easter was Wonderful, I know ours was.

Getting ready to pick the lollipops that grew over night

Tyler LOVED picking the lollipops!!

Bredon did too...but he was more into hunting for eggs

Nana and the Boys

Early Easter

Well, once again Darrell went on Alert on Easter so the Easter Bunny brought baskets the night before. The evening before Easter we had our Easter Dinner (Halibut!!!), opened our Easter Baskets, Dyed Easter Eggs and Planted "Lollipop Seeds".

Bredon and Nana Dying Eggs...

Tyler had already gone to bed by this time, he will help dye eggs next year!!

Darrell helping dye eggs

After egg dying Bredon planted the "lollipop" seeds for him and Tyler

An Easter Suprise

So my mom had been looking at plane tickets for a couple weeks and they were all REALLY expensive, so we didn't think we would be having company for Easter...well, the Thursday before Easter mom thought she would look one last time at tickets and she found one that was not a bad price at all to fly out here. She had told me that she was coming but the kids didn't know, so the day before Easter I told Bredon I had to go somewhere and pick up a surprise for him...when we got back he was sooooo excited. He ran up to her and said "NANA!!!" and gave her a huge hug! Tyler was also very happy...he was Nana's attachment for the whole week. This was a wonderful last minute surprise!

Thank you so much mom for coming to visit us! It means so much to us to have family that can come and is willing to visit us so far from "home".