Category: Home Life

Unlike many people I know and much to my sister Michelle’s chagrin, I don’t get upset about my birthday. I LOVE my birthday! With it being a Friday I automatically turned it into a birthday weekend. HA! So Thursday Nadia and I met some friends at the zoo.

Then Friday morning my good friend Laura and her daughter met Nadia and I at a Nail Spa for pedicures. They chose a green tea pedicure, but I chose CHOCOLATE! I smelled like a candy bar for the next 6 hours. It was awesome! Here we are at the nail spa.

Nadia was so well behaved and after about half an hour she started to work the room entertaining the staff and other customers while I was enjoying the relaxing pedicure. After that we all headed to The Cheesecake Factory for lunch and it was fantastic. Nadia had the best time with Laura and Teresa.

 

I grabbed some to go food for Mike and ran it by his office. He had a dozen long stem red roses waiting there for me!! So sweet. Then we headed home and relaxed and Nadia had a nap. Then that night it was time for class 1 of my Course 3 cake class.  On Saturday we went shopping to spend some gift cards that I had and by working a typical Louanne deal I got 3 pairs of pants and 2 shirts at NYC and still had some cash left on my gift card. Then I picked up a free pair of shoes with my birthday coupon from DSW! All in all it was great fun!

And Nadia’s new thing is to hide and then call for you if you don’t come looking fast enough. The morning of my birthday I heard, “Mama, mama!” When I opened the door, this is what I saw.

This post is nearly 2 weeks late, but I did want to get the photos up because Nadia and her friends had such a good time on the train. It was one of our MOM’s group playdates and I think that 7 families were there. And once again I can’t post the photos of Stephanie’s kiddos, but we had a great time with them and are praying that they are adopted soon!!!

This train ride lasts about 45 minutes with a 10 minute stop at the second station where people can stretch their legs or buy snacks. Nadia was making “Choo choo” sounds the rest of the day. Nadia was fascinated by going over the bridges and that she could see turtles swimming in the water as we went over. We will definitely do this again and take Mike with us.

Last night was my last class for Wilton Course 2 cake decorating and the photo above was the big finale! And yes, I made all the flowers by hand out of royal icing so they get rock hard. I have had so much fun learning this new hobby and will start Course 3 this Friday. Course 3 is tiered cakes and fondant which should be an adventure.

Here was the finale cake for Course 1. They tell you that you can’t give up on the Rose until you have tried to make 200, but trust me you get it long before that. I found that I like the Victorian roses we learned in course 2 much better than these Wilton roses, but it’s just personal preference. In course 3 we will learn to make a rose out of fondant. Roses seem to be popular in the Wilton world.

Here is the clown cake I made in Course 1. I thought they were so cute!