Round Up

5-21

 We went to Gettysburg and had lunch with the McGraws at a restaurant practically in my cousin's backyard.  We were planning on going to a Green event but it was raining so we just changed to just lunch out. And Lochlan had a fever and snotty nose so lunch was just fine. 

A photo of his lose tooth while we waited. 

5-22

Missed Instagraming for Sunday.  Landon came over for several hours and the boys played and had a good time.  I do like the Google photo memories.  This was Baylor's second trip to the beach.  I saved it and sent it to my parents. 

5-24

Another Sugar Skull ready and framed.  Diane will be so please but now I have to get it in the mail. 

5-25

Last Monday as a First Grader.  

I was off for the day because Gloria had an appointment and I was going with her.  When we got home, I worked in the gardens weeding and working.  I need to dig out this huge horrid weed but found it being used as a ladybug love nest.  It was given a few days reprieve. 

Before I picked up Baylor I made my first stop at Aldi for the week.  I just cannot stay out of here! 

5-24

The colors of my Spring garden are purple. 

Peonies and perennial geranium

Columbine and Meadow-rue

Grandma's alliums

5-25

Eddy wanted out and just enjoyed the sun in the grass.  I am not sure how much longer she will be with us and was so pretty I took a boatload of pictures of her.  I played with the camera filters too.  She really is just beautiful. 

5-26

Last week it was in the 50's and today it hit 88 when I was out to lunch, 

Birthday cake for Keith and Darien.  Work parties are great but bad for the waistline. 

We played with bubbles again.  Because bubbles never get old.  I need to try to make the super bubble solution because we went through two large bubble bottles in two nights.  

And totally worth it. 

5-27

My heart wore a hat today, to keep the sun off of him he said. And a white shirt because it would keep him cooler. 

I love this kid!  

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He had a half day today and Gloria was off work.  She picked him up at 3:30 and they went to see the Captain America: Civil War together.  It was a surprise for him and she said he was so excited. About two hours into the movie she texted me that his tooth came out. He did not eat any more popcorn after that and surprised me when he came home.  He asked me if I noticed anything about his smile.  I played the good Mommy and acted like I knew nothing.  

Spring Fair 2016

Friday night was the Spring Fair at the Rossmoyne Elementary school.  I picked up Baylor from COF and we picked up Kartikey to take along with us. I know his parents work off hours and I wanted him to be able to enjoy the fair as well.  And I love him and Baylor being together.  We had bought some tickets at school but not enough so I spent another $20 on tickets because of course they love the big ticket items like the bounce houses. 

Baylor's buddy at school is Mr Alex who was tending to one of the games.  Mr. Alex is also working at the Summer Camp and Baylor is excited to be able to see him over the summer as well.   

Of course the boys loved the playground, running around with all their friends they collected as we walked around. 

Baylor was the only one to climb into the tree and then could not get himself down!  I love Trevor's pose, the leg up kills me!  

These kids, the are so camera ready all the time.  

The blow up obstacle course was their favorite.  One of them always had to be the winner!  

I had volunteered to tend to the class game and while I was there Ryder was my first guest.  It was a bean bag toss game and his mom was across the way at the football toss I did last year. 

There was a DJ spinning some tunes and I had the boys show off their moves.  Baylor likes to play the air guitar when he can.  

While I did my stand, the boys of course got hungry.  Heather kindly offered to walk them over to get something to eat and they choose Rita's in red something.  

All the games gave out yellow tickets the kids could turn in for prizes.  Super valuable and super expensive prizes but we did not have to do any fund raisers this year so I will take the finger lights and slap bracelets. 

We took Kartikey home and of course they wanted to play. So I sat on his porch talking to his dad until he left and his uncle who was there until his mom came home from work.  I was amazed when they got this far up the wall but then did not know what to do. They figured it out of course and of they played in the grass until it was time to go home.  

He wore his finger lights to get the mail as it was dusk.  Goof ball. 

Round Up

3-16

We made a trip to Oak Grove to see if they have any east coast strawberries (not any labeled as such but at least showing product of the USA and seconds to boot) Baylor loves going here because of the ice cream.  He choose Irish Mint Cookie which was delicious.

3-17

If you light the candle they will come (and hopefully stop to smell the pink lilies of the valley. Thank you for the plants Grandma)

3-18

White cake with strawberry filling and whipped cream cheese frosting. 

3-19

I think I need an intervention: I have been to Aldi three times this week!  

3-20

My lopsided contribution to the Spring Fair tonight.  Yellow cake with Chocolate frosting and sprinkles. 

The Cake in Five Photos

So I fell into making a cake for one of the ladies at COF for her choir group dinner.  We talked about what she wanted, white cake, strawberry filling, whipped cream frosting and how big: half a sheet, and when: May 18th.  I made the two cakes, made the strawberry gel and sliced the strawberries on Tuesday and got up a bit early in the morning to make the frosting and assemble the cake.  Thankfully I am an early riser and this is not a issue,  Me running the mixer at 4:20 in the morning could be an issue because other people are sleeping. Thankfully everyone slept through it and I happily frosted away.  I mixed up the gel with the strawberries, made a frosting dam and filled up the layer.  

Somehow I managed to slide the second cake on top of the first and centered it the first time. 

Frosted all over, it is a soft frosting and I was hoping it would not start sliding off the cake before I got it to school and they could get it in the fridge.  (that never happened, but it could have) 

All pretty with the pretty strawberries on top and the fresh, fruity, slightly unpretty strawberries in the filling.  

I had to wake up Gloria to help me slide it into the box because it was so heavy.  And since it was taller than my cake box, I used corn skewers (shorter and thicker) to keep the top of the box off the top of the cake.  It made it safely to COF and into their fridge.  I had a small square cake made for the teachers at COF for them to enjoy as well.  

My Budding Chef

Tuesday I worked from home because I had to make a cake for someone for Wednesday and there was no way I was going to try to squeeze that into the evenings.  Thankfully, with laptops, I could do my job from the beach if I had WiFi.  But since I was going to be home, I lit the candle for my family and hoped they would stop by to smell the pink lilies of the valley flowers.   

When I went out to my car to get my laptop I saw a bird had hit the car right at my window.  They have the entire roof of the car and they hit at my window. Hopefully it will rain and go away later this week. 

I baked the cakes and between puttering around the house, I worked.  I had to pick up Baylor before 5 and needed some pretty strawberries for the cake so I ran into Aldi before going to COF.  The car next to me had one of my favorite bumper stickers, Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons... for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. 

On the nightly mail race I noticed Grandma's alliums are blooming. (along with all the weeds I have yet to remove) 

Baylor was the chef for dinner tonight and made our own fried rice.  I had everything prepped and ready for him.  I think he enjoyed it very much.  

It was delicious. 

We even have the pincher things to make the chopsticks easy for him to use.