Buddies

Best friends are the greatest things!

Kerry's big day

Well, July 21st was Kerry's Birthday. So, we celebrated the weekend before. Nicholas was with us, and so we had our traditional yellow cake with chocolate icing and ice cream per Kerry's request. The boys made cards and we got him some expensive coffee from the Briar and Bean. He was thrilled, as he has been bugging me for some time now to get something better than Folgers!

Here are the boys blowing out the candles. You will notice the lack of clothing and nice underwear prints on Z and N. Prior to this, the boys had a war! What does that mean? Well, they wanted to do something fun with daddy and that can only mean one thing.





Two buckets full of these nifty little things. While a little time consuming to get ready for, these are tons of funs when your birthday is in July and it is 100 degrees outside. They had a blast and were soaked! But, mostly just some good 'ol fashioned fun with Dad!

My new found green thumb

Last year this is all we had, we planted too late and ended up with only green tomatoes. This year, I put them out at the beginning of May and this is what we have so far.





Until last week, when we had this! I can't believe it. I kill everything that is trying to grow and this year all of my flowers are still alive, my lavender plants are huge and I managed to grow actual food that we can live on! Well, not on one tomato, but...more are coming! I'm very proud!

This is Chloe keeping an eye on all of the birds and squirrels outside. Since she is too small, she needs a lift up. How cute is her tail sticking straight out at attention. She is all business!

It never fails....

I am never surprised by people's reaction to chocolate. Last week I made a Tunnel of Fudge cake. It was the richest chocolate cake I've ever tried to bake. I followed the recipe perfectly, but, for some reason, it came out really gooey in the middle. The idea was that you put the cake ingredients in a bundt pan and then bake it only for 50 minutes in the oven and then let it sit and bake on its own on the cooling rake for two more hours and then flip it out of the pan and cool again for another hour. I know, it was a highly technical endeavor for me, the cake mix queen. But, I thought the picture in the cookbook looked awesome. It had six eggs, two sticks of butter and so on and so on, my thighs are growing just thinking about it. The point was that it would be baked on the outside ring and gooey on the inner one. Well, I thought it was too gooey so, back into the oven it went for another 20 mins and then I quit with it and called it a disaster. But, I still had an entire cake, which when sliced would have fed twenty. I brought it in to work, and it was devoured inside of 15 minutes. "It was the best cake" they all had ever had! You've got to be kidding! There is no picture, there weren't even any crumbs! So, I guess I will keep it in the 'ol recipe box :)