Sweet Sunday

Colin, Cason & Connor

Today is shaping up to be a wonderful day. I am over at Andrea's house with her little ones while she is up at the hospital with her sister-in-law who is giving birth to her first child. Andrea's husband is stuck at work, so Auntie Jennifer to the rescue.

I absolutely adore her children, so it is no hardship at all! Her two oldest, Connor (6) and Colin (4), are outside playing with their friends, and I am inside with little Cason, who is about 20 months. He has the most beautiful, big blue eyes I have ever seen. He is such a little monkey.

When Andrea left he disolved into tears, much to my chagrin, but they do not call be the baby whisperer for nothing! After a quick round of snuggles and soothing whispers, we plopped down on the couch to watch his all time favorite show- no, not Barney, not the mover people...Winged Migration! He loves birds. Anytime he is upset Andrea puts it on and he instantly forgets! We have been watching it for about 40 minutes now and he is still enchanted. Every now and then he turns around to me and says "burd"and smiles.

Clockwise: Connor, Colin and Cason

Colin just came in side and asked me to help him put his shoes back on. It did escape me to ask how they came off in the first place, but that is such a little boy thing. He then handed me a gum ball and asked if we could cut it in half. After I was done he looked at the two pieces and informed me that he was going to take the smaller one and "give the big one to Wes".

I have to say, she has raised some wonderful little kids.

Cason just laid a pillow on my lap and put his head down. I thought he might be ready for his nap, but no, he just wanted to snuggle for a bit. I can handle that. :o)

Old friends

Very busy last week and weekend, so Sunday was spent recovering, which I did not actually do as I had to go grocery shopping and then go find us a dryer as ours decided to die Monday night with three wet loads of laundry. Lovely! Thankfully I found a great deal at Lowes on a nice Whirpool which was 7.0 cubic ft. Works great, looks great and the price was right!

So onto the next few days which were hectic, and then Tuesday night Stephanie came over so we could start making a cake for Andrea's birthday. Her actual birthday was the 29th, but since I had Vanessa's party and Andrea had family stuff, we all decided to make it Friday we would get together.

We decided on a two layer lemon cake with cream cheese frosting and fondant with lemon extract flavoring. So Tuesday night we baked one of the cakes and rolled out the fondant. Wendesday I baked the second cake and iced them. Thursday Steph came back over and we decorated. I think this one turned out really good! We were both very pleased.

Last night we met Andrea at Logans and suprised her with a cute balloon bouquet, her cake and presents. She was surprised and loved her cake. I have to say it was pretty tastey! We had a great night and visited for hours,ate way too many peanuts and drank way too much Roadhouse Iced Teas!!

I love my friends. We were there talking until 9:30! Then Stephanie and I ran to Target and picked up a few things. It was a great night. Here's to over 20 years of amazing friendships! I love you, guys!