Hedgehog

Awhile back I was talking on Facebook about the cupcakes I was making for my brothers girlfriend for her birthday (which is the same day as E's bday!).
She has a pet hedgehog Quilla who is so cute. I saw in a Martha Stewart Living magazine a hedgehog cupcake pattern, so I just had to try my hand at it....take a peak:


Awe!
It took forever, but they were so cute!

Some are better than others.
The frosting was really melting because it was so hot that day.

This is what they looked like in the magazine, not bad for my first real
cupcake decorating=)

Vacation Day 2

The day after we went to the zoo we went whit water rafting as a family.
We were very much looking forward to this adventure, and boy was it.
Josh and I and Merci paddled our hearts out for 11.5 miles.
There were tears, there were many times we gave up and there was fun in between.
We needed a bit more man power and bigger rapids, I cannot wait to go with some adults to bigger rapids!


Our little look out.
E was not help paddling, since the paddle was twice as big as him, so he sat on the front of the raft to watch for rocks=)

After lots of screaming and crying we finally got E to get off the raft into the water-we went on the family float and the rapids were nothing to fear, so much of the trip was calm water, so we swam a lot.
(60 degrees...brrr, but it was mid 90's so it felt really good!)

=)

My love.
My heart flutters just to look at him.
I am forever grateful for this man.

The scenery was beautiful all around.
It was so peaceful amidst all the hard work of paddling for 11 miles.
My arm sure did ache for days.

Vacation Day 1

The weekend before school started (Aug 15-17) we were finally able to go on a mini vacation.
We left on Saturday and went to the Pittsburgh zoo.
It was nice to visit a different zoo (and for free with our zoo membership!!)


Look at his lip they are hilarious!
I caught him in mid chew...lol

They had a underwater tunnel where at the polar bear exhibit, and we were fortunate enough to see one swimming around!

Kind of a blurry yet cool picture of Mr Polar bear!

Piranhas at the really nice aquarium.

I miss having penguins at our zoo, they are so cute!

We paid big buck to have this picture taken and we also got to pet her, it was so neat though, and E loves elephants.

Look at the elephants trunk...Merci must have smelled good=)

First Day of School 2009

Well here are the obligatory first day of school photos.

Ethan on his first day of Kindergarten!

Merci on her first day of 4th grade.

Amazing how time flies!
This was last Thursday Aug 20th.
Today was their 3rd day.

I got cash for GOLD

I have been seeing these dumb cash for your old gold commercial, billboards, you name it...everywhere.
I wasn't sure if I trusted them to be honest.

Well...I tried cash for gold with the stuff I knew was just junk and if I didn't get paid, oh well...AND to my surprise I got about $20 deposited into my paypal account a few days ago! And some of the stuff I sent wasn't real gold and I guess the silver I sent wasn't being accepted, and they sent that all back free of charge...they paid for the postage to get to them also. I just printed out a prepaid label and dropped off my package in the Quick FedEx drop box and that was that!

They emailed me an offer after they received the package and I could accept or decline, I accepted, and got paid the next day, and about 3 days later received my old stuff back...I was greatly surprised!!

The $20 I got was for the 3 random small hoop earrings and the D charm that I wore in middle school or something, you know...when they were cool! I consider that a good deal, $20 for old "junk" sitting in my jewelry box...wish I had some broken chains or something I could have got more.

Hopefully you have the same GREAT results I did, if you try this company!