3.2.1. Bounce

For Jaden's birthday, we all went to 3.2.1. Bounce... which is this huge facility that has about 8 ginormus bounce houses & slides. All the kids, big & small, had a blast! Few pictures...

The big goofballs...

Ethne said this was called"Dance Bouncing".

Tristan & Daddy in the Boxing Bouncer.

Gwen on the big slide!

Leaving the bounce room to go have cake & presents.
Tristan said he was "too hot" for a picture. lol.

Fall...

Happy Little Squirrel

Such a poser...

Ditto...

M. Monroe

Since she is my Idol, I am currently reading "The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe". I appreciate how it starts out with the focus on her grandparents, mother, and people who influenced her during her childhood. It is haunting.

The making of the Jeep Cake...

For Tim's birthday this year, Amanda & I wanted to make his cake in the form of a Jeep Wranger. Keeping it on the down low, we got together on at my house on our usual craft night to build the cake and have it ready for Saturday. Amanda found a Guinness cake recipe online and we set out to the store to get all the ingredients.

Shopping was more like an episode of a reality TV show... it was hilarious. Realizing we would probably have to make extra cake layers, in case we fudged it up... plus we planned on making cupcakes for everyone else, it felt like we were cleaning the store out of baking ingredients.

We got home from shopping around 8pm and set everything up. It was intense looking, you couldn't even see the counters. We decided to have some Guinness before we got started. lol.

Um... so 6 hours later... the icing is colored, the Jeep cake layers assembled, rice crispy treats formed into rocks are cooling, and we are completely goofy. Problem occurs when we start icing the Jeep... it no longer wants to stay up on the base cake. We then relocate to the garage freezer, to continue icing while propping it up with the rocks & donuts tires. It's DONE! We are feeling so victorious!

Talking to Tim & icing the rocks.

Icing the Jeep!

Jeep needs a time out to set... TO THE FREEZER!

Top view of the finished cake.

Whoo-hoo!

White Album = Non-Stop Play

Just cuz he loves me so... Justin bought me the digitally remastered White Album for the one and only, The Beatles. I am in heaven! THANK YOU JUSTIN!!!

That's my story, morning glory. ;)

The Kid

Sunday, Bri & I were able to attend the last M's game of the season. We hit the Pyramid Brewery early for beer & nachos to watch the Seahawks vs the Colts. Then headed over to the team store and grabbed some Griffey gear & got an autographed book from the author of "The Kid Returns", which is a really cute book. We took our seats, front row bleachers in left field, sat back & relaxed. It was an amazing day. We walked over behind home plate and snuck into some seats so we could watch Griffey's possible last at bat. No home run, but a base hit was enough. Brian cried... I cried... then the standing "O"... a tip of his hat & a wave... and that was it. I love baseball.

Will the Kid return again???