Things I heard today from my family

"Honey I gotta go there is a mongoose outside my door watching me" Gary in hawaii

"I will take the cake and hold it so pirates don't get it" Judah

"Abby are you using that to wash your hands, well that is not soap it is hair lotion" Mason to Abby

"What is that smell? Did you spray her with hairspray?" me

"hubba hubba" all kids chanting

"I am scared I don't want to ever get lost in space" Abby

"Can I have honey dew crackers!" (gram crackers) Abby she is always messing her words up

These are just a few things that I heard today and some in the last hour.

now this is a cake!!

This is my friend Julies baby shower cake, yes the name of her blog is written on it, that is abou the cutest thing ever, www.fourplusmore.wordpress.com I want that living love out loud on mine, my good friend Aubrey said she would do the cake and I tell you she is the best in the west, she didn't do this cake but I will post some pictures of ones she does. OH the taste of them are heavenly!! The shower was great!! She will be bringing home her two kids from Ethiopia in a few months! How exciting.

Today, Sunday

Well today we went to the Amharic service at the local Ethiopian pastors church, the one our ministry team is involved with. I noticed my son's hair looked a bit greasy as he fixed himself, I just thought it was wet. But as the day grew on I realized that it was "wet" all day. I felt it and sure enough, he fixed his own hair with Judah's Africa Best Hair Mayonaise.
This is at the church, Mason sat with the other kids in Sunday school and Judah and Abby played outside.
Aren't they so cute?
Okay he looks angelic. Don't let the looks fool you though, he is a little fire ball!!!

The final Birthday cake in all it's glory

Oh my gosh not that it is a day later I am so regretting that I didn't take some home, rather I left the remains at my mother in laws house. It was actually pretty good.
The kids were drooling for it,
Oh happy 37 birthday my hunny.

The cake incident

Cake 911

That is what I get for bragging about baking a home made from scratch cake. What a disaster!! Can you see the picture, it was so dry I had to choke it down. There was no saving this puppy. So I tried again today. Here is the unfinished results of my cake today. It most likely is a flop as well as I couldn't get the egg whites to stiffen and then I added things at the wrong time and then my blender broke and I nearly splattered eggs everywhere, upon which time I used profanity that starts with s!!!! Those of you that know me know that I don't cuss but man alive I am covered it raw eggs and batter and who knows what. I have always been able to bake a decent cake but I think my bragging jinxed me or something. The frosting was a whole other issue, I didn't have syrup and enough butter, I even ran out of milk but you know what it is what it is. Currently cooling in the fridge. It is probably dry as the last cake and I won't know until Gary's whole family samples it. Did I mention it was for his birthday? Here are the pictures of my fiasco. Oh ya I forgot to add in the first cake and the first try Abby stuck her head in the batter. Nice.

Coolest Picture ever! I caught Abby's shadow

This a neat picture because in that brief second of running I was able to catch just Abbys shadow on the wall as she ran behind a tree. Like peter pan she needs to sew her shadow to her feet, it has gotten away from her.

Netsanet

She was opening the little doll I sent her. So cute.

okay love my camera!!

Approaching night fall
We stayed to watch the fountains
My daughter, all her girly charm. What is it with little girls?
The fountains at our lake
watching the fountains