Another Birthday cake

Jill turned 25 and we had a little celebration on Sunday. Rob and Jill moved in for a few days until their apartment is ready in Murray, it's so fun to see Tessa everyday! (Oh, yeah Rob and Jill too). Anyway we made Chicken Kebobs on the grill and had fun "sunrise juice drinks", which I failed to take a picture of. I did the cakes on Saturday: I put chocolate cake into 2 loaf pans, when they cooled I cut lengthwise slices of cake, filled the v-shaped slices with orange and white frosting....

I frosted them with chocolate icing and sprinkled with chocolate sprinkles to look a little more like dirt. I frosted over the orange and white frosting channels with the leaf tip and some flowers...

I made seed packet signs on the computer..

This is nothing special to look at really, I did add some jelly-bean rocks around the bottom, the fun part comes when slicing a piece of cake...

The flowers have roots!

The garden grows carrots! I have not moved on to all the amazing cake decorating that is done with fondant, I'm still working with old fashioned frosting. It was fun to try this. Happy Birthday Jill!

34 Years!

We had a fun staycation for our anniversary this year. We had originally planned on heading to St. George with friends, but that fizzled so we made plans for ourselves. Monday we spent at the new City Creek mall in downtown Salt Lake City, dinner was at Biaggi's at the Gateway - I love going there because they have a vast Gluten Free menu. Tuesday (our actual anniversary) we spent some time in the Salt Lake Temple (where we got married) doing sealings. Then we headed up to check out the paint job on the new Ogden store and lunch. We then had a golf lesson which lasted 2 1/2 hours - like 9 holes worth of time. My shoulder protested a little, it was pretty rigourous for me just 4 months since shoulder surgery. The evening ended at the Jazz game. To my complete surprise, Karl had arranged for the Jazz Bear to bring me flowers during the game! I didn't notice the Bear coming up the isle with the flowers, didn't really seem him until Karl said,"There is the Bear", (I was fussing with my phone in my lap)when I looked up he was right there - handing me flowers. Then he bent down for a kiss - a mascot sticking his nose in my face. He took a step away then came back and acted out a more passionate kiss -- more mascot snout. At this point Karl stood up as if to threaten him for taking liberties with his wife. It was pretty funny. THEN I got covered in silly string. I have been giddy ever since!

Notice the silly string remnants!

I would have loved a picture with the Bear but it all happened so fast and by surprise! I'm blessed to have such a great guy by my side.