My Candid Moments

I have always made my son’s birthday cakes, and they have always had a theme.  Some years it’s a lot of work doing the stars and making Thomas or Lightning McQueen come to life others it’s been easy. The year he wanted a Nemo cake was one of those easy years.  That year I made  fish bowl, which was easy but impressive.  This year he wanted a mountain biking cake.  I thought this will be a snap, the instructions were easy and it was mostly just layering cakes and frosting them.  I was wrong., I was just plain wrong.  The first cake looked good (it’s the one on the right) but it fell flat by the next morning. I prefer to think of it as it experienced an earthquake or there was a mud slide.

So like every good Mom I went and I made ANOTHER cake, this one shorter and much more sturdy.  That is the cake he is blowing candles out on — the lessons I learned are you can never have too many boxes of cake mix (LOL) and that you need wooden dowels when building a mountain of chocolate cake.

Where is all the time going??

Another one of my baby planners is graduating, he turned one two weeks ago.  I remember all to well my  first visit with Mr. N.  He  REFUSED to sleep.  He was a go getter right from the start. He made me work for every shot!

Here he is today — still an energetic little boy!

I lost my first few posts of the new blog along with all the pages I had created. Thankfully, Kylie Clark of Blog Art came to my rescue and reloaded the site!  So now I sit with my first post on the blog again.  This time I am posting photos of my daughter who just turned ONE!  I am so excited that she’s getting bigger, but yet sad that babyhood is definitely behind us as she is chasing her big brother at full speed.  This last photo I made to look like a photo I have of me at the same age — I can’t wait to compare the two and see how much she does or does not look like me!