Wow, so far I have sucked at this blog thing! Not TOO much has happened
in the past few months; but below is a summary, starting in early April.
A friend of mine at work just recently had her baby girl! Back in April she invited me to her baby shower, unfortunately I couldn't make it, so I had to make her an AWESOME gift! I found this idea on Pinterest of course. Baby onesie cupcakes!!
The cupcake part is a receiving blanket which is rolled around the onesie that is the frosting! The whole thing is rubberbanded and placed into a coffee filter for the wrapper and tied with a ribbon.
I have to say, they turned out even cuter than I thought! Then I put all 4 of them into a bakers box and tied it up cute with a ribbon!
Here's the best part, my preggers friend had been told she couldn't eat any more sugar for the rest of her pregnancy (this is not the best part yet), so she was pretty bummed about that. So when I told her I had "baked her some cupcakes" as her gift, the look on her face was priceless!!
She loved them!! AND they are completely sugar-free :)
Tried to spend one Saturday in organization mode, but Clyde had other ideas. I went out and bought some organizing things for my pantry, well Clyde decided they worked out much better as a new bed for him! That little bugger! I did eventually put the basket to use, but the metal shelf under it (I am somewhat ashamed to say) still sits on our kitchen table and is used as Clyde's perch.
This picture didn't turn out that great, but it was my father-in-law's birthday, so we took him and my mother-in-law to a Brewer game! I called ahead to have his name listed on the birthday list during the game; on the right, about 7 up from the bottom: Mark Mad Dog Priewe!! He loved it!
Then, the next day was SKYDIVING!!!! I am sorry to say there are no actual pictures of us in the sky :( You could only pay over $100 and have an entire video taken of the whole thing, not just one picture. So unfortunately none of us did that. This is 3 of us in "class" beforehand. The teacher would tell us things like "if you don't do this, you'll die" and I would bust out laughing!! A little nervous maybe!!
Here is a before picture of the 5 that jumped. Gotta love the color coordination and Rick's jumpsuit!!!
Our plane.
If you look really, REALLY closely in the next 2 pics, you can see TINY dots in the sky, those are us!! Dano was taking these from the ground.
We all made it and landed safely!
My friend, Kev, however, did not fare so well. He is the one on the far right. He definitely looked green and puked a bunch of times once we got down! Poor Kev!
Another Brewers Game; awesome seats, courtesy of my brother's work!
Another friend had a baby, a boy this time. So I had to "bake" some more cupcakes!
Terrible, distant flash, camera picture; but Kev's wedding in early May.
One more for good measure of the little boo boo, looking very leggy.
And finally! Our masterpiece! When Dano moved into the house, there was a giant tree here threatening both our roof and our neighbor's roof. So he had it taken out and then had the stump ground down. We were left with still chunks of stump and a giant dirt patch. So we decided to put in a little planter rather than trying to grow grass.
It turned out pretty awesome, but MAN was it a lot of work!!! Dan was literally AXING stump remains out of the ground to get the stones to lay straight! Lots of trips to the hardware store, a long day at the garden center and lots of blood sweat and tears (quite literally). But it's beautiful AND our plants are still living!!
Well that's it for now, that is maybe half of what our last few months were really like, but you get the gist. More to come soon!
