Back to School

When I found out Gina and Deon were moving to Las Vegas I realized that when they did that I would be sad, and that our house would be lonely without them. I decided that I needed something to keep myself busy. Since I really like learning new things, I decided to go back to school.

At first I wanted to just take some classes to keep busy, but the more I thought of it, and with some pushing from Deon, I figured maybe I should work toward a degree. I would really like to accomplish that.

I haven't figured out what degree I would like to work toward yet. Since I was very excited to get started, I took one online class last semester, before they left, to ease into to school. I took a introductory computer class. (CIS 1A)

I liked the class a lot, so this semester I'm taking the second half, which is an intermediate computer class. I am also taking Spanish 1 again. I took it 5 years ago, loved it, and did well in it, I started Spanish 2 but didn't finish it. I don't remember much of what I learned in Spanish 1, so I am taking it over. Last night was my first class, I really like it.

Now I'm worried I'll have too much to do with homework for two classes!!

No Competition for Ace of Cakes

Years ago I made birthday cakes for all the kids in my family. They were generally character cakes determined by what the birthday boy/girl liked, and the popular cartoons of the day. I loved making them, and enjoyed how excited the kids were to see their cakes.

Our family grew and grew and over time we stopped celebrating birthdays together. I stopped making birthday cakes. In fact I never made them anymore even for my own family, if we had a cake it was because I bought one.

One of the shows I like to watch is Ace of Cakes. (not sure what channel) If you haven’t seen it, is a show about a Bakery that makes fantastic cakes. I’ve watched it so many times envying the creative talents of the cake makers on the show.

Jan has revived my career of cake maker at least as far as Owen’s birthdays are concerned. Last year Jan made Owen’s cake, Mickey Mouse’s Clubhouse, in true Ace of Cake fashion fondant and all.

This year she asked me to make Owen’s cake for his Pirate Birthday Party. Jan bought all the supplies and I came Friday night to get going on the cake. I had so much fun and it was great to surprise Owen. He really like his cake.

Although I’m definitely no competition for Ace of Cakes, I thought it turned out cute, and it was a lot of fun.

A Surprise Visitor

Last night I was laying on the floor of my living room, playing a game on my ipod touch, just killing time til the Olympics started.

I am a fan of the Olympics and I have really enjoyed watching Michael Phelps this year. He is amazing. I would love to watch him race in person. I can't imagine being the other swimmers when he is in the race!

Well like I said I was laying on the floor playing a game and I heard a noise behind me but I didn't pay too much attention because I thought it was just Ed coming in from watering the grass. All of a sudden I realized there were two little tennis shoes standing in front of me, I was so excited as I looked up and sure enough there was Eli standing in front of me, just waiting for me to notice him.

What a great Surprise!! I wasn't expecting to see them again till the middle of September. I guess they decided since scholl hadn't started yet they would come down and go to Disneyland one
more time before their passes run out.

Needless to say, just like one of Eli's favorite songs, on one of his favorite TV shows, "I'm so Happy"

Loving the backyard pool!

I had forgotten I bought Eli a little pool and water pad last summer. He was too little to use it then. Gina remembered it and got is out last weekend for Eli to play in. Here are some pictures of him.

The water was freezing and he was so cold. I brought pans of warm water out to warm it up for him. I wanted to make a jacuzzi, but Deon thought it was silly.

Eli loves to splash, he doesn't even mind getting water in his face!

The water pad has streams of water coming up, Eli thought it was a good time to get a drink.

He worked really hard at it.

In from the pool all warmed up and dressed. He was so worn out he just sat on the couch and barely moved. Good times!!!

My favorite pictures

I was looking through some files on my computer. It is amazing how much "stuff" you collect on there. Old school files, old church lessons, and talks, things I thought were interesting and I would want to save them forever!

My favorites are pictures, sometimes they are ones you forgot about. And, just like my kitchen at the moment, I really need to go through my computer and clean it up.

While I was looking I found one of my very favorite pictures, of my first two babies. Some time ago I scanned the pictures, which were not in the best condition. I made the following graphic with the pictures.

Aren't they so cute! I love it! I think in these pictures Gina was one, and Joe was two. They were 1 year and 6 days apart, the time has gone by so fast.

Ok, I had to add this picture of Eli....too....cute!