Fourteen and counting…

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Fourteen came a knocking this week. It’s one of the lesser exciting birthdays for you are already a teenager and can get into PG-13 movies, but the next two birthdays are just waiting time until you get to drive. But all birthdays should be celebrated of course (though some disagree…but I prefer it to the alternative). Their actual birthday was on a school night and so homework and regular activities took over so we decided to wait until this weekend to celebrate it in a proper way. We went to a place where they pour your food onto a table and you beat it with a mallet. While some other places would have been better food (the food was good though), we were going more for the experience…which we certainly had. Then we came home to this beauty. I actually saw the cake years ago with a Christmas Kit Kat Cake (just red and green M & M’s) at someone’s holiday party. I saw it again on Pinterest and decided to give it a go. You can use any cake recipe you like but I HIGHLY … [Read more...]

Forget the pool, dive into this…

I spent my morning having brunch with a friend who moved to Portland. After brunch we swung by and said hi to our mutual friend who just had a baby less than two months ago (too adorable…nothing like a sweet sleeping baby in your arms). We were chatting along and just talking about things. We were talking about where I live now and I confessed that was not my original choice. I had actually planned on moving back to my old apartments before we moved to the house. Those apartments had gas appliances and were walking distance to a Town Center that had a great market and fun things to do. But for reasons we don’t need to go into I moved to the city I live in now as a favor and must say that I love living in it. It’s by the water (though my apartment is not) and though it doesn’t have a cute town center things are close enough by that everything is there. But while we were talking about my old apartments both my friends chimed in that I could move back and hang out with the … [Read more...]

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