Awesome Cake

For Valentines Day, I made Black Tie Mousse Cake. It is a very delicious cake that you can get at Olive Garden. I was introduced to it on my second date with my husband who was not my husband at the time and it was so utterly delicious that I lost all my fear of Olive Garden. (For those of you not in the know, I am a restaurant-phobe, going through therapy as mandated by my husband).
Anyways, in memory of the romance I made this cake. Since Black Tie Mousse Cake is a mouthful, we've just started calling it Awesome Cake because it is Awesome. One piece is enough to feed both of us because its so rich. A little on the expensive side to make (cream is not cheap) but way worth it in my opinion.

Hairdresser Meghan

Here is Meghan brushing mom's hair. She is very helpful.

Hats of Meghan

The cute thing about these hats (besides the fact that Meghan is just cute in hats) is that she puts them on herself.

You Think She Misses Her Daddy?

Meghan likes dressing up. She wears her daddy's ties too. Here she is modeling one of daddy's shirts while he is away at work.

Cold Maryland

Yes, Maryland has been rather cold recently. Its kind of a bummer because its been cold but still no snow. I will admit that having a fireplace in the house is rather nice at times though.

Meghan Munchies

Meghan has figured out how to open zippers. So she fished this little treasure out of the diaper bag. I didn't think much of the crinkling until I inspected the source.

Meghan's taken a bite out of SANTA!!!!

Thirsty Meghan

Here is Meghan enjoying some cranberry juice from a cup. Yes, cranberry juice. She has very adult tastes. She likes cranberry juice, grapefruit and dark dark chocolate.

More Cross-stitching

Here is my most recent work. This was given as a Christmas gift to Kyle's mother.

Utah: Tunnel Fun

Meghan's Utah grandparents like to have fun toys for kids to play in. Here is the play tunnels they set up for her.

Meghan's daddy thought the tunnels were fun too, but he didn't quite fit in them as well as Meghan did.

Raaar! Tunnel Monster!

Utah: Sunday at Nana's House

Here is what Sunday afternoon was like for Meghan:

Get toted by Daddy,

Get toted by Uncle Brian,

Get toted by Oompa,

Watch Daddy and Uncle Brian play Foosball,

Eat cookie,

Get Messy,

Play with toys.


And Sunday for Mom?
Play Puzzle....

Utah: Playing Pinball

Kyle's parents have a pinball machine in their house. Equal parts bright lights, loud noises and fun distraction it's entertainment value is phenomenally high. Meghan absolutely loved playing pinball with her daddy. Daddy, however, found it very difficult to win when Meghan was 'helping' him.

Utah: Babysitting

During our Utah vacation, we took the opportunity to visit more than just the Butt family. We visited the Knorrs as well. Since we were on vacation with nothing better to do, Corinna realized that we were perfect candidates to babysit Vonn while she went to the dentist. So we went and had a lot of fun too.

Meghan showed Vonn her favorite game: Spinning Chair.

Of course, there was plenty of other fun with Vonn's toys.

After her dentist visit, we had lunch and Uncle Bruce stopped by to say Hi.

Utah: Museums and Aquarium

While we were in Utah we did lots of fun stuff. We went to an art museum, a stuffed animal museum and an aquarium. The art museum didn't allow pictures because that can damage the paintings and the aquarium didn't allow pictures with the fish. But there was some fun places to crawl into and snap shots of. There was also a place you could pet some manta rays and some other weird things like sea slugs. The stuffed animal museum was fun too.

Here we are at the stuffed animal museum.

And here we are at the aquarium.

It was a tight fit getting all of us in there.