Coincidence?

A couple weeks ago I left the house and I was pretty sure that Charlie was in the house. He likes to sneak into the garage and when I am carrying Jake, my purse, and any other multiple things he has a pretty good chance at getting out. I decided not to worry about it and I drove to Jake's daycare. When I was leaving I saw a cat just like Charlie hiding in the bushes and for a second I thought it was Charlie. Then as I drove to work I saw another cat that looked just like Charlie on the side of the road (no, not roadkill). It was so odd that the morning I thought he may have snuck out I saw two cats that looked just like him. Fortunately he was safe at home when I got back from work.

Today while driving I saw a silver Toyota Rav4 just like ours and it had the same three letters on their license plate that we have: PFN. I think that must be pretty rare to see the same model and color car with such a similar license plate.

Hiny Hiders

A few years ago, while in the restroom at a Brewer's game, I was sitting down, doing my thing and I noticed the latch on the stall door had a picture as seen above and the name Hiny Hider on it, I just giggled. I thought it was such a clever name for a small and usually unnoticed piece of hardware. I always look for the Hiny Hider when I go to the restroom at Brewer games now. I also recently saw the it at the restroom while we were camping. It is just so odd to find humor in the bathroom (at least the kind that doesn't include an odor or noise coming from the stall next to you). So, next time you are at a Brewer's game or in any restroom facility look out for the Hiny Hider!

Camping Labor Day 2009

Jamie and I took Jake on his first camping trip this weekend. Jamie and I have gone camping together with friends and family many times, but never by ourselves, so we thought we would go just the three of us. The weekend was beautiful, but it was a little cold at night. We had Jake all bundled up in a winter hat and mittens.



Mom and Dad stopped by to see us. They enjoyed the fire, food and of course Jake.




One test we had was trying to fit everything in the new Rav4. I used to be able to fit everything in my Nissan, but we seem to accumulate more and more every year. I really need to go through everything soon and make sure we only have what we really need. We got it all to fit in the car, but the wood Jamie picked up at work had to go on the roof. We did seem to have a lot more room when we left this morning though.

Mom's Birthday

Okay, I am way late on this, but Mom's birthday was last week Monday. We went to Mom and Dad's on Saturday and celebrated with Mike, Chris, Nic, Sara and Julia. I made Mom her birthday cake. She said she wanted lots of chocolate so I found a yummy chocolate buttercream recipe on allrecipes.com and I put it on a devils food cake.

Happy Birthday Mom! You look fabulous!

Operation Baking GALS

Operation Baking GALS (Give A Little Support) is a website where you sign up to bake cookies for the troops overseas. I personally don't know anyone that serves in the military, but since I like to bake I thought I would send something over. I signed up over Christmas last year and I received this e-mail on Christmas day:

Shelly-

I just got your Christmas care package. Thank you so much! It's great to get a taste of home out here. I haven't had anything homemade in far too long, much less delicious cookies. I can't believe they made it here in this good of condition. All that packing works very well. I work in our company command post, so I've been sharing the wealth with all of our Soldiers who come to get their mail. They love them, too. The brownies with the peanut butter in the middle were a big hit. Have a great holiday season!

SPC Brett Dibbern
Camp Bucca, Iraq

It was so uplifting to get a message like that on Christmas day. I sent more cookies in April and I received a similar message. I just signed up again and I will be shipping cookies in early September. If anyone would like to add to my shipment I will gladly send them along. They also love candy, gum, crackers, beef jerky, granola, trail mix, etc.

Hello?

Well, it's been a long time since my last post. My computer at home keeps losing its internet connection so it is hard to post a message. So what's been happening since my last post? I took Jake to the State Fair where he had a taste of his first cream puff. No, I did not try the chocolate covered bacon. We saw the pig races and I had a Saz's sampler. I love going there mostly for the people watching.

Last week Jamie, Jake and I spent the week with Jamie's family out at Booth Lake in East Troy. We swam the first part of the week, but later in the week the water was just too cold. We fished, but the fish were not biting. It was a nice relaxing week, but it was different having Jake there all day every day. Vacationing with a baby is just not the same and I guess we will just have to get used to that.

I visited with Becky on Saturday at her corn roast where there was a lot of great food and corn! I took Jake to see Mike and Chris on Sunday where Mike was hooked up to his machine for his knee exercises. So, nothing too exciting, but I will try to get online more often.

More Cakes

I finally have time to show you the last cake from my decorating class. We had to do roses. I am not very good at them but overall it came out better than I expected.




Then for Jake's baptism I made him a cake as well. Most of you have seen it, but for those that weren't able to make it to the baptism, here it is:



I'm not sure when I will take the next class. That one has more flowers and teaches the basketweave technique.