Teds Birthday

Ted turned 33 on November 19Th. I decided to make him a red cake for this special day. He is always bragging about how good his moms was and I thought I would give it a try. Making a cake from scratch is something I haven't done, EVER! A little advise if you are thinking of trying this in the future, It takes a huge bottle of red food coloring. I red the ingredients before going to the store to make sure I had everything, I noticed the food coloring and paid no attention to the amount. When I was at the store I saw the food coloring and bought a 4 pack with 3 other colors. Thinking there was no way it could use a huge bottle. Well it did, so i filled up my measuring cup with tho coloring that I had then added water to fill it up. Made sense to me at the time.

Now to the frosting, you had to cook it! The first half you cook on the stove then let it cool and finish it off later. For some reason it never really blended together. To me it was a mess! Ian thought it tasted like hard whipped cream. I had to put it in the fridge for several hours to harden up.

Now for the Ted test.... After the first few bites, he scraped the frosting off and left most of the cake on his plate. It was a little dry. The Kids loved it, especially Ian. This cake took me over 4 hours to make, Im not sure if there will be a repeat for next year, maybe?? :)

Ashlyn and My camera

Today I went to use my camera and it was out of Memory. I don't remember using it recently and I have a 2 GB memory card! After looking thru them trying to find out what I should erase so I can take a few more pictures and I came across Ashlyns self made photo shoot! There are over a hundred photos she took of herself, smiling, making faces, she even brought in a few of her dolls and stuffed animals to take pictures with! She is one crazy girl! Who does that sort of thing? When your 4??

San Diego, Ca

For Halloween weekend we went to San Diego. The weather there was really nice. We went to the zoo and to Sea World. I had been to the zoo but not Sea World. It was a lot of fun. It was cool to see Ashlyns reaction to what she was seeing. I think her excitement wore off on all of us. Teds sis and family met us down there on friday so she went to Sea World with us.











Ashlyn and Ted had never been to the zoo before and they both had a great time. All of the animals were out which was really cool. After about 4 hours of walking around I convinced Ted to take the bus around which took us to the last few areas a lot faster. for some reason Ashlyn kept asking if the tigers were going to eat her. I told her several times tha animals are in cages, They wont hurt you. I guess she didn't believe me until she actually saw the cage.








Sandcastles are the best part of going to the beach. Well for some reason I made it my personal challenge to build a super big one. It is actually quite hard and it just looks like a huge mound of sand for a long time. so while the grown ups enjoyed the waves I continued to build, for hours my new castle. It really was fun!!