Dogs, dogs, dogs

Chewy loves hanging out with Kiki and Duncan this week. As you can see, the little ones have more energy than Chewy.

I love that they lined up like this.

Chewy

Duncan

Kiki

Cake Class, Course 1, Lesson 4

Cake Class, Course 1, Lesson 3

For our third class, we could bring in whatever we wanted: cake, cupcakes, cookies, nothing but waxed paper. I decided to do red velvet cupcakes and I had enough batter leftover to do a loaf cake. I didn't feel like making a lot of colors, so I reused the ones from my last cake and made purple icing. It turns out I was able to make a lot of different designs and used everything we learned in class today! I need to work on making straight and parallel lines. I think i might mark the cake next time to guide me. One more class to go and then Course 2!

I am signing up for Cake Decorating Course 2 at the JoAnn's at Polaris on Monday nights if you are interested in joining me (you know who you are). The same teacher for my class is doing the course 2 class and I think she's great. It begins on April 5th and runs through April 26, Mondays 6:30-8:30pm.

PA Trip

We stopped in Hershey on the way to a friend's house this weekend. We did a chocolate tasting, saw a 3D movie, rode a ride telling us the history of Hershey's, and took a trolley tour of the town. It was a lot more fun than we expected.

Thanks go out to Bryan for the pictures!

Cake Class, Course 1, Lesson 2

Update: I decorated the cake. Since St. Patrick's Day is Wednesday, I decided to do an Irish theme on my first cake. My handwriting is terrible - sorry.

So I spent 3 hours this evening doing my homework for my cake decorating class. Chewy hung out on the couch the entire time. I had to take a picture. It cracks me up that he sleeps on his back.

I made 6 cups of icing to ice the 8" round cake that we will decorate in class on Monday. I then had to make an additional 6 cups for the icing that will be used to decorate it on Monday.

I'll post a picture of the completely decorated cake on Monday night, after class. Stay Tuned.
Also, I updated the cheese post on the blog to include pictures of the cheddar now that it is ready to eat, so check that out!

Crazy new shoes

Keith has been talking about these shoes for a long time now. I decided that this would be a great purchase to get me back into running. I bought myself some Vibram Five Fingers shoes. They are suppose to be as close to being barefoot as possible. So far, I have found they are difficult to put on. Each toe must fit into it's designated pocket. Once they are on, they are comfortable. I haven't run in them yet. I'll let you know when I do.
Also, this picture shows off the new bookcases in the living room.