Guess What?

I have exciting news.. most of you already know...
Jerry and I are.. exepecting our second child! :)
We're super happy and excited and nervous.
Haydens not so super happy or excited. But he will be..


I found out last week. I was having really bad headaches on one side of my head. I decided to google my symptoms and I kept seeing information about it being common at the begining of pregnancies because of the hormone changes. So, before I made an appointment to go to the doctor, I bought a test and... surprise. Originally I was expecting a "+ -" to show up, when it showed up as "l l" i thought "well im not pregnant, so i must be dying of a brain tumor". But as I went to throw the box away, I noticed that the test, being the cheapest generic brand available, showed positive results as "l l" and negative results as " l ". So, of course, my eyes bulged out of my head and I had to call jerry. After sending him a picture of the test and spending an hour assuring him that no, I was not joking, he finally believed me.

I am so excited. Ive had baby fever for a while and, well, im just super happy.
Hayden keeps saying he wants a "baby butter" Jerry wants a girl. I dont have a preference.

How to make a Moon Cake

No.. this isnt a pretty star and moon cake. First youll need two 8'' round cakes.

Second trim the circles. Use the cake scraps to add more.. volume to the buttcheeks.

"Dirty ice" the cakes. It doesnt have to be pretty, the sole purpose of dirty icing cakes it to trap all the crumbs. Once you finish dirty icing, place cake in a freezer for five-ten minutes. The longer the better.

While the cake is in the freezer, start mixing your icings. When finished, pull cake out of the freezer. with a CLEAN spatula gently apply the skin-color icing tothe cakes. If the white icing starts pulling up, clean off your spatula with water. once you got it all covered, get a cup of water. Dip the spatula in the water, tap off any excess water, and lightly graze the top of the cake. The damp spatula wont stick to the icing and this will allow you to get rid of any ugly lines.

outline the face and arms.

Start filling in all the spaces..add little details as you go along..

Tadaaahhhhh..I made this cake for my friends birthday from work. I thought it was something different than a regular birthday cake.

Just found this picture

Cute, no?

Park

We went to a new park here in town. It opened maybe six months ago and Ive never thought to even go to it since its in.. well.. the not so nice part of town. But I never see any kids on it when i drive by and today was so pretty that I just decided to try it out. I loved it! I love how its pretty isolated and not busy. Plus theres a neat disc golf course that surrounds it. Im thinking the next location for Hayden's birthday party next year? Theres really pretty picnic tables under trees and a little stream that runs through on one side that hayden had fun looking in to. The playground its self is pretty small.. just a set of swings, toddler playscape, and a small playscape with a bunch of slides. But hayden can do all of it and i dont have to hover around him too much.

Hayden loved the biggest slide. He would go so fast, i was nervous. I kept imagining him flying off the side of it and mehaving to dive to break his fall.

Halloween 2010

Im not a big fan of Halloween. But each year I, for some reason, decide to grab a costume at the last minute to take him to a party/church carnival. This year was the same thing. I waited until the Saturday before halloween to get him his costume. Not a bright idea. Everything Walmart had was way too small for him. I asked him what he wanted to be and he kept saying "baby lion". So.. I decided to make his costume this year! I got a brown hoodie from walmart and brown sweatpants for about $10. Then I got 1/2 yard of light brown, dark brown, and a yellowish brown fabric for the mane for $5. One dollar more for a cheap sewing kit and voila. I was able to make hayden a cute costume! I looped the fabric to make his mane. The hoodie had logos on the front and side, so I made "patches" to cover them. I didnt get a picture of the finished patchwork lion, but the ones i got when i finished the hood came out cute! And all for only $16 dollars and an hour of my time. The tail was my favorite. I had light wire left over from a cake I had made and I sewed it between to pieces of felt so that I could keep the tail elevated and not let it just hang there lifeless. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. We took hayden to the First BAptist Church for a Halloween "carnival" they were doing. Basically they just had a bunch of booths for kids to play games to earn money.