The Cake of All Cakes

I am sure Mrs. Wallace will have her own post about Mini Me’s first birthday party, but I wanted to take a second and give her some props for the cake she made. She was determined to make her train cake despite all of the odds stacked against her. She didn’t have the amount of time she initially allotted for the cake, due to Mini Me’s impromptu hospital stay for an infection that zapped the PTO she planned to use to make the cake. That meant she had to make the cake the night before the party after she had spent a long day at work. With the help of her mother, sister,  and best friend she was able to not only cook all the cakes for her train, but also add all the icing and get them decorated and arranged.

Now, you may be wondering what I was doing during all of this hard work. I had been doing hard manual labor installing shelves and other things for the party all week and that night I mowed the lawn in 100+ degree weather. So when it came time to make the cake I just sat and watched and gave some nice constructive criticism to keep everyone motivated haha.

In all seriousness, it was a really great cake and a great party. I am very thankful that so many people came to celebrate Mini Me’s first birthday. If he could speak English, and not his own native language he has created, he would thank everyone individually. :)

Mother’s Day 2010

Cara decided that she wanted to go to one of the Oklahoma casinos with one of her friends as her Mother’s Day present, so she got her gift the Monday before.  So the actual Mother’s Day was very low key. We went to church that morning and then met my parents and brother for brunch.

Zoooooo!!!

A couple weekends ago we took a family trip to the zoo with some of our new friends we met in the neighborhood.  They have a precious little girl who is about 7 months older than Liam (they will actually be in the same grade when they start school, yay!!!) so we thought it would be fun to get them both out to the zoo so they could see all the animals.  As you could imagine, Liam was far less interested in the animals, but I did get him to actually look at some of the fish in the aquarium. I am already looking forward to taking back when he is a little older and actually cares about the different animals.

Liam and Mama in the wagon car by the petting zoo

Liam and Mama in front of the ape exhibit

Liam and the bronze alligator