Larissa's Sweet 16.

Here I am in the air chamber.
This was my 2nd flight.

My first flight I bounced off the wall and ground several times, so I'm not posting that one.

If Jennie posts her pics, I will steal some to add to this.

We also made another attempt at a fondant cake.
I will persevere until I can figure out how to get those wrinkles out!

When the creativity flows.....you go with it.

Terri and I have been spending some serious time with the Cake Boss lately. And we decided to take on Fondant for Rachel's Baby Shower. NOT BAD for our very first attempt.
The hardest part was laying the white fondant. You can see the ripples on the bottom. It worked for this cake, because it was supposed to a present and presents can can crinkles in the wrapping paper, but I really don't know how we are going to get that super smooth finish you see on tv.

It required alot of cutting and measuring, but in truth, was relatively easy to work with.

Later, when rereading the directions, we discovered a missing ingredient that would have fixed alot of our problems in molding the fondant. Lesson learned.

And this is what the girls did for Christmas gifts.

Plan craft boxes decorated with modge podge and clippings from magazines.

I asked them to think of that person and then think what color they were. Some of the answers were fun and surprising, most were blue for boy and pink for girl. Then they flipped through magazines and decided what each person should have. I "helped" with some of the ideas, but for the most part, they really chose what was going on each one.

Pretty sweet. And less than a dollar to a piece, even counting the glue and paint brushes we bought.

When in Rome.....eat chicken head

Here is a semi-comprehensive list of things Jeremie has eaten in China.

Chicken Head
Frozen Swallow Spit
Frog
Jelly fish
Chicken Knees
Fish eyes balls
Crab brains
Shrimp Brains
The Entire Shrimp- shell, eyeballs, antennae and all
eel
tips of pig ear
Duck tongue
Cow stomach
pig stomach
goose
chicken feet
goose feet
Scorpion
bitter melon
cubed Ostrich
purple sweet potatoe
abalone
5 new varieties of mushroom
steamed chestnuts
squid tentacles
3 varieties of Tofu, including dry tofu
Durian
fish meatballs
And McDonald's pineapple pie

Hair Cut

The shorter cut. I do it without bangs too, so I will post those to show the difference.
I have to admit I liked it better before the chop, so I will probably grow it back out to the one below. However, another part of me thinks I should cut it one more time and try something short and drastic. I mean, I don't know if I will ever be this short again, this is my chance, I kind of want to jump with both feet. But I am also chicken. So we'll see.


Wild and free


Normal



No curling iron

Small flip

Curled

Unfortunately, it took me so long to post these, I've since cut it even shorter. So I will try to get some new ones. It is hard when you have to take them yourself and be like those crazy facebook people that take pictures of themselves all the time for their profile. If you are one of those crazy facebook people- I love you and your constant photo updates make me happy-- so don't stop.

Breakfast With Santa

Sorry, it's been such a long time since I've updated. First I lost my camera when we moved somehow. And lost alot of pics that were on it. Then I got a new camera, but I still don't have internet on my laptop, so I can't download all my pics. These were emailed to me, so I got to post them. I had to post the one with my big mouth catching flies. I thought it was neato.

Aislin's Face

Day 1, 2, and 3.

These pictures don't do it justice at all. You could see the swelling and black eye from a mile away. It was encredible and jaw dropping. We stopped people in their tracks walking in the store.

She face planted into the corner of the coffee table. It swelled so fast and furious, I really thought we were going to the ER.

It's been 8 days now and there is still bruising, a bit of swelling, and there is some hard tissue under the scrape. I am a little concerned about the hard stuff because I don't want her to be disfigured or lopsided. My hope is that it will go down, dissolve, whatever.

We'll see.

My poor injured baby.

Jeremie's blog

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