Today, Thursday, May 7th, 2009

We must give all the credit to the makers of chocolate milk for the above video....

Today I had a field trip to a farm in the area. I was able to bring Bodie, too. We both had a lot of fun. It didn't rain until we were on our way home. We saw miniature horses, and pigs, and horses, and cows, and chickens, and turkeys, and bunnies, and goats, and sheep, and llamas, and peacocks. I could go on, but you get the idea. When we got there, first thing was a hayride all around the farm. We saw a marsh and bird houses and bat houses and fields that had just been plowed. (What, you wanna see, too?..... Mommy forgot the camera.)

Had to stop for milk on the way home and for a special treat mommy got a little bottle of the chocolate kind, too. We had chocolate milk for lunch which is why we were acting so goofy in the above video. (I get REALLY weird on any kind of sugar. You don't even want to imagine me after a little glass of "coca-coca classic").

The Cake

While we were baking the cake Bodie took a few naps and played with Noel and Aunt Teresa and watched Daddy mow. But he got tired of doing that, so Grandma Pat strapped him to her back while she made her frosting.


Here is the bottom of the cake. We placed it on a board with minty green polka dotted foil (Noel's fave color) topped with a mirror. It was a white cake with white frosting all the way around and then finished off with pink frosting on top. We added some pearls for accessories.


This is the middle layer. It was a funfetti cake. Don't EVER use a funfetti cake if you are trying to stack. It isn't sturdy enough. We had to add several toothpicks and a lot of prayers that it would hold up and not crumble over night. We chose Noel's favorite color for the middle layer. Then we embellished with green dots down the sides as well.


The top layer was also funfetti. It held together better because it was smaller and didn't have to hold anything else up. Pearls were added to this one as well.


Here is the whole finished cake as up close as I could get with out cutting one of the layers out of the picture.

This cake took us 12 hours from start to finish and when we were done, I wanted to cry a little because it was PERFECT and I was so tired. THANKS GRANDMA PAT FOR YOUR HELP!

Someone's Turning 4!!!

I had a Fancy Nancy birthday party this weekend. Almost everyone who came was dressed all fancy with lots of accessories and everything. Before this picture was taken, Bodie even had a suit and tie on. He wanted to play outside so we changed him. Mailey and her sister Gabby were able to make the drive down for the soiree (fancy word for party) which made it even more special. Papas and Uncles had suits and ties and very nice outfits on. Grandmas and Aunts had fancy skirts, dresses and they were very be-dazzling.


This was my gorgeous Fancy Nancy outfit that I wore to my party. It has flowers, wings, and lots of jewels on it.


Here's a pic of me and my BFF, Mailey. We were screaming FANCY NANCY!!!! Mailey had the same fancy slippers on that I got for a gift. Now our feet can alway match.


Here's a picture of the fancy cake that Mommy and Grandma Pat made and decorated. Mommy will put some more pictures of the cake in the next post. (It deserves it's own post.)


Here is the Fancy Nancy doll that Mommy and Daddy gave me. Other people got together to give me several outfits for her to wear and those boxes stacked up behind me were made especially for me to keep all of my Fancy Nancy things in. I also recieved some Fancy Nancy things for me to wear.

The day after my party I was heard saying over and over again, "I had the BEST birthday party ever!" Thank you to everyone who was able to make it and for being good sports about dressing up. It made my day so special.

Oh, and if anyone reading this has pictures of some of the guests all dressed up, could you email them to my mommy so she can add them to our collection of photos please? Thank you.