Friday, February 18, 2011

Keeping busy

Here are some things I've been working on lately (since we moved here for some of them):



Cross-stitch for my sister Calista's new baby Tessa (she's a real cutie, look at these pictures!) It's 11x14 finished size. This is what I do when I watch TV, to feel like I"m still doing something 'productive'. That way I feel less guilty watching things like football, American Idol, 4 seasons of Big Bang Theory... and so on.


Here's Rachel's Birthday cake (sorry it's not rotated... my bad!) She told me she wanted the castle pink, the roofs yellow, and the windows and doors blue. So that's what she got... more or less.

I included this picture because I took it while I was talking to my mom and grandma on the phone while I was doing it. I said it looked funny only partially done and they said to take a picture for them to see, so I did. I think the finished product is more fun (and more busy so you don't notice the individual crazy parts of my frosting. Someday I will take those Wilton classes... just not yet.)
And here's the cake I did for Valentine's Day. Not too fancy, but very chocolatey and delicious! Now I just need to get my hiney moving to work off all that TV time and cake!

Joe's Graduation

So, I know I'm way behind on my blogging. But at least I acknowledge the fact, right? Anyway, today I will become slightly less behind.

Just before Christmas we took a nice (read: LONG) drive back to Charlotte, NC for Joe's graduation. We stayed with some of our totally awesome friends and then went to Indiana for Christmas with Joe's family. Here are some pictures from graduation. If I can find the ones Kitara took for me I'll put them up too, since they're a lot better than these. (I've been leaving the CD out for months so I could do this post, but today I can't find them anywhere!


Me and Rachel trying to be happy together

Thank goodness for Grandma and Grandpa Allen, or we would NEVER have made it through the ceremony! (the large bag of gummy bears helped too of course...)



Joe walking to get his hood and diploma. The guy behind him is Dr. Rogelberg, his adviser who did the 'hooding' (and made him write over 20 drafts of his dissertation...).