Five For Friday......sorta

Here we are again, it's Friday!!!! Fridays are typically my favorite day of the week, as I'm sure yours is as well. Friday means Paul is home for the weekend, and Sawyer and I love our time with him. However, Sawyer and I are still on vacation. I know I know, its been over 2 weeks, we are really enjoying our time here but we are really missing Paul and just being home! We have one week left of our vacation and I know it will go by much faster than we would like it to. Here are a few things we have done this past week. Sorry there are no pictures, it takes forever since I have to load them one at a time, you will all have to wait till I get back home and can load them from the entire vacation.

1) Monday was our God daughter Molly's 2nd Birthday! What a delight it was for me to be able to spend it with her. We lover her so much and hate that we only get to see her a couple times during the year. I'm so glad we were able to celebrate with her. She is such a delight to me and to her family, we are so lucky to have her in our life! We love you Molly girl!


2) I was in charge of cake for Molly's birthday. I had recently come across this blog called Our Best Bites ( if I knew how to set up a link for it I would, but I dont). There was a recipe for rainbow cupcakes. I decided to try and make those for her party. Those of you that know me, know i'm baking challenged. So this would be interesting. I bought two cake mixes just in case I messed up the first time. Guess what they were perfect and a HUGE hit with the kids. I didnt follow there recipe exactly, I just used a store bought cake mix mixed it and divided it into 5 bowls. I then died each bowl a different color. I began to layer the colors in the cupcake wrappers, and baked them according to the pkg directions. I wish I would have taken a picture, they are so easy and so fun.


3) My sister-in-law Julie had her carpets cleaned this week, so she came down with her kids, Faye and Wil and we got to spend the day with them swimming and hanging out! We were also excited when our friends The Iuli's decided to come over for swimming and dinner. They brought there sweet baby girl who is just about 3 months old over and she is just so precious. She is also the best baby ever, she never gets upset never cries, its wonderful. It's so much fun for me to get see our der friends Ryan and Rachel take on this new role of parents. We are so happy for them, and wish them the best. Ryan also made us a delicious dinner. We had shish kabaobs, grilled corn on the cob, and garlice bread. It was amazing. Thanks for the great food and fun.

4) Project Runway started this week. I am a HUGE fan of this show, as are many of our friends out here. When we lived here we would all get together for dinner and PR every Thursday night durning the season. It was so much fun to get together last night, just like old times. A few of us gathered in the living room at my in-laws house with some amazing mexican food, and enjoyed the season premiere of the shows 5th season. It's just so much more fun to watch as a group, especially with our friend Tommy who just graduated fashion design school in May. Can't wait till next week!

5) Wed night Sawyer and I headed up to a family reunion, for Paul's side of the family. It was so much fun to get to meet some of these people for the first time. I mean we've only been married 5 years ;) It was aslo fun to get to see some people we hadn't seen since we moved. I got to meet Jessica Thompson, who is my dear friend Stephanie's best friend out here, how cool is it that we are related! I can totally see why they get along so well. They are both wonderful, genuine people, i'm so blessed to know them both. It was so much fun to see Aunt Mary, Uncle Ray and Aunt Thelma, they are Nana's brothers and sisters who flew in from Kentucky, and West Virginia. It's so cool to see them all together again. I'm so glad I was here to get to be a part of it.

Well thats it, nothing super exciting this week. Next week I will be home and hopefully have pictures for you. Have a wonderful weekend!