Alexa is here!

Life is soo hectic!! I cannot believe that today is Halloween... Ugh tommorrow is November 1st.. which would of been my sisters due date but Alexa Josephine was born, October 29th at 5:57pm.. 8lb 11oz...... Andrea and Steve brought her home today from the hospital dressed up in her pumpkin outfit that I bought her.... She looked sooo adorable, I cannot wait to see her later in her flower costume I bought her...

Already had enough of Auntie Marie's camera...

Ready to go home......

practicing

This morning Andrea invited us over fro dinner, so I told her I would bring dessert,, I wanted to play with a cake, so i got out my pans and made the basic cakes then was torn on how to decorate.. I found a new recipe for frosting and it is soo easy and tastes just like the bakery.. so i decided to tint it pink, then decided i wanted to try making it chocolate flavored so that is the middle layer.. i did not know what to put on top, then i thought of these flowers and butterfly i have had and it just came together... I was going to make a butterfly shaped top layer for andreas baby shower a mos from today, but after this i am going to get some silk butterflies to make it easier.. the only thing i learned was to make the cake a day ahead, easier to frost!

28 weeks!!!

I cannot believe Andrea is 28 weeks pregnant... It seems like just yesterday when she called and said "Hi Auntie"... wow 12 weeks left... I cannot wait to spoil Alexa!

lots going on!

This past Sunday I had off so we had to do something!! I heard about the potatoe festival in North Branford so we decided to check it out... We had baked potatoes with all kinds of fixins.. homemade donuts and all kinds of old fashioned soda... mmmmm.. Chantal's friend matt went with us and they went on a couple of rides!

here are the baby shower invitations i have been working on... I pulled my back out a couple of days ago so i sat on the couch watching old 90210 episodes and finished 81 of these...

Pam and I have hung out alot at "2 foot lake" which is what we nicknamed her pool....lol

here is andrea with the cake i baked for her birthday.. i love cake decorating

Andrea birthday was actually on thursday, She had 2 cakes that day becuase her and steve could not decide on a cake.....lol So today she is having a little picnic at her house so i told her i would bring the cake... I got to use my new pans that she bought me for my birthday.. The flip flops were made by cutting the two foot shapes out of a circle pan.. the flowers were ones i had made out of coffee filters, and dyed them using kool aid. so they are safe to be on the cake..