Miss Him

Came across these pictures the other day {Please excuse how horrid I look in them}

I still miss my pretty kitty......

Sometimes when I'm at my parents I expect to be able to walk into the garage and find him lounging around or rolling around on the driveway.

I wish our pets could live as long as we do.....

I miss brushing his fur and cuddling him....

I miss my pretty kitty.....

Boundit

A few months ago my moms side of the family was over at my parents house for a get together. My cousin Kandi was there with her cute little boy Jayden.
Jayden loved to look at my brother's dog, Bandit {whom Jayden called "Boundit"} but at first didn't want to get to close to him. As the afternoon went on his bravery increased.... mostly because he fed him TONS of Milkbones!

At one point we were all sitting in the basement and my sister came in and said that she didn't do it and we needed to come outside and see something. This is what we came out to:

Jayden had lovingly picked my moms flowers to feed to "Boundit", he's a strong little guy and was able to pull them up bulb, roots and all!!

It was so hilarious!! He kept telling "Boundit" to eat them, that they were for him.... He was so confused as to why "Boundit" wasn't as happy with the flowers as he was with the Milkbones!!!

Love that silly little boy and that cute puppy dog!!

A Piece of Cake

I've always wanted to take a cake decorating class, so when my cousin Michelle asked if I would be interested in taking one last March my answer was heck yes!! I had so much fun going to class every Wednesday night with Michelle and her sister in law Jen!

Week 1- We worked on sugar cookies, using some basic tips. I learned how to prepare a piping bag and how to make good decorating frosting!

Week 2- We learned how to cut our cakes and fill them. The final product was my favorite of the whole class.... meet Frederico the fish!

Week 3- This week we worked on cupcakes! I dont have a round cupcake pan so mine were square!!

Week 4- Graduation week!! And our final cakes! We learned how to make ribbon roses which was MUCH harder than I thought!! I had so many mishaps with this cake!! I had originally planned on making it a four layered cake but I couldnt get the first cake out of the pan! I bumped the cake a lot as I was making it too which didnt help frosting!! And I was awful at the roses!! But it was still fun and I would love to take class two!

After the class was over, as we were cleaning everything up, I noticed that my cake {which remember, I had already had SO many troubles with} started to bubble up and implode!! Jeez!! What a crazy cake this turned out to be!!

The graduates!! I had so much fun with these ladies!! Especially our last two weeks of class when we went to Applebee's after class!! I would definitely do it again!!

Quote Wall Monday

Considering A BB gun

I am a light sleeper.....
Like, ridiculously light......

A lot of times I lay in bed at night
listening to all the sounds of the house.
The creaking.....
The dripping.....
The tapping......

It's awful being a light sleeper.
And I'm sure the people around me
don't think it's so awesome either!

I know there are somethings I just
cant control.
Like snoring......
Or blenders.....
Or back firing cars......
I have to remind myself not to get
frustrated with the sounds I cant control.

But lately there is one sound that is
causing me a great deal of irritation.....
One that has me wanting to pull my
hair out at 5 am.....

The sounds is coming from this.....

Yes.....
This STUPID bird sits outside
my window and "coos" almost
EVERY.SINGLE.MORNING!!

I Googled it....
The dumb thing is a mourning dove....
You should look it up on YouTube......
And now imagine that sound
at 4 am when you are trying to sleep....

I wondered if one of those fake plastic
owls would keep it away......
But then I read that these doves
are only afraid of birds of prey.
Where would one buy a plastic
peregrine falcon?

I hate that bird......
HATE it.....
I want to throw rocks at it and knock
it right off that power line......
Or shoot it with a BB gun......
Usually I'm not a violent person.
But I think the sleep deprivation
is setting in!

***I am happy to report that I no longer live near this awful bird!! But I have built up a permanent hatred for these glorified pigeons!! 

Quote Wall Monday

Book 20

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue- Candor {the honest}, Abnegation {the selfless}, Dauntless {the brace}, Amity {the peaceful}, and Erudite {the intelligent}. On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is- She cant have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are- and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned in can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves... or might destroy her.

I'm sure you've heard of this book!! There has been tons of hype about it. I've heard a few people say they think it is the next Hunger Games. I don't know if I would go quite that far, but I did really like this book! But, with that being said, if you were a Hunger Games fan, you will really like this book too {I liked it A LOT better than The Maze Runner series which has also been compared to The Hunger Games} It was somewhat slow in the beginning.....But novels like this sometimes are because you have to set up the rules of a new society. 

The next book in the series is out, but I'm not sure if I want to read it just yet. I'm actually really excited to see where this story goes but..... the third book doesn't come out until sometime next year and rumor has it that Insurgent ends in a huge cliff hanger and I don't think I can handle it! So, I think I'm going to save that one for my fall/winter reading list!!