It has been a pretty busy week. Last Wednesday, Josh drove and I rode the whole 8 hour trip to Orlando. We talked and sang and got Slurpees at 7-eleven. We had so much fun just getting there. The next day we got up SUPER early and spent the entire day at Islands of Adventure. The Hulk has got to be one of the best roller coasters I have ever ridden. The way it shoots you out of that tunnel is crazy. We rode everything we wanted to and even got to do everything in the wizarding world of harry potter (if you have seen the lines you know how big of a deal that is). I am not a harry potter fan myself but it was still neat. Dad even treated everyone to a Hard Rock Cafe dinner. Josh loved it because they had so much Beatles, Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd stuff. They even have a Lennon room at their hotel. Then the next day (my BIRTHDAY!) we went to Magic Kingdom. I have never been before so it felt like my 6th birthday instead of my 22nd. We saw Mary Poppins, the queen of hearts and the I'm late rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Cinderella, and we even got our picture taken with Woody and Jessie. The parade was awesome and the fireworks were so good. Needless to say we have lots of pictures for Josh's niece, Tesney. Saturday, we made the long drive back again. We ended up barely listening to music because we were just talking the whole time. The whole trip was so much fun. It was good to spend time with my family. It is just so great that my parents love Josh (especially my dad) and Josh loves them. Sundat we made it to church even though we were both so so tired and it was so great. Being in fellowship with other believers is just so refreshing.
Josh is moving into a new duplex like a street away from me so that will be convenient. We have been packing up his house now and it is so crazy. Boys are jusr so dirty. Its like it never occurs to them that they might want to clean the fridge every so often. So now we have a little over a week to get his house squeaky clean. Hopefully we can get it done in time. I have been making him throw away things because I refuse to let him become a hoarder :) We made a huge donation to the thrift store yesterday and I have a few more huge garbage bags full to take tomorrow. Out with the old is the moving motto this next week.
Today I decided to finally paint my armoire and I needed strong Joshua to come help me drag it outside. For his payment I decided to make him a little lunch. I made hamburgers, homemade french fries, and homemade ranch dip. For dessert I bought a stars and stripes funfetti cake. Those who know me understand my love affair with funfetti cake. I started the cake and it got me in the mood to bake. I bought the fixings for wedding cake and Dutch Oven Bread. I haven't made the bread yet but the wedding cake was THE BOMB! I kinda stole the recipe so I wasn't quite sure about eveything I wrote down but I decided to wing it. It was my first attempt at the cake and the icing but it turned out to be my new love! The icing is a homemade almond buttercream icing. It is so rich and delicious. I made it super late tonight and made claire get off the phone and kim get dressed to come out and try it. It is like a wedding cake it is so good. The cakes themselves kinda fell apart but i fixed it up pretty nice. Needless to say house 69 is overflowing with baked goods so come over and eat friends! I am going to try the Dutch Oven Bread tomorrow since Joshua bought me a dutch oven for my birthday.
I have no idea what my next little food adventure is going to be but I hope it is half as good as this wedding cake turned out to be.
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