Skip's Favorite Cake

I wanted to link to Skip's first Little Mermaid cake in the last post and after searching realized I had never actually posted a picture of it. Skip made this cake for my niece's 6th birthday and it is his favorite cake. I agree.

It is so tall that it did not fit in the back of our hybrid SUV fully assembled. The only part of the cake Skip didn't make from scratch are the little pearls in the treasure chest on the middle layer.

Happy Anniversary!

Today is my Mom and Stepdad's 27th (?) wedding anniversary! Congrats!

The party!

Yesterday's Birthday party for my 3 year old nephew was a lot of fun. Of course he's a 3 year old so the graciousness of receiving presents wasn't quite there but eh, he's 3. The adults had a lot of fun playing the Nintendo Wii and I found that my bowling curve is as good as ever! Here is some footage of the cake cutting. My Mom asked to make sure I took footage of Skip and myself. Skip is cutting the cake and if you look really closely you can see me wave to the camera.

The cake!

Here is the cake Skippy made for my nephew's 3rd birthday. In the next few weeks he's making a camouflage cake and a Little Mermaid cake with (hopefully) blown sugar bubbles and everything!

It's all just so exciting...

So I'm 37 years old and I still like video games. A lot. Granted not as much as I used to, but certain kinds are still a lot of fun. This week brings two new systems and a necessary accessory.

The Playstation 3 doesn't interest me in the slightest. I don't know why but I have always had a bias against Sony in the games market. Never had a Sony console, never wanted one. I did get to play a racing game on Playstation 3 at Target and it was actually quite amazing. But no thanks.

The Wii, on the other hand, has me much more excited than it really should, considering my age Skip and I finally got to play ExciteTruck last weekend (fun, but not enough depth to buy). Yesterday I was in a mall that had a huge kiosk with five different systems for use. Four were devoted to different Wii Sports games (it comes free with the system, Tennis, Boxing, Bowling, Baseball) and the last one was for the new Legend of Zelda game. Now I have never played a Zelda game ever but I can't wait to have this one. It used the Wiimote and the numchuck and was just so easy to pick up and play. I played more than 10 games of tennis. Tennis is amazing fun and I can't wait to start refining my shots so they go exactly where I want. I was lucky enough to get a preorder in with Amazon (I'm not crazy enough to wait in these long lines) but god only knows when Amazon will actually ship.

So the necessary accessory is the new Microsoft HD-Drive for XBOX 360. I wish the Wii just came with DVD playback (it will, but not until late 2007). Why do you need that, you ask? Well I only have two component slots on my TV and they are currently used by the XBOX 360 and the DVD Player. The HD-Drive hooked up to the 360 will free up a component slot for the Wii. Boring but true.

In other news, my Mom is coming for a 10 day visit tomorrow. How fun!

Emmit Smith won Dancing With The Stars. I don't watch it but my Mom loves it. I don't understand how Mario I've-Never-Had-Any-Dance-Training-Even-Though-I-Danced-Professionally-On-Kids-Incorporated Lopez wasn't disqualified. More power to them and thanks to Tucker Carlson for perpetuating the stereotype that Republicans have a stick where they shouldn't and can't dance to save their life. Oh, and who was the Republican a-hole that sent out a HUGE mailing to his support base telling people to vote for Sara Evans because she represented his kind of values. So much for it being about how you dance.

Kylie Minogue is back performing after her breast cancer fight. Please, please, please come to America to perform.