Birthday cookies

The cookies have been delivered, so here are the rest of the pictures! I made these for two different birthday parties. The party hat, dragon flies, and ice cream cones are for a little girl named Ava that is turning 5 and is having a fun summer birthday party. The moose and deer are for a little baby named Lucas that is having his first birthday party! The theme is hunting and camo, so his mom found these cutters and asked me to do them. The moose look pretty innocent to be hunting, huh!!!! I really hope that both of these parties enjoy the cookies, because I had such a great time making them.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for.....

We have had some great weekends the past few weeks. Unusual for us, they were actually kind of calm and unplanned. After a pretty busy summer (which we LOVED), it was nice to just relax and spend time together. We have made some pretty tasty dinners which I'll have to share sometime (our go-to and pretty high on the favorites list - homemade pizza, ribs, almond crusted chicken strip, and just about anything else we can find!), watched some Olympics (ok, probably more than some), had some cookouts, played some tennis, worked in the yard, and even shopped for the big NYC trip! It hasn't been all play though b/c I have also had some "work". I have been very busy making cookies, 5 dozen to be exact last weekend (for an amateur like me, that's a lot)! Here is just a preview though; I will show more once they have been delivered tomorrow...lets just say I had a blast! This weekend - cookies for a Fabulous and Forty birthday party (oh the ideas are swarming)!

NOTE: Please notice the difference in this picture and the ones you are used to seeing on this blog; that's right, I found a professional photographer. If only he didn't live in Austin.

The Olympics are here!

Please forgive me for my blog hiatus I decided to take! I guess I just haven't felt we have had many blog-worthy events happen lately!!! We did have a great weekend this weekend though. Nothing exciting really; just being able to be home with very few things pre-planned and spend time together is my idea of a great weekend. It was basically filled with Olympic watching, yard work, a church party, and more Olympic watching!!! We watched it all...the opening ceremonies (which were amazing!), volleyball, sand volleyball, swimming, diving, gymnastics, biking, rowing, and basketball just to name a few! I hate watching that much tv, but I just can't pull myself away. I love the competition, and watching the world's greatest athletes complete. The best of the best. I also love learning about the competitors and their stories. I have caught myself on the edge of my chair many times already. Usually when Michael Phelps is racing! Did anyone watch the relay last night around 11:00? One word....AMAZING!! Totally worth staying up for! That will teach the French to talk trash to the greatest swimmer EVER! We also highly enjoyed our mini Olympic party on Sunday afternoon after church. Since the USA men's basketball team played China during church, we had some people over afterwards to eat some pizza and watch the game. We were only part of the billions of people that tuned it; great game! We felt like we were watching the Globetrotters at a few points with all the dunking by our team!

Anyways, I am not looking forward to staying up late every night glued to the tv,but I am excited for some more great competition!

I just love the fact the President Bush has been at so many competitions. Did anyone see him warming up with Walsh on the sand volleyball courts? What other President would do that!!