Wilton Cake Decorating Class

This first lesson we decorated a clown cake. We learned the basketweave line (in pink down the side), the squiggle across the top (in yellow using a star tip), the star, the shell (the bottom border in yellow) and how to construct the body, arms and legs of a clown. It was so much fun and turned out better than I expected. Next time I'll use a thin crumb coat to ice the cake before adding the actual thick layer of icing. This will help prevent the crumbs from being distributed throughout the cake icing.

Baby Plagge's First Sonogram

Today is the day for our first sonogram. Walker has permission from work to be present at every doctor appointment, so he's taken the morning off. Hopefully by the end of the day we'll be able to show a picture of our little teddy graham.

We weren't quite sure how far along I am, but the doctor confirmed that Baby is 10 weeks old and set a different due date of December 19th. In the sonogram pictures you can see the head, body and arm nubs. We saw a strong heartbeat too.

Frisco Crime

Frisco Crime is up quite a bit from last year and we found that out the hard way this morning. I had a 6 am shift at work today so when I was going out the door at 5:30 this morning I apparently caused a thief to lose interest in nabbing my cd player from my car. They tore my console apart, looking for anything of value, rummaged through several bags, the glove compartment, etc. The face and part of the plastic securing the cd player were taken off and left in the front seat but thankfully the theif didn't get to accomplish his mission. I waited for a few minutes for the police to show up and filed a report. Unfortunately there's nothing really that can be done, but I'll be parking in the garage for sure from now on and Walker plans to install and motion censored light in the back. Good thing they didn't get the whole cd player because my Sound of Music cd was in and living without that would be unthinkable.