Baby Plagge's 2nd Sonogram

Here's baby. 13 weeks and 3 days old. New due date is December 16, according to measurements of the baby. If they keep moving up the date, I'll be delivering in no time!

JP home for weekend

John Paul came home this weekend and brought his girl Tracy Hernandez for us all to meet. We went out for italian food at a new place called Joe's in Forney and then bowled at Big Town Bowlanes in Mesquite. JP turns 20 in a couple of weeks and he's not going to be able to come into town again, so we celebrated early with this guitar cake. (handcrafted by yours truly)

Buttercream Icing for Wilton Class

2 cups crisco
2 lb bag of powdered sugar
2 tsp. clear almond extract
2 tsp. clear butter extract
2 tsp. clear vanilla extract

(can use creme bouquet instead of almond)

add water to extracts to make 1/2 cup of liquid total. Use kitchenaid to cream mixture for about 5 minutes. Will be the consistency of peanut butter. Keeps in airtight container for about 2 weeks.

Camping, Feeding Ducks

Pictures soon to come...I left my camera over at mom's house this weekend.

We arrived at the Vineyards Campground at Lake Grapevine Friday night around 6:30 and Walker and Tony had the tent set up by sundown. The campground facilitators deliver firewood for a nominal fee and we arranged to have some delivered to our site. The man who delivered it informed us we needed to add a few more stakes to the tent because we were under a tornado watch. We didn't have any more stakes to put in and just decided to build a fire and keep setting up camp. The weather was perfect until about 10:00 when we started seeing a lighting storm. Walker's dad called to give us updates on the weather. We weighed our options...pack up and get a hotel for the night, pack up and go home or sleep in the cars until the storm went through. Both of our vehicles were packed to the brim with camping equipment...in fact Tony barely had room to breathe on the drive there....Ken also informed us there would be two more storms the next day, one in the morning and one at dinner time. So we started packing up around 11 pm and left by 11:30. Tony stayed the night with us and Annie drove back to mom's. We met up the next day to exchange Tony and went to feed the ducks at City lake in Mesquite. Not the relaxing weekend we had all envisioned, but an adventure none the less.