Happy Birthday Andrew

Andrew has been in two countries today on his birthday.  Canada in the morning and the US by afternoon.  Welcome back and I am glad I get to celebrate in person with him.

My beef with chocolate cakes.  The recipe on the blog showed a deep chocolate bundt cake with drizzled icing on top.  I baked it and it looks like a golden donut.  Then, the drizzle turned into one big clump of chocolate.  I whipped up some chocolate buttercream frosting and now it really looks like a big donut.  Fail.  Lame.  I hate blogosphere chocolate cakes.

 Decompression video gaming:

Aunt Shirley's banner still lives on and ages beautifully:

Basil Today

What to do with those strawberries growing in the front yard:

Something Swanky

Tokyo

Because I want to visit Tokyo someday:

This Beautiful Day

Blogcation

It is time for me to take a weeklong blogcation.  Please enjoy a blog a day of blogs I think you should read:

The Burning House

(what people would take with them if their house was on fire)

Cronuts

It all started in NY.  Donut x Croissant = Cronut.

The West Coast had to keep up and labeled theirs (due to Trademark): "cro-doughs", "O-Nuts", or "dosants."

I haven't met one person who thinks they are spectacular.  I think I need to do my own research and test this one out.  So began my Google search.

Called this place: "No, we don't serve them anymore."

Then this place: "Nope, we don't serve them anymore."

But this one does.  She said the line begins at 8:30am tomorrow, but they open at 7am.  If Piper gets up early we just might have to head over there and try one out.

The boys are in Vancouver, B.C. with Andrew for the weekend so I deem this a perfect bachelorette activity.

Fireworks

Happy 4th of July

Why not wear red, white, and blue on other days too...

$10.80 Top - Forever 21

I have been searching high and low for navy harem pants.  I won't spend this much but maybe you will?
Parker Devlin Pant

This would be so fun over that white top.
$15.00 - Etsy

If you bought the pants, then shell out the $150 for these pumps to go with it.
Joe's Laney Pump

This Week

I seem to be getting into a summer routine.

AM - Hit up new bakeries and other delicious food joints:

PM - Getting those dental and doctor appointments out of the way:

Did you know that NASA has a Live TV station?  Awesome!  We watched some of it this morning and it was fun to learn that the International Space Station is over Australia today: Click here!