That Takes The Cake

My sister-in-law Katie lives in Austin and loves cake decorating.  She invited me to come along to this event.  We had a blast and saw some amazingly decorated cakes.  Here are some of my favorites...

 

Yes, these are all decorated cakes, made mostly of different edible things.  Lots of them had pictures of the steps that they took in forming the different shapes and decorations.  There were different competition levels for all ages, 6 year olds to advanced adults.  They were really impressive!  TLC was also there with demonstrations from the most recent group of bakers from their "Ultimate Cake Off" show.  And we ate some delicious cupcakes :)

Day 300/600

We now have a love fern, something I've always wanted (well at least since the first time I saw 'How to Lose A Guy in Ten Days')  Thursday we celebrated our 300th day of marriage, and our 600th day of dating. 

Dave surprised me during lunch time at school with a lovely love fern and a nice card.  I promised to take great care of it and never let it die!

Fredericksburg, TX

A while back, Dave got a client from a little town called Fredericksburg, an hour outisde of San Antonio in the hill country.  When he told his bosses, they started going off about what a fun town it is, German and Swiss settled and full of bed & breakfasts.  When Dave told them that he had never been there, they told him that if he hit a certain goal they'd buy him a bed & breakfastout in Fredericksburg.  Dave called quite excited.  He said he was already gonna achieve the goal, he would've done it without the incentive, so he was gonna win us that bed & breakfast.  Well, of course David hit the goal back in October and this weekend we were finally able to find a free weekend to go. 

This was our little place, the Sunrise Chalet.  It was on a beautiful 26 acre property with a creek running through it.  It was full of Swiss decorations, it was beautiful. 

 

We had a great time exploring the property.  We found a swimming/fishing hole that had no water in it and some beautiful orange rocks to climb on.  We then found the famous lookout point.

Even though it was quite warm, I couldn't resist sitting by the nice fireplace. We spent the night out on the town, got some Mexican food, and finished with Blue Bell ice cream.  The next morning we went out walking the main street of Fredericksburg to go shopping and got a few Texas trinkets.  It was such a fun weekend, great work David!

Who would've thought...Snow Day in San Antonio!

So that last big storm that covered almost half of America... we were predicted to get the bottom tip of it.  The last snow they had here was a light dusting in 2004, so everyone was pretty excited.  The night before we were driving around and it was a slushy rain and all the cars on the road were driving incredibly slow and every single car had their flashers on, it was pretty entertaining.  We turned on the news when we got home around 11pm and over 400 accidents had been reported that evening within the city limits, we were glad to be off the streets.

Now in defense of our new hometown, it is built in the hill country.  All of the roads are pretty narrow, very windy(curvy) and hilly, and we don't have any snow plow equipment or salt.  Those don't make very good conditions for snow.

The view from our window in the morning

We turned on the news to hear that all of the freeways were shut down and also all the school districts had cancelled school. Their advice was for everyone to stay home.  That was music to our ears. We had a late breakfast, watched a movie, took a nap and just enjoyed our morning off. We had no idea being snowed in could be that fun.

We finally decided we should probably play in the snow since who knows when we'll see it again.   We attempted snow angels and snowballs, but the snow was almost all melted :(

 

We still had fun though. The previous 36 hours before the rain/snow the temperature hadn't gotten above freezing.  So underneath this thin layer of snow was ice, pure ice. We could barely walk across the street.  It was a fun adventure and a reminder of why we moved away from Utah.