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Making Amy's Birthday Cake

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Today was Amy's 28th birthday, so I baked her a cake, as I usually do when its someone's b-day. I wanted to make something new, so I decided on a Pineapple Upside-down Cake. I was pretty busy at work today, so I was in a bit of a hurry while baking it. Not only did I only buy one can of sliced pineapple instead of two when I was at the store, but when I was making the cake I totally forgot to add the crushed pineapple to the bottom layer, but it wasn't really a problem.

When I was placing the sliced pineapple for the top layer, I cut and arranged them to say "28", but after it was done you couldn't really tell without looking very closely. Oh well, it still tasted delicious and it was nice to have a cake that wasn't slathered in frosting for once.

Filed under // amy food

Cary, NC

Posted June 14, 2010

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Strawberry Pickin'

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The weather was nice today, so we went to the farm just down the road to pick strawberries. Actually, Amy did all of the picking while I chased Dillan around, and Cameron wandered through the strawberry field and checked out the old farm equipment.

We ended up with about 5 pounds of fresh, delicious strawberries which we used to make strawberry shortcake when the neighbors came over for dinner later in the evening.

Filed under // amy cameron dillan outdoors

Cary, NC

Posted May 8, 2010

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Amy's New Ride

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Its a 2010 Honda Pilot EX-L.

We'd been driving Amy's Mazda for over three years, and had put over 60k mile on it, and its been a little cramped ever since Dillan joined the family, so we decided to upgrade.

We were initially looking for a used '09 model, but after a little shopping around I managed to find a brand new model for only a tiny bit more. They also gave us a pretty decent trade-in for the Mazda, so we didn't have to bother with selling it ourselves.

The Honda has more space, and more features, so as long as we don't go poppin' out any more kids, this should last us for quite a while.

Filed under // amy cars

Cary, NC

Posted February 27, 2010

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Getting into the spirit...

It's never too early to get into the mother fuckin spirit!

We went all out this year and bought a real live 7 foot tall tree. Cameron was super-excited to go pick up the tree. He also seemed excited to decorate the tree, but in reality I think he just wanted to play with the train ornaments.

I started putting up lights outside yesterday but got sidetracked and couldn't finish. Then today my next-door neighbor suddenly had his lights up. Well I couldn't be out done, so I resumed setting up my lights this evening after we finished with the tree. I still have a little more to do tomorrow, but it's looking pretty good so far.