The latest in September...All things positive.

IT's DONE!!!

Our lawn. 

The project of the century.

 We are SO happy and relieved; and so are, I'm sure, all the amazing people that have helped us tirelessly. Those poor souls. We love them much.

They all did SUCH a good job!! The pictures don't do it justice... Our nice camera is broken so I'm having to document my life with my iPhone.  There are worse things; especially since we pre-ordered the NEW iphone 5 2 days ago(what?! Ya, I know.) So the camera on that phone is going to rock,  pretty darn exciting. But in the meantime the picture quality is slightly less than "normal" when we had our "nice" camera.

So, we should have legit grass in about 6-7weeks folks!! Feel free to come over and roll in it with me 

all day,

everyday,

thereafter. 

 Doesn't it look WONDERFUL?? I know you cant really see because of the lighting--but it looks awesome. And we got "curbing" put in and it looks REALLY good too. Ps. In case you didn't know, our backyard is massive. I'm suddenly realizing it's going to take like an hour a week to mow that bad boy. Bring. it. on.

And then Natasha came over and said "Why don't you ever spike Rod's hair?" It really struck me, why don't I ever spike Rods hair?? So then I did. And I asked myself the same question AGAIN, because seriously, IT's SO DANG CUTE!! Where have I been??

 He looks so much more grown up with his hair done! And that's really saying something because he always just looks like a mini adult anyway. So basically, anyway you slice it he looks amazing; so you can be expecting to see more of it...

And this is Jax, in poor lighting, doing the look you can also expect to see more of; because he has started doing it EVERY TIME I say "Smile!" It's kind of half terrible pain, half beyond giddy, half dental appointment, and half totally faking it. 200% Cute!

 Sorry this is blurry--darn phone:) But I was trying to get a picture of them together and this was the best I could do. Rod refused to sit NEXT to Jax, he just wanted to sit ON him. He kept backing up to him and sitting and then they would both fall over and he would do it again.

And I think i'm going to start documenting special stuff I make.  Because I really think I like to bake. And when I look back at my blog book I can remember the all the stuff I made and get the "see Tawny you DO do cool things sometimes" 

I have a fetish with desserts. 

So I usually ask what people want for their birthday dessert and try and oblige. (It will also be fun to document what people choose--I'm weird curious like that) My family is kind enough to let me experiment on them on those special occasions. Actually it doesn't have to be a special occasion for them to let me experiment on them. :) This "experiment" (baking is always an experiment I think) actually worked out--some of  them don't as well.

So it was Gabriel's birthday yesterday.

Gabe is one of my kindred spirits when it comes to desserts. He loves cheesecake. I love cheesecake, He loves brownies, I love brownies, He loves chocolate ganache, so do I, x 12.:) 

So I choose, with his help, to make him this "Brownie Mosaic Cheesecake". I've actually made a LOT of cheesecakes in my day,(there is an exta-special place in my heart for cheescake,) and I think this one turned out, overall, (look, taste, and texture) as one of the very best. So I'm kind of proud. It's so nice to spend tons of time on something that actually works out. I've had the opposite happen more than I like to count.

 To bad I'm not a food photographer, cause it looked awesome. And tasted awesome.

 So there is my ode to myself.

PS. 53 days until our cruise!! It is sooo nice to have something so positive to look forward to; it can really help with those hard days. Today is a good day though (yesssss!). But it's still really nice to have something so positive to look forward to on good days too. :)