Ice Cream Cake and Cupcakes

I mentioned in an earlier post that my family grew up having Baskin Robbins ice cream cakes for our birthdays.  Last week was my brother Bruce's birthday, so I decided to make a homemade oreo fudge ice cream cake.  I was surprised at how easy it was, and it tasted great.

Speaking of Bruce, he had to do a process paper for his English class and decided to do strawberry cupcakes.  I photographed the process for him and he made a book.  It was a lot of fun to practice taking pictures, and the book turned out great.  I think it was an A project for sure.  Here are some photos I liked.

We couldn't leave Hazel out of the book.  She was Part 4: Enjoy!

And this was just a cute picture I took at Bruce's house of Hazel that I really liked.

Family Pictures

Last week we had pictures taken.  They were supposed to be around Hazel's birthday for her one year old pictures, but we decided to wait so our friend Katie, who lives in Ohio, would be able to be in town to take them.  She is an excellent photographer and did a great job.  I'll post some later, but for now you can view some of them on her blog.

Deer Creek

On Saturday we went sailing at Deer Creek with Whitney, Bruce, and his roommate Andy.  Hazel loved the water and kept walking down to the beach to get in even though it was a little cold.  I'll have to remember to bring her sand toys next time, because she kept trying to take the other kids shovels and buckets.  With the weather continuing to be so hot, we'll have to go back again soon.

Independence Day Weekend

Saturday: Woke up really early to run the Freedom 

Half Marathon in Salt Lake and made my goal

 of running it in under 2 hours, took a nap, 

attended the Stadium of Fire.

Sunday:  Went to church, had a family BBQ with 

great food, attended a non-secular patriotic 

observance at the Scera Shell. 

Monday:  Rode to the Grand Parade on our patriotic 

tandem, walked around the Freedom Festival 

and met up with my sister and her five kids, 

took a nap, went sailing.

4th of July Dessert

My sister needs a 4th of July dessert on Sunday, so I 

was practicing with these mini cheesecakes.  I thought they turned out really 

well, and they were super easy to make.  I got the idea 

from this website, but I altered the 

cheesecake recipe.