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Hey, guess what? I'm still here! I am

sorry for the long silence, but I had a

bit of an episode with major back 

spasms that really did get the best 

of me there for awhile. You know,

where you have those awful thoughts

of Am I going to live through this?

Well, live through it I did and I am

back to baking and caking. I just

finished catering a picnic dinner for 

50 people this weekend and that 

made me really, really tired  LOL

My family has a bunch of spring babies

and between the months of March and

June we have 10 birthdays--and that's

not counting Mother's Day!

That is a lot of parties and cakes, and

then to top it off my older daughter

graduated from high school!!! She

turned 18 in May and graduated

the same month. We will have her

graduation party in July because

she went on a month long trip to

WA state right after graduation.

She took this lovely portrait herself--isn't 

it gorgeous? One of her goals is to be a 

photographer. A friend told me the other 

day, I think she is already!

She also tested for her high Blue belt in Tae Kwon Do and

passed. Next is Red and then on to Black. She graduated

with a 3.71 GPA and will come back home to attend the

local university until she enters the Coast Guard.

My younger daughter finished 6th grade with very high

grades the entire year, mostly A's. Here she is on the

left with her class singing at their year-end concert.

The other girl to the right is her younger cousin.

This was am amazing performance, these kids 

were really, really good!

I had to throw a little bit of cuteness in

here. My little niecie-poo out at the island

cabin just hanging around  :-)

The bears are back out by the estuary. If you look at the

top of the picture in the middle of the boardwalk you

can see momma bear and she had a yearling cub with

her by the tree.

We ran into a tourist lady with 2 children that were in

the area camping and wanted to walk on the boardwalk.

The Forest Service was out there that day putting the

tape back up across the boardwalk so people would

stay away. This lady was highly perturbed that she

couldn't walk along the boardwalk with her 2 kids

and she let everybody know it.

Hmmm, maybe they should have just let her go...

It's still a free country and they are just fuzzy old 

Grizzly Bears, right?

I have been busy caking and baking. Here is a baby shower

cake I made--this was really fun! Everything on the cake

is edible, chocolate cake with marionberry filling.

Here is the cake I made for my daughter's 18th birthday,

complete with hand made sugar flowers that were dusted

lavandar. This isn't the cake I had planned on doing, but

this was right in the middle of the back spasms episode,

so I feel fortunate that I was even able to finish it!

Both tiers were chocolate, the top tier had peanut

butter filling, the bottom was Oreo cookie filling.

A cake I made for my sister in law's birthday. She was at

my house and mentioned how cute this purse was, so

that's where I got the idea for her cake. Carrot cake with

whipped cream cheese frosting and white chocolate

flowers.

Beautiful weather, beautiful scenery and boats galore!