I Love My Husband!!!

Yesterday morning Dusty came home from work with these pretty flowers.

He knew my day was terrible on Saturday and just wanted me to be happy...

What a guy!

My Day

This morning at 5 am I woke up to finish a cake for this afternoon and here's what I found-

BUMMER!

So I make a new one and start covering the other layers with fondant.

And then here's what happened-

My fondant cracks and starts to slip off the cake. (I know the bottom looks crazy but I already knew it wasn't going to work cuz it started cracking right after i put it on the cake. That's why I didn't even try to make the bottom smooth.)

Anyways, I decide to cut the cake price in half and ditch the fondant all together. I frost and decorate it and here's how it turned out-

Pretty cute!

Then all hell breaks loose-

A little chunk falls off... (the party starts in 10 minutes by the way)
Then a bigger chunk falls off... (no one bumped it or touched it at all!)


Then more big chunks fall off
And this is what it looks like by the end of the day.
I gave then the top tier that was all still one piece and bought them a costco cake and cried myself home. I guess it's true what they say... Shit Happens.

For your viewing pleasure, here are Carma and I in Oregon at the worlds largest sea cave. It was filled with hundreds of sea lions and it was pretty cool to see.

We're not sitting with real sea lions, just in case you were confused.

4th of July Weekend in Steilacoom, WA

For the 4th of July, we headed up to Steilacoom, WA to visit Dusty's older brother, Cory. Cory and his wife Brooke just had a baby and he's being deployed to Afghanistan next week, so we went up to bless the baby and say goodbye. We had a lot of family time and fun. On the 4th we went to the city festival and parade and it was by far my favorite part of the weekend. Carma loved watching the parade!

And ate TONS of candy!

And Dusty got especially excited when the firetrucks drove by. He's such a fire nerd!

On one of the days we rented a boat to go fishing and crabbing in (we didn't catch any fish but we did catch one crab). Carma loved her lifejacket just long enough for me to get some pictures but then cried the rest of the time. Oh, and notice Dusty's Mohawk his brother gave him.

(I really, really liked it but he got rid of it once we came home.)

This is the whole Jenkins' Family. We're lucky to have each other to take fun trips with!

My Latest Project

Our rocking chair was so disgusting that I really wanted to buy a new one before this baby comes. Dusty and I decided we'd rather wait and get a really comfy 'man chair' (as he calls it) later. So, I used left over fabric from my curtains that I made and our bed sheet from our old bed to recover this chair. I'm really happy with how well it turned out!

Spicing up the Kitchen

My ward had an enrichment last night and we were all supposed to wear our favorite apron. I really loved how mine turned out! I won Most Outrageous Apron and I couldn't have been more proud. You're welcome to borrow it whenever your kitchen needs a little spicing up!

Always use Protection

Dusty and I just bought a new king size bed (FINALLY!) for oursleves. When I lifted up his size of our old bed to take it apart, this is what I found. At least he's always prepared!

I'm Back

I have fallen victim of blog neglact. I wasn't planning it, we just fell out of love for a while. But I want this relationship to work so here I am, blogging my heart out. I've gathered some pictures from the past months and I will share them with you. Wow, you are so very lucky.

Carma has learned to make a cheesy smile when I tell her to "say cheese". It's pretty cute. I guess we've officially entered into the generic smile phase of her life.

The fire department threw a water safety day with jumpy jumps and snow cones and we even got to check out the airevac helicopters. Dusty was pretty stoked about the helicopter being there but he was really bumbed they weren't giving free rides this year. waa waa.

Carma and I did get to go to the beach with my mom and sisters for almost a week and we had so much fun! Carma is definately a water baby and loved playing in the sand too. She and her cousins had a blast playing together! Aren't these three so presh!?

I love watching all the kids play together. this picture reminds me of being little and playing in the water and getting sandy crotch and loving every minute of it. I'm glad our kids get to make their own memories at the same beach that so many of my memories took place.

Carma LOVES to give Daisy kisses, but it still makes Kelli and I nervous that she might bite her again. But I think she's getting a lot better.

And finally here I am in all my glory. I took this last week at 27 weeks. I never took any progressive pictures of my belly with Carma and I really wish I had. This is the first one I've taken so far so I'm a bit behind but I'll try and remeber to do it. I'm due Sept 2 and I'm feeling really good so far. I'm gearing myself up for a hot summer, but I think it'll go by fast. We're going on a couple trips in July which will help.

I promise to be better about blogging... I think.