Baby Shower Cake

Order: Sheet Cake; Vanilla Cake; Raspberry filling; Fondant icing; Colors pink and black; decorate with stars.

Result:

Ozone

for 44 points.  My highest scoring word of the night, of which Shelly won both games.  (Ego boost)

Game night was a blast as usual.  However we are all old and tired or tired and old or need to do these on Saturday afternoons instead.  Still four hours of visiting, two games of scrabble, one bottle of wine, laughing and a crazy rainy drive home of which I hydroplaned when going through a huge puddle of standing water on 509 that I did not see in the dark.

I don’t have the final scores, lets just say Shelly won and did a good job.  She rarely took any time at all when the other two could have napped while Diane and I both had our turns.

Wrestle

Four straight hours of puppy wrestling last night.
I swear Char said something about them going hard for 45 minutes and then crashing.  But from 5pm until well into greys after 9:00 they were non stop wrestling, romping, chasing, crashing and tearing leaves off the house plants with every pass through the dining room.

They didn’t however sleep in my bed.  Crashed pretty quickly when I went to bed and except for an explosion of barking at 2am, I think because of thunder.  Everyone was up so we went out and then back to bed but the barking kept going and going until I turned the bedside lamp on and left it on and we all slept the rest of the night, er 2 more hours)

Missy slept under the bed, clearly wanting no part of the hoopla.

Their Grrrreat

Danes that is!

Oh My.  It is nearly impossible to get a picture of them that is not blurry.  Because they do not slow down, constant movement.

I have a dozen or so blurry pictures from the time they got here last night at 8 ish to when we attempted to go to bed at 9:30.

There was whining, and more whining, and more whining (Katherine, think Aynia) and then a big sigh out of Missy a few hours in like she was saying alright already.

Mary happened to stop by to drop off money at about midnight, which I knew that she was going to but what I didn’t realize was the size of the bark in my closed off bedroom at midnight from three big dogs.  I may have been dozing off and on by then but we were all awake and so I took everyone out.  There was 20 minutes of romping and whining before I shuttled everyone back to bed.

I gave up telling them off whenever they tried to get on the bed, because once Jak was up there his whining stopped.  Riley followed and her whining was less but still there.  However by 2 we were all sleeping, even if I couldn’t move. Alarm went off at 4 and the morning shuffle and feeding and getting ready for work began.  Here are the pups, the only time they were not moving was after I rolled out of bed and they were still on it.  I snapped these right before Missy stirred from under the bed and the barking chorus began.

Riley, 6 month female 80+pounds

Jak, 6month male. 90+ pounds