Sometimes You Just Need to Bake a Cake (and a 10th anniversary)

 

Hello Friends!

It's been a wild few weeks and it's not over yet 😅

My MIL is back in the hospital (since Friday morning) and that means

that we have had a busy weekend, full of hospital visits, mixed with keeping

grandkids.

Yesterday we stayed home from church so David could go visit his mom.

While he was doing that, I decided to bake a cake. 

Seems like a random thing to do, but I guess I just needed something

normal to do and I had been wanting to try making a two layer cake

with jelly in the middle...so I did.

I had a jar of Sour Cherry Spread and I thought it might pair well with

this vanilla cake.

I didn't add too much; just enough to give you a taste of sweet and tangy,

mixed with the deliciousness of the vanilla cake.

I think it added just the right amount of something.

It was delicious! I topped it off with buttercream frosting

and it was the perfect snack for the afternoon

and my three little guests that came visiting.

We had promised Ted and Alex we would keep the girls as an anniversary gift to them.

Yesterday was their 10th anniversary!

We had their wedding at our old farmhouse, back in 2014.

We turned the carport into a wedding venue,

complete with hay bales to sit on,

candles in mason jars and shortbread cookies

in brown paper sacks for the guests to take home.

It was the most simple wedding and yet,

still to this day,

one of my favorites.

Ted and Alex drove down the driveway in David's old army jeep.

Thankfully they had a car waiting just around the corner.

They wouldn't have made it to Houston if that was their get-away car. 😁

A few fun facts about the wedding:

We forgot to tell our neighbors that we were having a wedding,

so as the ceremony was happening, 

our neighbor was mowing their land behind us. 😅

Also, just as the bride and groom had their wedding kiss,

our two horses put on a show and went running by as fast as they could

(just behind this picture).

You just never know what will happen at a wedding!

Ten years later and here we are 😅

We're so proud of them and the little family they've created.

💝

So back to yesterday,

the girls wanted to sew purses out of fabric,

so that's what we spent the afternoon doing.

I have a feeling that we will be doing more sewing projects

in the future. 

I've taught them how to use needle and thread,

but haven't put them on the machine yet.

They seem content right now just sewing by hand

and with all the excitement we've had around here lately,

I think we'll just stick to that!

🧵

Well, I'm off to start the day.

I'm praying for God to rain down his blessings today;

whatever that may look like.

I hope you have a wonderful Monday, with a blessed week to follow.

Until Next Time...

Blessings!