Cake Party

I have been in party hosting withdrawal. Our house has been such a mess with construction we haven't been able to have people over. But last week we did it anyway to have a cake party. Lots of people are having parties to reveal if their baby is a boy or a girl. Commonly the inside of the cake is colored blue or pink. BUT since Josh wanted his sister to make the cake I said it wouldn't be fair for her to know first so we had one of Josh's favorite kinds of cake and planned a party! Here is the cake.

It was a huge 12x18" chocolate cake with strawberry filling between the two layers. Even with all of our family helping us, we still hardly ate half of it at our BABY BOY party!

Everybody had to cast a vote before they got a piece of cake. We had eleven votes for boy, four for girl, and the following unique votes.

Missionary, one of each, 1/2 vote for boy and girl and the 

name suggestions of 

Boy:Bill 

Girl:Pansy.

We had a fun time celebrating together and we all look forward to seeing a holding our new baby.

Drywall lady

We have been putting up a lot of drywall. Which means I've been doing a lot of mud and sand work.  I don't like it...but it will be good in the end. Here I am (taking a break from working on the ceiling) trying to keep my hair from looking like I'm 70!

all dolled up

Panel

Josh and his Dad worked on insulating and preparing for new siding around the electrical panel on our house. They put this cool PVC board on the wall so the siding guys don't have to do so much work around all the individual boxes and we have good insulating foam on our wall!

taking off the old stuff

Josh's handywork