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Greetings All!

I hope you are all doing well. So far we have had a busy month of August. This month we celebrated Logan's 3rd birthday. Since the current "in thing" for my kids is The LEGO Movie, we had a LEGO birthday. It was quite the crowd with all three of our boys, plus all three of their cousins, Grandma and Grandpa C, Nonie and Papa S., Uncle John, Antie, Uncle Robert, and Aunt Natalie. All the bigger kids had a good time building Duplo or LEGO sets and watching The LEGO Movie in the background. Did I mention my kids are obsessed with that movie?

Build Time at the LEGO party

This year I tried something new - fondant. I found a LEGO mini-figure mold for cake and I wanted to make that for Logan. I didn't really want to cover him with icing stars, since LEGO are smooth, so I decided to try fondant, and it was really fun to use! At the party, we used the mini-figure cake, and I tried to duplicate one of Logan's favorite characters from the movie, Benny, the "1980-something space guy"... I actually think it turned out pretty awesome.

Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!!!!!

For his "family" birthday, since Benny only took half a cake box, I made a round cake, and used some more of the fondant I had. We also bought a scene from, you guessed it, The LEGO Movie, and we used icing to 'glue' it to the top of the cake. This also turned out pretty....awesome.

Melting Room a la Cake

IN OTHER BIG NEWS, we are so excited that Papa and Nonie Sudar have finally sold their home in Texas and have moved up to Colorado. They are so much closer! YAY! It made this weekend visit so much less stressful because we didn't feel we had to fit everything in before we didn't see them for another six months or something. Nonie and Papa enjoyed hanging out with the boys.

Nonie, Spencer, and Jack

We just could not be more excited. What a great month! The next big thing for us is Jack starting Kindergarten, and Logan starting Preschool. Stay tuned for more on that!

Until Next Time...

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Cut Out the Middle Man

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