Double-special Day

9th June... Two birthdays on one DAY. That is really special! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VICKI! :)

HAPPY *6 year* Sobriety BIRTHDAY, MURRAY! :)

So, naturally, it was very exciting yesterday to prepare for the celebration.

Murray had to work in the morning and we planned the festive dinner for the evening...

Chocolate cake was the special request, and my plan was to make it myself, of course. I talked to Mother in the morning through Skype, I gathered some advice from her as to what and how to make the cake.....

While Kaleb had his nap, I got to work: I made the cake and the frosting, introducing a new thing, a Sugar Substitute. ... Later, during the afternoon, when I was ready to apply the frosting on the baked cake (in my husband's company), it turns out the inside of the cake doesn't look good at all. The whole thing was useless....That was hard to accept.......We ended up buying a cake from Albertson's.... :)

I was restless though, so I made a sponge cake at home in the middle of dinner-preparations.....No wonder I was behind schedule: Leslie arrived, and I was not ready. She was gracious, though, she helped out with Kaleb and the cabbage salad.

The mashed potato and the Italian sausage was DELICIOUS. (It has been some time since we had potatoes: we are trying :) to be on this DIET...).

Oops, we forgot to take photos......