Cedar Point

The weather looked nice on Sydney's birthday, so we decided to surprise the kids and take them to Cedar Point. Sydney had told us that she wanted to go to the Zoo and to Build-A-Bear on her birthday. After we suggested we go to Cedar Point instead in the morning, she said, "can we go to Build-A-Bear after Cedar Point??"

It was a great day -not too warm, but sunny.

Zack stands in awe of his favorite ride - Top Thrill dragster.

We packed our lunch and ate over in the picnic area. Yummy Sun Chips!!!

Ughhhh, I can't stand another spinning ride!!

Today the Junior Gemini - tomorrow Top Thrill Dragster!! Note there was no one else on the ride - we hardly had to wait in any lines that day.


It was a long day - we didn't get out of the park until almost 11pm. Good thing we had that stroller, I would have never been able to carry Zack around that long! As we were driving through the parking lot at night, there was quite a few bags left over from takeout food and pop cans - and the ever present seagulls looking for a bite to eat. I drove over some cups and bags on our way out and they made crunch sound. When Sydney heard that she said "Mom, you just ran over a bird!!" That was the funniest thing I'd heard all day!!

Birthday for Sydney (a little early)

We had originally planned on just having a Memorial day cookout, but since both grandparents were coming over we decided to open presents for Sydney's 6th b-day too (only 5 days early).

Zack waits pretty patiently while Sydney gets all of the attention...

It's all about Hello Kitty this year...

Grandpa W and Sydney

here are some cool swimming goggles the kids got...

Even though it was only about 75 degrees (maybe) outside, the kids had to try out the new slip and slide that Sydney got.

Birthday cake

I know it's hard to believe from looking at these pictures, but I really did take two Wilton cake decorating classes! I guess you learn enough to be dangerous - which is what I am when I'm left to my own devices and need to come up with a cake design on my own. I can really excel when when I follow a design in a book, but I just can't seem to get the right balance of design and color when I do it myself. But I digress, this is really a story about a birthday cake... so Sydney and I looked through my cake books and she found a cool frosting cat that she wanted on her cake. Since we decided to have her birthday party early with the grandparents, I had to make a cake on short order. I came up with this cake and the cat even came out pretty decent.

but the next morning.....

Well much to my surprise, when I took the cake cover off the next morning, all of the frosting on the back of the cake had slid off !!! We ran the dishwasher last night and I think the hot air from the dishwasher was blown in the direction of the cake and caused the mess. waaa. Well at least is was the back of the cake!!