A Busy Weekend

Last weekend we got our table and chairs. Now understand I am pretty excited as I have never had a dinette set in my entire adulthood. Our friends are getting ready to move back to Virginia for a one year deployment with the Navy and decided to give us this dinette set, in payment all Dave wanted was a chocolate cake with raspberry filling. I also threw in lunch of homemade Chile.

Of course Selena immediately picked out her place at the table.  It has two more chairs and a leaf as well, for when we have company. Wow I will actually be able to seat more then 4 at my table!

Today they delivered the matching China hutch. I was going to wait until I got my tea sets put in it to take pictures, but decided to go on a head and take a picture now. I will post one of my tea sets later.

I am going to use the bottom half for all our school supplies, well maybe not all of them, but the ones we use on a regular basis. I am sure the drawers will be used for the same.

This is all I had to pay for the cake. A chocolate cake. I notice it looks a little lopsided in this picture. I was having a horrible time with the frosting last night. I usually like to have a couple of days to bake and decorate a cake, and only had yesterday to do this one in. I didn’t feel like sifting all the powder sugar required to make my own frosting, so instead I bought a bucket of Wilton’s white frosting and made my own chocolate frosting from that. It was so fluffy and had a great texture for frosting and decorating a cake when I first opened the bucket, and even after I made the chocolate frosting. Then not knowing if I would get it totally decorated last night I put the frosting in the refrigerator, when I took it out it was no longer fluffy. I let it warm up the whole nine yards and I could never get that frosting to fluff back up. I even tried putting it back in my mixer to see if I couldn’t get more air in it to fluff it up. I will never buy that frosting again unless I know I will be using it as soon as I open the container. It did taste good though.

If you get a chance go see all the cool places this family have been to and seen so far in the past couple of years of traveling in their 5th wheel/home at The Traveling Fenns.