Sunday, February 28, 2010

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.

100_2169Of 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.

100_2170 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.

100_2168 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.

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9 comments:

  1. Fun! Congratulations on the new table, and hutch. They are lovely :)

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  2. What a wonderful table and hutch!! It looks a lot like our table and chairs :-) The cake looks great to me!!

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  3. They look gorgeous! Glad to see they came. I'm going to be making cakes galore this week.

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  4. What a wonderful table and hutch. Congrats!

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  5. Your new furniture looks great - what a generous present from your friends! The dining set reminds me of ours, except ours doesn't open into more. I am sure Selena is excited about all the changes in her environment.

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  6. The dining set and china hutch are lovely! I agree with Lindsay, the cake looks fine to me. Yum yum!

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  7. New furniture is always exciting. I'm sure there will be lots of laughs to be had around your table and memories made.

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  8. yay! I'm so excited for you! what a wonderful blessing! thanks for visiting my blog, you are welcome to visit any time!!

    I'm new to the Blog hop... but am interested to see how it goes :)

    amy in peru
    http://fisheracademy.blogspot.com

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  9. Hi! Thanks for following! I am following back from the Home School Hop:) Your china hutch and table are beautiful! I am excited for you, because I actually know how you feel! I just this year got a set, including china hutch (after 32 years of marriage)--we have used many things, including a painter's scaffolding which my husband made, used to paint, and then turned into a table:), for tables over the years (not complaining--they worked just fine, but I do enjoy having a set). So happy for you.
    Blessings,
    Wendy

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