Off With Their Heads!

I absolutely love both Johnny Depp and Tim Burton and am extremely excited that they're teaming up again for a remake of Alice in Wonderland. Unfortunately it's not scheduled to come out until early next year, but Joe sent me a link to some sneak peak photos and I'm super excited! Both the Mad Hatter and the Red Queen look fabulous! --As my parents would all too happily share, I have a personal connection with the Red Queen...







The pictures are from abc news. You can check out the rest of them here.

Lobster! Lobster! Lobster!

These are the last of the photos from my brother's visit. The four of us had a good time even though the weather was rather drab. We managed to find a few non-rainy hours to drive to the hot-spots in Acadia and around the island, and we bviously managed to stuff ourselves with seafood. While the tide schedule didn't allow us any time to dig for our own clams or pick our own mussels, we still ate some, along with some rather large lobsters. After all, what kind of a sister would I be if I denied my seafood-loving brother a giant, fresh, Maine lobster that won't break your bank?!

















Our summer of visitors has officially begun now! --Let's just hope the rain settles down for the rest of our guests!

Stroke! Stroke!

We took Dennis and Jeni kayaking on the one nice day we had during their visit. I was afraid we wouldn't get any sun, but thankfully Saturday was absolutely beautiful! We spent the morning out on the water, paddling around -or attempting to paddle as was the case with Dennis and Jeni- and enjoying the sunshine. Of course I came back sunburned, even though I was the one who instructed everyone else to put on suntan lotion...I should probably be used to it by now, but it still gets frustrating! Ahh well. It was a fun morning, followed by a visit to the meat party, a late afternoon nap, and then a trip to the improv comedy theater. I would call it a successful day!

Purse Cake!

Jeni and Dennis came to visit for the past few days. Poor Jeni had to take a red-eye flight on the night of her birthday, so I made her a purse cake to celebrate when she got here the next day!





It was rather delicious! And while I thought I did a good job keeping the cake small, we still managed to have cake to eat throughout their entire visit - plus a few extra slices! Not that it's a problem...Joe is enjoying the left overs plenty!

I Almost Lost My Shorts!

Joe and I have been lucky enough to have the time -and the weather- to go kayaking for the past two weekends. It's the first time I've been in the ocean in our little boat, and it's been a great time! We drove out to our clamming spot to launch and paddled our way out to an island a short distance.

We decided to take a break once we reached the island since the wind had become so strong. The tide was out, and we found a sand bar connecting our island with another small island. They were both quite small, but there were lots of tide pools filled with fish and other small critters.



After wandering around a bit, we headed back to our kayak, thinking the tide had probably come up a ways and might be approaching the height to which we had dragged our kayak on the shore.

Boy were we lucky we returned when we did. Our kayak, which had been a few feet out of the water, was floating in the water, held in place only by a few clumps of seaweed that were blocking its path. I had laid my shorts over the nose of the boat to dry while we wandered around and I nearly lost them. They were sunk in the water a few feet away...good thing it was warm enough to paddle home in just my bathing suit!

Mmmm Delicious!

Pizza toppings! So delicious on a breezy summer evening!

Happy Birthday Bryon!

I attempted a rather difficult Fireman's Hat shaped cake for a friend's birthday last week. The pictures aren't all that swell, but the cake wound up looking pretty good and tasting fabulous! Mmmm double chocolate!