A long, long week

Sam was up late every night this week studying. Being a dutiful, loving wife, I stayed up with him. I started a new book, My Life with the Saints, which has been awesome so far. I joined pinterest. I read Real Simple. I planned a bridal shower.

Just as I was out of ideas, I remembered that Thursday was my coworker Agnes' birthday. So on Wednesday as Sam was hard at work, I made a cake. Agnes is so sweet and kind, I wanted to bake something special for her. With a little help from pinterest and Martha Stewart, I decide on a lemon cake with lemon zest butter cream, and a lemon curd topping. I won't lie, it was tasty!

I leveled off both layers so it would stack evenly and I was left with a lot of cake. I have been wanting to try cake pops so I mixed the rest of the frosting in and rolled little balls. Much to my dismay, it wasn't as easy as it looks. My cake pops are lumpy, strange shapes. I was planning on serving them at the bridal shower- now I am not sure if they are passable. A few have already fallen off the lollipop sticks.

We also had the treat of watching our nephews tonight. My sister-in-law had a beautiful baby boy, Oliver James,  a week ago, so we took her three older boys to our apartment for dinner and a movie.  They loved the new attachment on our faucet which changes colors with the temp of the water. Thanks, Whit, for that awesome gift!

Sam had the brilliant idea to set up our tent  in the living room. 

He even let them eat a snack as if they were camping.

They requested Japanese food for dinner. Sam and I were both tired so we served Trader Joe's California rolls, frozen pizza and mochi- I had to try it. It was a great end to the longest week ever.