make the cake

The girls and I went to my sister's place last weekend.  My nephew had a Boy Scout cake auction, so we helped to make this masterpiece...it was fun!  I did the wording, which was actually two colors...blue and gold, Boy Scout colors.  I also helped my nephew to do the icing of the "logs" and make the texture so they looked like real logs.  My sister was the coal expert, making them out of donut holes and fruit rollups.
We had a fun time making it, and going to the auction the next night.  There weren't a ton of people to bid on the cakes besides those who had made them, but it did get up to $25.  Maria wanted me to bid on a cake shaped like an Easter basket, which happened to be carrot cake.  I did bid, but when it got up to $40, I quit. She was heartbroken about that.  I did get a train cake though.
Friday during the day I took the girls to have lunch with my nephew Trey at his school.  Then afterward we went to a local park for about an hour.  That is where Anna had her first swing ride...she wasn't too impressed.  Maria was able to play with another little girl, not too much older than her, that was there with her great-grandmother.  Ironically she knows my sister and my nephew.  They girls had a great time while I chatted with the grandmother.  We went back to the house and the girls and I ALL had a nap.  That is rare at home, but since Maria had not slept well the night before, and we were sharing a bed, I didn't sleep well either.  So, nap we did...it was good.