Fall

We are loving our last warm days. Fall is so beautiful around here. I love the trees and smells, the tiny nip in the air that makes it perfect for wearing sweaters and eating soup with hot cheese on bread (you fellow Checchio's know what I am talking about) I took the Fall scenery as a good excuse to bring my camera to the park today.

Miles is so stinking cute holding his leaf. Notice how his feet are blurry. He likes to sit and swing his feet now. I think its so adorable.

Check him out!

Our Car....again!

I know its blurry, but the reflection was making it really hard to get a good shot.....this is a picture of the hood of my car! Can you believe that people do this kind of thing for fun. I walked up to the car and noticed these large scratches first. Then noticed all the little messages. These girls....yeah, you heard me right. Girls! I don't know why but I just expect vandals to be boys, but these were clearly girls. They had written "Lena was here" "Georgia was here" and then quickly tried to key it out when they realized how stupid it was to write your name on some one's car! I mean, I even get annoyed when someone writes "wash me" in the grime left on my car, let alone this. It perplexes me as to why people decide to do things like this.
O yeah, and yesterday someone broke into it again! Come on!!! At least they never take the carseat, and there isn't ever ANYTHING in it....not even change, But I guess they have figured it out and want to do it whenever they can. Soooo frustrating!!!

Pay it Forward.

I recently participated in a "pay it forward" via my friend Annie's blog. She sent me the cutest little clutch, a great truck for Miles, lip balm, gum, and a great waterbottle. It was all fabulous! James ate the gum, and Miles took over the waterbottle, but I don't think anyone will fight me for the clutch :)
I am excited to say that now its my turn to Pay It Forward. So leave a comment on my blog and I will pick three of you to send a care package to. You just have to promise to pay it forward to three more people.
Now I just have to figure out some great things to pack up!

Free Handbag!

Hey its worth a shot right?
www.handbagplanet.com
Good Luck!

New Couch

As some of you know and most of you don't (thank goodness) we bought a LEMON of a couch when we first furnished our house two and half years ago. Its cream leather...supposedly...and has a matching chair and loveseat. Now the chair and loveseat are great. love them. they're fabulous. But the couch is a disaster. It started tearing on the seat cushions. We tried to patch them with extra leather from underneath, and stitch them together, but nothing worked. We finally resorted to covering it with a beige throw. Unfortunately that solution did not last long since the back cushions decided to go south. It is seriously the strangest thing. You would think a tiger had been our living room and shredded out couch....so weird.

We are moving in eight months when James is done with school, and I figured that we would just grin and bear it. But James had other ideas, and after many discussions and looking on craig's list at many horrendously ugly couches we found one that worked....

Espresso brown leather that matches our ottomans, and low to the ground like our other pieces. But the best and most important part was that the arms detach so we could fit it through our 27 inch front door.....imagine how that limited us.
I figured that now that our "dirty laundry" was on the back patio, it was OK to air it out.

Aunt Christi comes to visit!

James' sister Christi came out for a little under a week to get some dental work done....well a lot of dental work done, poor girl. It was so fun to have company and get to visit with her. Miles loved having her around and all the extra attention he was getting.



We know that more dental work will bring her back to Philly. Hopefully its sooner rather than later. :)

Wedding Cakes....

It is definitely wedding cake season around here, so I have been lucky enough to keep busy with what I love to do (besides hanging out with my men)

Liz and Owen's wedding cake. this was sooooo fun to do because I had no limits at all. My boss was great, and donated all the supplies, and Liz just trusted me to make something fabulous.

Owen's grooms cake. It was a complete suprise to him and a nice little touch to the event.

A 60th birthday cake I did last week....apparently she wanted something "glitsy". Hope she was happy.


A wedding cake that I thought was hideous, but it must be the brides "cup o' tea".

A wedding cake that is commonly done at my bakery. The fondant ribbon at the bottom of each tier was giving me trouble since it was so humid that day, it made things awfully sticky.

Here is a topsy turvy cake that I started, but didn't get to put the finishing touches on. You can see it doesn't have a border yet and isn't quite fabulous enough to head out of the bakery....I have to say I love a non-traditional cake, and one's that look like they may fall over are my favorite!

A really simple design, but I like the mixing of shapes, it adds a little more interest than just round. Hopefully it got some fresh flowers on sight because it looks a little dull.

Oh, the traditional wedding cake.
Hope you all enjoyed the peek. I take all of these pictures and figure I should do something with them. :) If you ever want a cake for anything, just let me know!

Just for laughs..

Miles and I took some pictures while he was playing in my bedroom the other day.

Looking mischevious.

Gonna get me!

And here he is showing me the remains of his cracker...nice right!

Poke-A-Nose

Have I told you all that my parents are the greatest people ever! Well, if I have, you are going to hear it again.....so my parents are the GREATEST people ever!!!!
While James and I were up in the Cape for Liz's wedding my parents flew all the way from SLC to watch Miles. They rented a time share in the Poconos with my Grandma Checchio and stayed for the week.


Here is Miles and my Mom enjoying the grass outside. He had so much fun, and I am sure made my parents take him everywhere. He is always on the move.

My Dad and his siblings suprised my Grandma with a birthday party while she was there. Miles was probably thrilled since this party included one of those mylar balloons that they sell at the grocery store-he is always so obssessed with those.

It also included a rather large tray of Italian antipaste which Miles had my Mom push him around on while he sat in it.


It was so great of them to come do that. James and I were able to have a wonderful weekend with no worries, since we knew that Miles was so well taken care of. Thank you!!! oxox