Sarah's B-day continued

Here are pictures of Sarah's birthday celebration:

Sarah's 25th Birthday!

PARTY HERE!!!

Sarah turns the big 25 today. My young wife is going to live it up today...as soon as she gets up from her after school nap!

So, here is what's going on now:

I got the cake making supplies, gifts, and champagne. Sarah got home at 1pm from school today. As you know, professors make people sleepy, so she didn't fight it and took a siesta. While she slept, I was down stairs baking and decorating the cake with Blackberry the cat.

I was inspired by the television chefs to make a cake that people can only dream about. However, I think I may have lost something when I purchased a Yellow cake with fudge swirl Betty Crocker mix at the store today. So, I mixed it up, threw it in the oven and BAM!, it was ready to set for an hour and cool. A good time to get the mail and pet the cats.

Like I said before, I was inspired to make a great cake for her. I wanted a double decker cake. I think I knew how from a story that Sarah told me of her dad making them in a similar way. I took the cake and cut in two, put a layer of frosting in the middle, then applied the top.

(It looks like the cat made it doesn't it?)

I then, trimmed the edges and took to frosting the entire cake with the remaining chocolate fudge frosting.

I added some decorative icing to it, then some candles...

I will post pictures of our celebration later tonight.

Happy Birthday Sarah!

The New Life

Sarah and I have been here, in Nipomo, now for 2 weeks! We have been grumpy roommates as we unpack. I think that the fishing rods should be at the front of the office closet. She thinks that they should be in storage! The cats want all their toys out on the stairs. We want them out, but NOT on the stairs. Below is a picture of our little townhouse. We are in the one on the right side where our cars are parked. We have down and upstairs.

Well, things have mellowed out now. Our place is taking shape, something like a home.

We have mostly unpacked. Sarah has been attending classes for her MBA. We filled a storage unit with the crap we aren't sure why we even have it. One of the couches did not fit in the house, so it also went into storage.

I have been looking for work. It sucks. I have submitted many applications by both the Internet and in person. The person to person contact is so valuable, but is not always possible. The best prospect right now are from staffing agencies. One position is a lab tech and the other is a technician at the local nuclear power plant. I have had trouble staying motivated, but I keep going out and talking to people, which really helps keep me going. I just got done taking a skills assessment test for a professional staffing company. Now that sucked. It was easy in theory, since the subject was Microsoft Word and Excel. I am proficient in these. The test itself, however, was a different story. They used a program that pops up in your browser and mimics Excel or Word. I say mimic because it was full of bugs and every time you hit made an error, like selecting copy instead of cut, you have to start over on that question. Don't get me started.

On the plus side. I have time to contemplate where I can go fishing, surfing, and 4-wheeling.

Wish me luck...

The trip and unpacking

We packed the Uhaul FULL!

Then we loaded the Jeep and hit the road...



The drive was actually smooth, but we sure were tired. Th next day we started to unpack. Below is Sarah working on the kitchen.

The cats settled in and got some rest.

Home

We are now in our new home in Nipomo, CA. We arrived yesterday at 9pm. We have loaded it all into the house and now we have to unpack. Moving sucks! We are fine and everything here is great. We are eating Dominos Pizza tonight and relaxing a bit.

Here we go on our latest adventure...

[pictures to come]

MOVING on Monday to Nipomo,CA

It is here...on Sept. 15, we are moving to Nipomo, CA, south of Pismo Beach on hwy 101. We are all packed up and ready to go.