Kaiah

Our dog Kaiah is currently almost 3 years old. Wow time flies!

She is a british creme golden retriever and is a very happy dog. I'm pretty much in love with her. 

We snuggle all the time and where ever I go, she goes. If I could bring dogs to the grocery store and to restaurants, I would bring her with. 

Water is her favorite place to be. When we go to my parents lake home, she would be perfectly content spending the entire week walking around in the lake and swimming around the dock. 

Today she spent the day outside with me as I worked on the yard. We have some large bushes in the front of our house that have a shady spot in between them where the ground stays cool and moist. With her thick, long coat of hair, she's always trying to stay cool which makes that spot one of her favorites. She can usually find a loose stick to chew on too. :)

I love my pup!

Summer Cupcakes

This last week, I was feeling a little like Betty Crocker and decided to test my cupcake decorating skills. I made over 5 dozen cupcakes. 

My favorite flavor was lemon cake with cream cheese frosting. 

I decorated those cupcakes as if they were little glasses of lemonade complete with lemon and lime candies with a little straw! 

I also tried to use jelly beans to make a cupcake look like corn on the cob. 

The yellow cupcakes were cut in half and used as a hamburger bun. I made red velvet cupcakes and cut them so that they would be the little hamburger inside the bun. Then added red and yellow frosting to be the ketchup and mustard. 

Needless to say, I don't think I will be decorating that many cupcakes again anytime soon!