weekend cake...

before heading to the fair grounds for Relay for Life on Friday, i had a cake order to deliver...this was a special cake for 12 year old Morgan...Morgan decided she wanted to design her cake personally, & gave me this drawing a few days prior...

i changed things just a tad, but kept her color scheme & basic design...the dogs were to look like her chocolate lab...& i heard from her mom that Morgan loved how her cake turned out...says she wants to get her birthday cakes made by me from here on out! ;0)

it was 3 tiers of homemade confetti cake...iced in green buttercream, & accented with dark chocolate fondant (tastes like tootsie rolls) dogs & paw prints

& the winner of a FREE CUSTOM CAKE is...

Kristin Watts!!!

thanks so much for your generous donation of $250 to our Relay for Life team, Kristin! with ur help (& that of many others), the Warrior Women flew right by our goal of $2,000 & raised over $3,185!!! i say over, because believe it or not...there's actually a few more donations that were turned in the night of the relay, & have not been added to our total yet!

once again, thx to EVERYONE that supported our team & this amazing cause! i'm working on a post for tomorrow that will tell u guys all about our night at Relay...& of course i have some pics to share...it was quite the experience - once of the best nights of my life!!!
♥

*Kristin - shoot me an email & let's start designing that free custom cake ;0)

happy Mother's Day!

A Dream Come True playground...

Curtis has been driving the kiddos by this playground for months...they slowly watched it go up, & were thrilled when it finally opened this week!

i love the story behind this playground...& that it's for kiddos of ALL abilities!!!

& boy does this place have everything!

from cool art & chalk walls...

even the sidewalks are pretty...there's embedded colored glass everywhere...

to your normal playground equipment...

to super fun twisty slides...

to shaded canopies over most of the play areas...

& that super bouncy foam stuff all over for flooring - just in case ;0)

there's a water feature that the kiddos can touch...here's a girl getting her hair wet on what was a really hot day...& Rocket helping himself to a drink ;0)

there's a shaded & open (not shaded) picnic area...

there are tons of interactive features...a wall with fossils & embedded bugs, that has buttons all over it & they make animal noises when u push em...here, the stepping stones make different noises when u hop on them...the girls said even the water fountain had sound effects!

to some really cool toys! i saw these things that looked like pogo-sticks, only they were fixed to the ground...this was sort of like a merry-go-round, only standing up...

personal sand tables...

swings of all sizes...

a little track for trikes...

even a hammock to rest in...

& relax is exactly what Rocket did on this super hot day...

this playground is located in Harrisonburg...on the street that connects Port Road & Reservior...it may be a little bit of a treck to take our kiddos there...but i highly recommend that all u locals check it out - especially those with special needs kiddos...talk about some majorly fun sensory input!

we can't wait to go back!!!

these boots were made for walkin'...

and that's just what they'll do...

tonight, at Relay for Life!

there ceremony kicks off at 6pm tonight, with the survivor lap being the very first lap...then we'll continue on thru the night - up until 6am! (then comes clean up ~wink~)

thx again for all the support u guys have given us...we set our original team goal at $2,000...& after all is said & done this weekend, we're gonna be right at $3,000! & that's just amazing! for getting started a little late (January), & being such a small team...i think we did good!

i mean check it out...we're golden!!!
;0)

thank u, thank u, thank u!!!
♥

celebrate, remember...fight back!

Warrior Women - Stronger Than Cancer


u know i'll have plenty of pics coming next week ;0)

xoxox,
sharon

weekend recap...

foggy morning walks...

& summer haircuts on a Saturday morning...

collecting 1/2 gallon of hair for Locks of Love...

playing outside in the sun...

chilling with a friend...

late night ice cream trips to JJ's...then riding around with the windows rolled down, listening to tunes & enjoying the summer-like drive with the fam...

church on Sunday morning...

& a Slurpee stop afterward...

roller skating...

& shakin' ur groove thing...

evening bike rides...

& making charm bracelets* for the upcoming week...


pretty cool weekend if u ask me!
;0)

*the girls were looking for a way to do some of their own fundraising for Relay for Life...i suggested they make something, & they asked to do bracelets...i picked up some supplies & used some of what we already had, & we made about 25 charm bracelets (& a few necklaces) for the girls to sell at school...they took 6 the first day & sold out right away! at only $1 a piece, their friends jumped on these sweet little bracelets...& the girls felt major pride in raising some cash of their own to put towards our Relay goal...i'm pretty proud of them too ;0)

wordless Wednesday...do we look illegal?

do we look illegal?

we did it!!!

team Warrior Women has raised $2,665 so far...flying by our $2,000 goal!!!

there are 3 days left til Relay, so u still have a chance to win that free cake...the gift to beat now is $250 (thx Kristin!!!)...winner announced Monday

thx for all ur support!!!