Camping + Birthday Weekend

Last weekend Matt and I went off for our first camping adventure of the year to Indian Cave State Park near Brownville, Nebraska. Good times were had despite the abnormal amount of ticks and various bugs (seems like a mild winter = massive amount of creepy crawly's). Here is a photo montage of our little outing.

Toshi's all smiles in our yellow tent. He's the kind of dog that wants to watch a few ants, then catch some shut eye, and then go for a car ride in air conditioning.

Oh watermelon, you're my pal forever. 

Hmmm, Instagram photo of Poloroids, I'm in the camera matrix.

Memorial Day weekend is the big opening for the state parks, but the little gift shop/museum was open and I got to add to my patch collection. (I didn't know that some parks had these little patches and so I got a rather late state collecting them...someday I will have them all!)

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We celebrated Matt's birthday as well! Here is a cake I made for the occasion. I used gluten-free strawberry cake recipe with a few alterations (I didn't know what Earth Balance was so I just threw in a stick and half of butter and called it good). Also cream cheese frosting is a fav around here so I made that instead of the recipe's glaze.

Spring & Things

Lots of fun Springy things have been happening lately. I've been enjoying watching my flowers and herbs grow a little bit everyday. This Icelandic Poppy has been hanging out for about a week and finally opened up!

This is also my first year starting a herb garden. These little herb-babies started coming up and then I realized that I probably should not have dumped the whole packed of seeds in one pot. Oops...I'll thin these out as they come up.

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Our home opens up in back to a bike trail with park, and ducks really enjoy the little waterway. Matt took some really great photos with a telephoto-lens. Here's a few photos....baby ducks are so cute, I mean really, seriously, super-duper cute...

Half the time you can't even see their heads, they're too busy eating away!

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Then there's the baby squirrels that were investigating our porch, checking out the bird seed I spilled and just about everything else they can get into. 

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Matt also had his birthday last Friday so we had a grand time celebrating that!
Here is a lemon cake I made for the occasion.
 

New "Happy Birthday" Cards

I love getting mail...especially when it's new cards that I ordered from the printers. 

Here is a new illustrated " Happy Birthday" card featuring a group of rabbit friends throwing
a birthday party and having a grand time eating some cake.

Visit my shop to purchase. Thank you!

Birthday Sale

Today is my birthday!
To celebrate use coupon code "ITSMYBDAY" to receive 20% OFF anything in my shop.
Just use the coupon code in checkout to receive your discount.  Coupon is good for today only!

Have a great sweethearts day! 

*Thank you accomplice-in-life for the wonderful cake*