I had to pop back in for a recipe and noticed HOW LONG it has been since I have made a post here!  I am looking forward this weekend to a family reunion!  All the kids and grands will be here....couldn't be more excited!  The new craze is Instant Pot.  I'm gathering recipes and plan to make 4 doz hard boiled eggs in it tomorrow for the 'crowd' next week. All for now!!

Celebrating Love.....

Ben and Kelsey had a beautiful wedding this weekend and the following day, we celebrated the folks 48th wedding anniversary.  Brian and Kristin joined a host of aunts and uncles and cousins along with Andy and Anna and the kids.  It was a great weekend!

I had the privilege of baking the cakes for the festivities.  We took 10 sheet cakes to the wedding and a small wedding cake for them to cut for the photos.  That was a first for me.  I showed Kelsey a few photos of cakes decorated with a rose design.  I have done 'rose' cupcakes before but not a cake.  I watched a how to Youtube a few minutes before I decorated it.  I sprinkled on a few groupings of pearl candies (which do not show in the photo).  They were pleased with it and that is all that matters.  =)

 I was thankful that I ordered boards and boxes to transport all the cakes.  They had planned on having the cakes cut in 30 pieces each, but the caterers cut them in the traditional 48 pieces.  They had four cakes left.  I made 5 marble and 5 white almond wedding cakes.  The rose cake was also white almond wedding cake and I made it into 4 layers (cutting each oval in half with floss) so it would be taller.

 I had some batter left over from the marble cakes so I made a marble sheet cake to take to the anniversary and frosted it with chocolate frosting.  The anniversary cake is also white almond wedding cake.  I used that recipe to make Annette and Chris' cupcakes a couple years ago.  That recipe is on here, I'm pretty sure.  This was all buttercream frosting.  The cupcakes had a whipped frosting.  Both are really good.  Karen (Wilhelm), Kristin and I frosted all the cakes on Friday.  That worked well.  We had 10 sheets frosted by noon.  I then frosted the wedding cake and baked the last sheet cake for the anniversary and frosted it with white and the palest of pink roses.  Lots of memories made this weekend... 

Another Night Without Sleep.....

Michael is spending another night without sleep.  This happens about every two weeks or so.  He had been doing pretty good the past couple of weeks, so was hoping it was stretching out a little.  We were thankful we didn't have trouble during our trip to SC last week.  We have an appointment next March at the Epilepsy Center at the Med Center in Omaha to check for frontal lobe seizures.  His pulse rate at 10 pm was 110 and now at 5 am is still 90.  Blood pressure was 134/90 and now 126/98.  Sure wish we knew what is causing this........  Thankfully no seizures since the last seizure post here.  Grateful for that.   *update...finally fell asleep at 5:30 am.....

Thought I lost my blog...

It has been a great while since I logged in to my blog.  I hate to lose my old friend and need to do a better job...for sure!!  This has been an old friend over the years and a great way to 'remember' when things have happened.  It has been over a year, but cute farmer is doing great and I want to keep track of that.  We are so grateful for that answer to prayer!!!

We had a great Christmas and looking forward to what the Lord has in store for the new year!! 

Seizure Again....

Again, another seizure.  Like last time, Michael complained of an upset tummy and didn't eat well for breakfast yesterday morning.  He ate lunch at work (pizza and sprite) and stayed with me at work until I got off.  We came home and I fixed what he had asked for....grilled chicken, baked potato and corn.  He only ate the chicken.  We had talked about giving him a "Prevacid" for his tummy.  I did and he headed up to bed.  At about 10:35 you could hear he started to have a seizure in bed.  I think it was showing itself all day in how he felt.  Another call to the Dr. on Monday.  Will we just up the meds more or add another one??  We will find out.  Poor guy, sure hate seeing him go through these..

Seizure this morning....

Bummer....time to call the Dr.  Michael had a seizure in the car on the way to work.  He has taken all his meds.  Must be time to add something.  I doubt we can really up this one anymore.  I think he is at about the top in his blood level.  Will be praying for answers for him........

This haunts me....have I stressed the importance of this to those I care about?....