Cakes, Strawberries and More

This last week we went to Columbia Park to feed the ducks and geese. Claire loved it...until one of the geese decided Claire wasn't throwing the bread fast enough and bit it right out of her hand. That startled her, but she recovered and we've been back since. She asks to feed the ducks almost every day.
This past weekend we attended a birthday party for Claire's cousin Katelynn. Bryan, Lois and I made her birthday cake. It is only our third cake we've made out of fondant. We are excited how it turned out. Here is a picture looking down from the top of the cake.
Here is a picture of the cake with the Hello Kitty and #2 topper on the cake. I think it turned out good. Thanks Wendi for teaching me how to make the fondant!
Claire loved watching us make the cake for Katelynn so much so that she wanted to make her own cake. We saved her some of trimmings off the cake and let her frost and cover it with fondant.
Then she got to put fondant polka-dot on it. She loved it.
Then she wanted to put the sugar pearls on the cake. Just like Lois and I put on Katelynn's.
Here she is with her finished product.
This year we decided to plant a garden. So a few weeks ago we ripped out some grass and planted some onions, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, summer squash and strawberries.
Claire has been really excited to check the garden each day to see if anything is growing. It is exciting to see things start to grow. The carrots have popped up out of the ground and the are flowers on the strawberries. We got reap the benefits of our labors this week. We let Claire do the honors of picking the first treasures of our garden.
There hasn't been many warm days lately, but the other day it was just nice enough to pull out Claire's swimming pool. Here is the first pictures of the Summer Pool pictures. Claire loves to swim so I am sure we'll have a few of these this year.