GaGa's Day!

Today is my dad's birthday (Happy Birthday again GaGa!), and we went out to eat this past Friday at the Elite to celebrate his upcoming day.  

I'm not entirely sure what was happening here in this picture, although it appears to be some form of the Squish-Your-Brother game that has become so highly popular in smaller European communities.

On Saturday, a good group of "us" went to see the circus!!!  While I'm trying to find the time to get pictures up of this mucho fun event, I wanted to show GaGa that Poodle really was the one who designed and decorated his cupcakes.  She even picked out the colors.  ::grin::

Of course, she had the proper grown-up help with the baking of the cupcakes and with the application of the crumb coat of the icing.  But the cupcake bling was all her doing.

The birth of this idea was this conversation:
"I want to make something special for GaGa".
"He loves when you make him pictures".
"No that's not special enough".
"Ummm......  I don't know - cupcakes?"
(internal groan.  I, too late, realize what I just committed myself to).
"Ooooh!  Yes - cupcakes!  And they can have purple icing with orange stripes, and Mommy, I'll do the icing for GaGa's cupcakes.  Yay cupcakes!"


And MooMoo and GaGa ate the cupcakes despite the copious amounts of sugar on top.  Grandparents are beautiful things!