All American Boy

Its my sweet turkey's birthday and he requested a Captain America cake.  His birthday falls in a month were we have three hockey tournaments, Thanksgiving, two grandparents' birthdays, two cousins' birthdays, numerous hockey games, and a major violin concert for his older brother.  And yes, most of those events fall in the week surrounding his birthday.

I really wanted to take the easy way out and make just a shield cake, but his beguiling eyes begged for a cake with a person on it.

Now, this is not my best cake, but for making it at 11:00 pm after two hockey games, a hockey practice, violin concert and cousin's birthday party all in one day, I am pretty proud of it.  Tomorrow is his party, because, yes, its the only time we have free for weeks.  I hope he loves it when he wakes up to see it, because I sure love him.

And just 'cause I'm the recipe junkie, I have to say, I used Cooqi Cake and Pastry flour to make the white cake (YUM!) and my buttercream recipe for the frosting.  The cake is hand piped (eyeballing a picture).

Ok, I'm toast.  Off to bed for a few hours of sleep before its wake up and repeat... Hockey practice, tournament game, hockey game, birthday party... and maybe some sleep.

Trip By The Numbers

2000 + Photos

3,500 miles driven

1 State Park

4+ National Parks

= 1 wonderful trip

This summer we went on a trip we have been wanting to go on for 10 years.  Last time we were in Yellowstone and Custer was 10 years ago.  We knew we wanted to see Custer State Park, Yellowstone, and the Grand Tetons.  Neither of us had ever been to Grand Tetons and it was one of the things on our bucket list.  Now that we have been there, we can't wait to go back.  Hopefully, it won't take 10 years to get back to there.

Like I said above, I took a TON of pictures, but I thought I'd share a few with you.  I will let the pictures do the talking.  Next time we go I hope I have a better camera then a little pocket point and shoot.  But still, the pictures aren't too bad.