Birthday pictures

Josiah, Charity, Sammy and me

Here is the cake Charity made me

Me and Paul

Here is the teeter totter at that cool park, you can see some of the other unconventional toys in the background. Its a pretty neat park.

Birthdays!

My Birthday was in August and Paul's was in September. So these pictures are a little late but better late then never I guess. So, for Paul's birthday I cooked him dinner, we went out to ice cream and I made him a cake. This cake took two jars of frosting to make, because it was double layered and I frosted the top then it crumbled so instead of leaving it in bits I decided to use the frosting as glue, I frosted up the cracks then flipped it over and frosted the other side, It was way too sweet! We both ate a small piece, then we had it in our fridge for like a month before we finally threw it away because it was just too much frosting to take. But I got good pictures of it and you would never be able to tell!

For my birthday in August me and Paul went to dinner, but we don't have any pictures of my actual birthday, however, the day after my birthday my sister threw a party for me. She made me an amazing cake, it was chocolate with cherries and whip cream on it, and she made everything minus the chocolate from scratch, I know.. How domestic! but the best part was that the she didn't put in all the sugar that a normal cake has. So it was just sweet enough but not overpowering and I didn't gain five pounds from eating it! So that is always a plus! Also, as part of my party my sister and her family took me and Paul to a surprise location, She code named it "twisted metal" me and Paul were a little worried what "twisted metal" could be, but it turned out to be a really cool new park in town. The concept of centrifugal force is implemented into all the toys so there is a teeter totter made for grown ups that is like a judges scale and one person sits on each side. I'll put a picture of it on here. There are also these "twisted" metal things that you can climb inside of and your body weight spins you around, there are so many other cool toys, not to mention that you can enter the park through a hole in the rock climbing wall that goes onto a rope bridge and leads to an amazingly tall slide. So, to sum it up my birthday and Paul's birthday were awesome!

Sewing Fun!

So, about two months ago I found out that the Wal-mart in Bloomington has a huge selection of fabrics for $1, so I went a little crazy and bought 20 yards... the first time, then I went back and bought 8 more, I had some grand Ideas of what to do with all of it and so far my plans are falling into action! :)
I started with a couch cover, the original couch covering is mustard yellow and has survived Paul's family of eight kids, two parents and a cat, not to mention that it has sat countless buns of friends and other family members, and yes even mine before I was a member of the Tharp clan. So, needless to say it needed a face lift, so I took the measurments, drew up the pattern on a piece of paper, started cutting, pinning a sewing and soon it was done! Well almost, I need to sew two more sides, but it is presentable. So that was my first grand project and it only cost me $8 to make!