Today we received a ridiculous amount of rain in an incredibly short amount of time which made flooding inevitable! Yards, streets, homes, businesses flooded and people being stranded in cars and homes...pretty scary stuff! Lucky for us it was just our back yard and front yard and they went down when we got a short break...it rained from about 3am-noon with a short break and then some more after that...what a mess! We have had record breaking weather this year with blizzards this past winter, spring storm with record breaking hail and now this record breaking rainfall there are parts of Edmond reporting 11+ inches of rain. I hope we are not headed for a record breaking heat wave to top it all off that would not be pleasant! I tried to get a few pictures without getting drenched and there was much more water than what I took pictures of I just wasn't willing to get that wet:)
luckily our backyard slopes downhill...these were a couple of the streams of water racing down to the bottom of the yard
the bottom of the yard...it made for some great puddle stomping when the rain let up and the water level went back down
Dalton thought it would be a good idea to bake a cake...he likes the frosting part! We had been talking about doing it for a couple of days and since today we were stuck inside it worked out just great...daddy worked from home today so he got to enjoy the cake too! We decided to have a pretend birthday party!...we still had left over plates, hats, etc and a couple of Dollar store finds for presents. At first it was going to be mommy's birthday if I would share the cake and of course it eventually ended up being Dalton's...surprise surprise! We...uhm Dalton couldn't decide if he wanted cake or cupcakes so he finally went with cupcakes for him and cake for daddy so that's what we did! He helped mix the batter and mix the fantastic frosting his picks again...orange, blue and purple! He really digs mixing two colors like the blue and red to get purple he was so proud he took it in the living room to show daddy...and thank goodness the purple frosting didn't end up on the floor!
the best and worst part about baking cakes
cakes and cupcakes...yummo
dalton sitting after dinner listening to mommy and daddy singing Happy pretend birthday to Dalton...he even got to open 2 presents...a Nemo puzzle and some Toy Story 3 stickers...he kept saying thank you mommy...apparently the birthday party made his day
trying to blow out the candles...not having much luck
daddy to the rescue...he got them blown out this time...notice his overalls...they are part of his Bob the Builder costume...we played Bob the Builder and Wendy earlier today and built skyscraper buildings and pounded away with our hammers to fix them up
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Fun stuff! Csrter caught me looking at this "What's that? Did Dalton get to eat the cake? A pretend party? It was raining out?" Well, it's raining here right now, so I'm just waiting for the next question that'll probably be asked...can we do that today?
ReplyDeleteYou are a great mommy to getall that going out of the blue :)