Aunt Rebecca

Aunt Rebecca no longer comes home for the entire summer. She is a busy college student taking advantage of all the opportunities that college offers. This is bittersweet. We love her visits, hanging out, talking and her playing with the nieces and nephews. She is still a kid at heart and will run through the sprinklers with them or play tag.

But at the same time I know how she needs to take advantage of a summer job on campus or taking some summer classes. These enrich her life, teach her and allow her to have fun with others her own age. She came home for 2 weeks and we made the most of it. I would have stayed longer, but I had my weekly chemo appointment to keep.

We have discovered this fun restaurant in Bedford. It is actually called the Bedford diner. The food is fresh and all their desserts are baked there. We took a few pictures to remember our trip there.


As I look at this picture, I am quite puffy. Thanks steroids.
We also took some pictures as we were saying our good byes.

Aunt Rebecca's birthday cake!

Some people will do anything for an excuse to eat sweets. Parker loves birthday celebrations. Birthdays used to be big deal in my family, but I think everyone just got busy and we don't make it a big deal anymore. I used to spend hours, (well almost that long) looking for the perfect birthday card to get someone. We would each get the person a card and sometimes a small gift. The family would gather round for cake and ice cream. It was a lot of fun and we made it an excuse to celebrate! I want to do better the next time around.

Anyway, we made a cake and sang happy birthday to Aunt Rebecca. Parker wanted to know when she was coming to our house for her piece of cake. I am still working on that one to explain how far away Utah is.


This is the cake the next morning. Guess what Parker was doing, while Mom was still sleeping. Yep you guessed it, licking the frosting off.

Parker is my wake up call in the mornings. I sleep until he sleeps. Sometimes he gets into mischief life this particular morning. But it gets better. Another morning I awoke to ......
This!! He licked most of it bare. This was after we ate most of the cake.