Where is my spring?

Hello Dear Readers,

Well from a fantastic birthday weekend to a lovely (if low key) weekend retreat in our favorite vacation spot, Cambridge!  The weather was really cold and rainy, and Molly and Katelyn had a mild flu, so we were happy to hang out and relax at home.  Here are Molly and Katelyn playing blocks (this was on the 16th of March, Katelyn's 2nd birthday - can you believe it?) Katelyn was totally into "bridges" that day, and with Molly having a hernia and me being exhausted from house stuff, I thought maybe building a bridge of blocks would be better for everyone. Katelyn agreed.

We went up Thursday night and had a great raw Taco Salad.  Chris and I were running around like crazy all day Friday trying to sort out the solicitor, move money and get a mortgage for our apartment (that's still going strong by the way, just waiting to hear back from the bank).   Friday Chris and I sorted out house stuff and we went to the Daily Bread, our favorite co-op in Cambridge (in the rain).

Saturday, Katelyn's birthday, Molly and I slaved away in the kitchen to make the watermelon cake Katelyn asked for.

Full of artificial colors and Jolly Rancher Watermelon Jell-o powder (did you even know Jolly Ranger MADE jell-o?).  That's jelly to my British readership.  
Here is the amazing, watermelon like result, painstakingly hand iced while Katelyn had her nap:

 Tah-dah! I thought it tasted pretty amazing, but probably only because I allowed myself to have a.) dairy and b.) cake which I haven't' done since I started my super duper work-out double whammy of P90X and Insanity.  I'm finished with both by the way, phew! and not a moment too soon as I've been laid up pretty much all this week with whatever flu/cold Molly and Katelyn had.  Kids make me sick,apparently, but then I WAS wiping her nose all weekend, so it was inevitable.

 Much to Molly's joy however, Katelyn wasn't as taken with this cake as I was, reassuring her that she won't be a little sugar fiend :-).  That's her "I don't want it" face, a phrase she's making more and more use of as she enters her terrible twos.  She was a perfect angel when we went to the restaurant that night, and even let Chris carry her back to the car on her shoulders. He's practicing for being an uncle to my sister's  kid......

Despite having a horrific cold I managed to head down to the river (in the freezing SNOW! Yes snow in London after March 20th!)  to watch my brother's scrimige against the other boats foolish enough to go on the river even though the International Men's Head of the River Race was cancelled today.  He wanted me to get some footage of them racing. As usual I couldn't tell which boat was his, so I filmed them all.  I hope he appreciates the lenghts I went to in the SNOW and freezing COLD while I have the FLU. That brother does not deserve me.  Sigh.  But I found the perfect sewater that I just HAVE to knit for him in this month's The Knitter's magazine. Clearly I'm a gllutton for punishment.  And cake. Delicious, non-vegan naughty watermelon cake.  MMMmmmm, made the whole trip worth it.

Staying in bed all weekend with my knitting, spinning and watching Star Wars IV, V and VI to speed my recovery, as well as eating most of the soups off of the Oh She Glows website. So far I've done a creamy mushroom and quinoa and triple lentil recovery soup.  Hoping for tortilla soup tonight if Chris can be persuaded to make it for me, I'm too tired to get out of bed again.  Well, except maybe to pursue some more Assasin's Creed III, I need to finish it before the next one comes out!

Hope you are having as much snow as we are here, I love love love it, so I'm not complaing.

Cheers.