CJ has been enrolled at UW Tacoma for his junior and senior college years, and it has been a mostly wonderful experience. It's a nice, urban campus that isn't too enormous, and the class sizes are nice and small compared to many other colleges. The campus is in the museum district of Tacoma, with lots of interesting things to see and do.
It's nice to have at least one really solid college option on the horizon.
The photo above is about 13 or so years old, I'm guessing. It was no doubt taken on a Saturday when the Ducks were playing the Huskies in college football.
CAKING IT: I'm behind on posting our Birthday Dreams cakes (along with everything else, ha ha).
Our most recent creation was for a 10-year old who loves space and STEM (science, math, engineering and technology). We made a galaxy cake (airbrushed by Annabelle) with a rocket on it and a big ol' robot on top.
His name was on the body of the rocket, but I've obscured it for anonymity.
We hope he enjoyed the custom creation.
Our December Birthday Dreams cake was a first for us. The teenager wanted something related to her love of Shopkins.
To be honest, we'd not delved into the world of "Shopkins" until we signed up for this cake. It turns out it's a world where cartoon versions of "micro scales of real brands from the supermarket" live, according to Shopkins' website.
After poking around a bit, it seemed like their character "Cupcake Queen" was a good cake topper candidate. Annabelle made an adorable, edible version.
We put the teen's name front and center, in the Shopkins style/font. (As always, the child's name is changed in this photo to protect anonymity.)
Truth be told, delivery is always a hold-your-breath endeavor. So many hours go into these cakes, and so much could go so wrong in a split second during transport.
