Turkey Dessert

I saw this cake a while ago and wanted to try it out, so here is my version of a turkey cake!



Here is another fall themed cake I did last week for a 90th birthday:

Holiday Shopping

I thought I would post this in hopes that some of you may take advantage of this easy way to shop and donate to CHERUBS at the same time! The best part is the donation doesn't cost you anything! If you are planning on doing some Christmas shopping online anyway, please consider doing this!

Donate to CHERUBS for free just by shopping in over 700 stores through goodshop.com!

If you shop on-line, please consider shopping through Goodsearch.com for CHERUBS.

Just go to http://www.goodshop.com/?charityid=856932

You can shop on Amazon, Target, Sears, Wal-Mart, ToysRUs, and over 700 other stores just like you normally would, but the stores will donate a percentage of your shopping total to CHERUBS. It does not cost you a penny. If you're going to shop on-line for the holidays, why not give to a great cause at the same time! :)

Bowl-A-Thon

I've been meaning to post a quick update on how the bowl-a-thon went! This is what I posted on the New England CHERUBS Blog:

The Bowl-A-Thon fundraising event was a huge success! We had over 50 people in attendance, including 6 CHERUBS families and 3 beautiful cherubs themselves! We succeeded in beating our fundraising goal, but best of all were able to have fun and spread some CDH Awareness to the local bowlers. The staff were very interested in what we were raising money for, and asked us to come back next year to make it an annual event

A big thank you to all who participated and to all those who sponsored the event!

Makayla Update

We brought Makayla up to see her pediatritian today for her 9 month check up. She weighed in at 20 lbs even, and 29 inches long! She is right on target coming in on the 75th percentile in height and 50th percentile for weight. Everything is progressing on target and she was given the ok to start fazing out the baby food and move on to table food! It's so scary, I feel like she is growing sooo fast!

Here's a couple of pictures from our Christmas card photo shoot :)

Gabriel's Birthday

Happy Birthday my little angel. I miss you sooo much it hurts to breath, I still can't believe you would be 2 years old today. Instead of celebrating with cake and presents, I have to visit your stone and pray that you hear me. It is still so hard to go there, and I wish I went more often. I just can't even begin to describe the emotions that eat at my heart when I think about forever without you. My little baby angel, I would give up anything just to have one more day with you.

Baby why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go?
I was counting on forever, now I'll never know
I can't even breathe
It's like I'm looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying, he's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream
-Carrie Underwood

Gabe's birthday cake

Today I am working on getting ready for the bowl-a-thon tomorrow. I just finished the cake and wanted to share it.

Here it is:

New England CHERUBS Blog

I have created a blog to keep everyone updated on whats going on with CHERUBS locally. I am still working on putting it together but you can check it out at:

http://newenglandcherubs.wordpress.com

Eat Cake

Today I made a baby shower cake for a close friends sister. I really enjoyed making it and everyone seemed to really like it at the shower. As I look around for a job since it is near impossible to be a stay at home mom in todays world... I keep thinking this is what I need to do! I know It's something I'm pretty good at, if I can just get my business going... So I have made it my mission! By the end of this year I plan on having my business plan written out. I need a game plan on what I am going to do with my life. I hate the insecurity of the unknown. This week I am going to call the health department and start figuring out what I need to do to become licensed in Rhode Island. Than will be the search for an industrial kitchen to rent until I can get my own shop going. This is something I really need to do for myself!

Here is the cake I made for the shower today. The design was a bit of each element taken off of different cakes and pulled together by the mother-to-be's sister and mom. It's nice to be able to make thier cake vision come to life :)

Nana

Tonight I found out that my Nana (my great-grandmother) passed away. She hasn't been doing very well lately and having a lot of health problems, and I know she is in a better place where she isn't suffering. Still doesn't make losing her any easier though.

I have many very fond childhood memories of my Nana. She will be greatly missed. I brought Makayla up to meet her a few months ago, not realizing it would be the last time I got to see her.

Memorial service, gift bags, bowl-a-thon

Last sunday we went up to Mass General's memorial service for all the children lost. It really was a beautiful, touching, and very emotional service. It is so difficult to go back to the hospital, but at the same time I find peace in doing so.

While we were there we dropped off our first 2 gift bags! I am very excited to be able to finally have some of these bags put together and ready to go out to give to parents who may need them! If you are wondering what I am talking about check out more info on the Gabriel's Giftbag Project here: http://gabriel-nava.virtual-memorials.com/main.php?action=view&mem_id=8297&page_no=6

Next weekend we have Gabriel's Bowl-A-Thon planned. I really hope that it will be a success. I can't believe Gabe would be 2 years old already. It's crazy to think about how time flies by! I really hope he knows how much I love him and still think about him everyday. I miss my little guardian angel.

Here are a couple pictures of the gift bags we delivered.

Halloween

I think that I am going to start giving updates and posting Ayla's pictures here rather than on her website since I have run out of file space on her website and don't want to have to pay :( So here are a few Halloween pictures from last week.