Feeling Lucky?

In between running Tess around yesterday (Saturday) to an SAT test, prom gown shopping, and an interview for a scholarship to study Turkish in Turkey this summer... I spent the rest of the day making this charming shamrock cake.

Some friends from church have twin sons who will turn 1 year old on St. Patrick's Day. We brought the cake to a church potluck today. It was a big hit! Yay!

We won't hear back about the SAT or interview results for a little while. But, we did score a prom gown! It's slightly too big, so we're going to see about having it altered before the April 3rd prom. But it's very lovely. I'll post photos after the prom.

This afternoon at the church potluck someone gave us some tickets to the last home game of the Alaska Aces hockey team. So we went to take in the atmosphere of Alaska's second most popular sport (after dog-mushing). It was a good time. The Aces won it 7-1 against the Phoenix Roadrunners. During the game, the announcer gave an Iditarod update (Mackey's just about got it in the bag...). He also mentioned that Redoubt had sort of erupted... just a little. But not to worry. If it really blew it's top, we'd all have a big party at the Sullivan Arena, since we'd be stranded there for a while.

Alicia May starts at her new school/daycare tomorrow. We've laid out her clothes and packed her lunch in her Barbie lunchbox (which previously held crayons). She's a little anxious about the whole thing. But she can't wait to eat the healthy lunch we packed. The school is very close to my work. So I'll probably try to swing by there at lunch time just to check on her.