The Cahill's

   I had a wonderful birthday. Starting Friday night I ate a wonderful dinner around a campfire with the family. We cooked corn and apples in the coals, potatoes and brisket finishing out the meal.
  The next day – my actual birthday – we went on a hike and picked dewberries! Ate pizza here at the house, opened gifts and looked at some of my scrapbooks. For our afternoon entertainment Brian beat dad at racket ball and mom at pool. Meanwhile I talked with Brian (the brother) and Stacie on the phone then took racket ball lessons from dad.

We drove in to Tyler and ate at Johnny Carino’s – I wanted Brian to see the cooks at work, quite fascinating.
After the family left Brian took me to the rose garden and we walked among the beautiful bushes.

Brian liked these roses.

We found a baby bird that couldn’t quite fly yet I caught it and it’s little protest alerted it’s nearby mother who attacked Brian – much to my amusement.
 We continued to walk through the bushes (I liked to find the ones that smelled really good) talking and admiring the fountains and ponds. Dusk closed in on us and a few frogs came out to share the path with us. The whole thing was very romantic and I very much enjoyed my first birthday as a married woman.

It all started out quite calmly……..

Saturday Evening:
Amy cooked Brian his favorite meal in honor of our 6 month anniversary (chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes). We had planned on eating the top of our wedding cake after dinner, but Brian ate so much steak that he didn’t have room for anything else.

Sunday Afternoon:
Brian was hard at work studying for some CLEP tests when his hard working brain decided it needed to have some sugar. So, he and Amy broke out their wedding cake top.

Together they cut a piece for Amy. Then Brian proceeded to put a little icing on Amy’s nose while she wasn’t looking. This was payback for when she put icing on him after their wedding. The two happily ate their cake and drank milk while remarking on the jelly filling that they hadn’t gotten to taste on the day of the wedding.

Finishing off a quarter of the cake, they scratched their heads as to what to do with the rest. Brian thought of putting some back into the freezer to save for the one year anniversary (we were originally saving the whole thing for then, but it takes up a lot of room).

Now half of the cake is left, so the happy couple proceeds to dig out the jelly filling and eat it. Brian then innocently takes a big chunk and smears it all over Amy’s face not expecting the quick comeback that would follow.

I’ll spare you all the details, but Brian had a great time and really messed up Amy’s kitchen (and face and hair and ……).

But being the gentleman that he is, he helped her clean up and they are still best friends.

Moral of the story…… don’t wipe icing on your beloveds face at your wedding or you could end up with a face full of cake later on………

       –Brian