phew. back to a normal form of posting. and yahoo, 2 posts in 1 day!
I have been messing around all day on flickr and photoshop and learning quite a bit. Flickr isn’t the scary beast it once was, but we are still not the type of friends that would go out and have drinks after work. But i thought I would post a few more pictures from my birthday weekend because, well, why not?
That is Mur and I. This is actually from Jan 30th, but because I started taking pictures at about 10pm to ensure I remembered my birthday, I got some more ‘natural’ photos of us being, well, us {aka nutty}… there are many more where this came from but these were my 2 favorites.
…. on to the birthday…
As I think I mentioned, mur came up and we went and camped/cabined at William O’Brien State park near Stillwater, MN. It was a GOR-GEOUS day! {Regardless of what Rene in Texas says… :)} I had the window rolled down, I was running around in a light fleece sweatshirt and we even had lunch on our cabin’s porch. Couldn’t ask for better weather on January 31st. After lunch I insisted I take some photos and {I think just because it was my birthday} Mur obliged. The photo above and the photo in the previous post are examples of that. I think together with the photo from 2 posts ago (via my drive to work) I have a fun trilogy of images I’m going to do something with.
After camping/cabining, it was Super Sunday! We came back to my house to eat loads of food and drink oodles of beer. Then my dad sprung THIS bad boy on us!
It was AMAZING! It is a flour-less chocolate torte. I’m pretty sure the recipe is via a cookbook I gave my dad ages ago. I will always love his chocolate obsession and my lack of gift creativity resulting in an excess of cookbooks for the holidays.
This is just a fun photo. This torte goes delightfully well with Espresso, another one of my dad’s most favoritest things in the world {right behind Roux}. It was overall a very delightful birthday and thank you to those who sent wishes!!!
And I’m out – time to shut down the work computer and head home for the day. Thank goodness!