Here is Chasey with his SpongeBob cake as promised. This whole posting pictures thing is more complicated than I thought so don't expect too many unless John is here to hold my hand through the process.

Last night we had Chasey's birthday party. It was a casual affair with Grandma and Aunt Katie visiting on the way to the MTC (Katie will be serving a mission in Long Beach, CA). We also invited two families from our neighborhood, the Hagars and the Henschieds as well as our good friends in the ward the Simpsons. The SpongeBob cake was a smashing success. John did a great job and I will post pictures as soon as I figure out how.

Chase has informed us that he wants a SpongeBob Squarepants cake for his birthday. Hopefully with the combined skills of John and I as chief designer/decorator and baker/materials acquisition specialist respectively we will be able to pull it off.

After eight years of marriage and at least 17 years of chocolate chip cookie baking I think I have finally perfected the art and achieved the Platonic form of the chocolate chip cookie. The following recipe consistently yields soft, chewy, rave-worthy results. They never turn out too flat, too greasy, or too crunchy.

I love my husband dearly and am so grateful he has dragged me kicking and screaming into the 21st century.