Excited for her Birthday Cookies ...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00647

This year has brought the rise of drive by birthdays or birthday parades going by people’s homes. Well, this Saturday we are having one for Eva’s birthday. We had attended one a ways back for a friend of Andy’s and they gave out goodie bags to everyone that had a cookie inside. It was a store bought frosted cookie and was tasty enough but I got the idea to make Eva’s birthday parade special for everyone that came.

We were going to get cookies made by Mrs. Packer. Mrs. Packer cookies are famous at the school events. She does incredible work and we hired her to take the playbill for Percy Jackson – The Lightning Thief the Musical and make them cookies. When I picked them up today I was thrilled with how amazing they turned out. Eva was even more excited. She was blown away by the work and the detail. I cannot wait to see what people think about them tomorrow.

We’re going to do some very special ones for Andy’s birthday parade as well.

We had one extra cookie included and we split it last night. It was amazing!. You can see more of the cookies that Mrs. Packer makes on her instagram at @dp_cookeez and the DP Cookeez Website.

Review: Lumibricks Izakaya Building ...

The folks from Lumibricks sent me their latest building set, the Izakaya for free to build and review. Opinions are 100% my own. I've built a few sets from Lumibricks (formerly FunWhole) in the past and they are really fun and interesting. The photo above is of the Izakaya and also The Apartment. they are both part of a Cyberpunk theme called Neoncity. At this time there are also two additional buildings that you can build and add to this whole theme, the Game Stack and the Floating Train Station. The great things about these sets is that they light up. As you build you are also adding lights and wires and ways to illuminate the amazing build. Once you're done building you fire up some power and the lights blaze up. With Neoncity sets you get some incredible Nenon effects light signs and even neon tube lights. That is one of the coolest things about these sets is how the lights are incorporated into the build. Some very innovative bricks were made in order to thread the wiring...

Christmas Tree Is Up ...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02510 Yesterday we put up the trees and today we decided to decorate the tree after dinner. Our tree is now mostly our family photo ornaments. We have a bunch of ornaments but with over 20 years of family photo ornaments it look like the predominant ornament type that we'll see. We did get a 2025 Hallmark one as well and I have to select this year's photo.

2025 Family Ornament ...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02515 We put our tree up the other day and I had already bought the 2025 Hallmark Keepsake ornament for our yearly family photo ornament. I love these ornaments on the tree. We have them from 2005 to now.

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