update

just a little update. i know i said a while back that seth and i were going to try a new recipe once a week. well, we are failing royally at this.

seth's birthday was (wow almost 2 weeks ago) february 8th. i made him biscuits and gravy for breakfast.


i made this for him 4 years earlier (when i wasn't even sure if he liked me but i was crashing on his couch hoping he did) and it was terrible. i had never made gravy before. well. this time was a little better. i really should have practiced sometime in the last 4 years since this is seth's favorite breakfast but i didn't and the gravy turned out ok but i undercooked the biscuits. boo. regardless, it was fun waking up with him, eating breakfast and opening his gifts.


i got him this awesome set of vintage science encyclopedias and a clock to add to his clock collection.

on friday we went out to eat with friends to celebrate his birth and since every celebration should have a cake, i made my february cake.


nothing special. yellow cake with chococlate frosting and sprinkles. it tasted rather delightful but i didn't leave myself enough time to get fancier with the decorations so i have come to the conclusion that i need to do some practicing before my next cake.



since then we have also celebrated valentine's day.


i made seth cookies and got him this print off etsy.


seth got me the above (oh so pretty) dragon's bone and book i had been eying from Birdie. what great gifts!

we celebrated by going to benvenuti's (only the best high-class* italian in town. *i included high-class because victoria's is up there, it's just more down-to-earth italian).

beyond this our time has consisted of trying to figure out what we are doing with our lives, trying to get porter trained, and hanging out with our friends. hopefully we'll fit a new recipe in there sometime soon.