A Wandering Family: Attack of the Wandering Family!

Steven and Matthew preparing for an assault on America

So yeah, it seems that we are planning a trip to the US a little sooner than we had originally planned. Due to a desire to get Steven into school for first grade next fall, and then the need to hand in our financial statements in April, we've had to reschedule our return for a few months from now. Not ideal, but not the end of the world either. And if you were thinking you'd have to wait for another year to see us, then it's good news to you as well. Or bad news, if you don't like us much, I suppose.

Anyway, it's time for a blog, so here one is. Not much going on, to be honest, except for stuff preparing for our new business and language study difficulties. But you don't want to hear about that. No, you want cute pictures of our boys preferring to sleep on the floor to their beds, and them reading a book as they fall asleep.

But we don't have that many of those pictures. So, thought I to myself, what else do we have some pictures of? Cakes!

Why cakes? I don't know. Ask my wife. After making so many desserts for our guests (we have company at least a couple of times per week, and there's always a homemade dessert of some kind), Bobbie developed kind of a reputation for making delicious cakes. And since there aren't really bakeries here where you can commission a cake, people started asking for her to make one for them. She doesn't ask for much money, just enough to buy the ingredients (she's a much better baker than a businesswoman - that's why I'm in charge of the pine nut business!).

Above is a typical example. Our friends and neighbors were having a birthday celebration, so they asked Bobbie to make them a yurt cake. It's in the shape and decorated as a T yurt. Below you can see the birthday boy blowing out his candle.

The tricky part of the cake was that they wanted it to show the T flag in cross-section when it was cut. Obviously, with a yurt shape there had to be a top section that wouldn't work for a rectangular cross-section, so she did that in chocolate and the rest is the T flag:

This sort of thing has led to a whole slew of "orders," ranging from designs people want Bobbie to draw on their cakes (favorite cartoon characters, etc.):