My Birthday

Isn't this the cutest cake? Saturday while Mike was at an auction, the kids made me stay in my studio while they baked me a cake. I love the way they decorated it with Playmobil guinea pigs eating out the words "Happy Birthday Mom". I was yummy too!
So yesterday was a good day. It had to be the coldest birthday I've had...only about 65 degrees. But it was a beautiful day to be out. At Henry Vilas Zoo my favs are the capybaras and the prairie dogs. so cute!

Then we had lunch and did some shopping. I found a novel I've been wanting. Unfortunately I couldn't wait and I stayed up most of the night reading the book! So I'm moving a bit slow today *Yawn*

Gotta get moving. Today is the last day of summer vacation for Emma and Ethan. School starts tomorrow and we still need to get a few things.
remember ......

critters

Since I wasn't blogging for a few months I never got to introduce Bandit, our new guinea pig. We got this cutie back in September. He's a bit more skittish than Patch. Bandit is hard to photograph becuase he seems to be afraid of the camera!
With a second GP, we needed a bigger cage. I made this one using ideas from Cavy Cages.
It was very easy to make. I used coated wire cube shelf pieces from Target, zipties (cable ties) and coroplast (sign plastic). We have storage underneath and the little guy are off the floor so it isn't as drafty for them. Oh, the paper sign is in dragon runes and it says "Here be guinea pigs". *grins*
This is Emma's budgie named Echo. He's very sweet and friendly. We are accumulating quite a bunch of critters!