Strawbalicious!

Today's Beautiful Thing is a bowl of strawberries, a shortcake cup, a scoop of light vanilla ice cream, cool whip free, and a bit of strawberry syrup. Yes, my friends. It's a low fat strawberry shortcake sundae! Yum, yum, yum!

Another New Member of the Family

Today's Beautiful Thing is my new cousin Joe! Our family is growing by leaps and bounds. Joe, I know you and Kristin are going to have a wonderful life together. Plus, it's always good to have another Navy man in the family. :)

A Wedding

Today's Beautiful Thing is a wedding. Kristin & Joe are getting married today. High school sweethearts, the nurse and the sailor. Awww... and I remember the day she was born. Congratulations to the new Mr. and Mrs.! (How's that for a cool engagement picture?)

Thoughtful Family

Today's Beautiful Thing is my sister-in-law. I stayed home tonight to decorate my cousin's wedding cake, but she sent my hubby home with a plate for me. That was a Beautiful thing to do.

Ready

Today's Beautiful Thing is having all 9 cake layers baked tonight. I can concentrate on decorating tomorrow instead of baking too. :)
(Pictured: the top tier of our wedding cake...14 years later. Yes, I have trouble getting rid of things. I'm just a bit sentimental.)

Freedom

Today's Beautiful Thing is the Columbian Military. Because of their bravery and careful planning, 15 hostages have been released. As I listened to Ingrid Betancourt and the families of Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves, and Thomas Howes speak, I couldn't help but count my blessings. I'm thrilled for all of them.

Help

Today's Beautiful Thing is the helpful staff at my favorite cake shop. I needed some fancy foil to cover the board the wedding cake is going to sit on. They had just the type I needed, in 10 different colors, any size I wanted. I chose a pretty not-too-shiny textured silver (like the board in the photo), and they sold me what I needed for a buck.

(Cake can be found on THIS site)