{"id":635,"date":"2008-08-14T23:22:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T04:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=635"},"modified":"2008-08-26T22:24:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:24:37","slug":"brians-birthday-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Brian&#8217;s Birthday Wrap-up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian&#8217;s 32nd birthday was this past Sunday.\u00a0 I invited his family over for dinner on Saturday, so we had a big crowd&#8230; Brian, I &amp; the kids, my parents, his parents and Matthew.\u00a0 We had delicious Spicy Sour Cream Chicken tacos with all the fixins, cheesy Rotel dip and chips, and cake.\u00a0 I mentioned that I had high hopes for the cake&#8230; a yummy peanut butter cup and fudge frosting chocolate cake.\u00a0 Well.\u00a0 It looked like a flop.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t completely cooked, so when it was cooling, it sagged through the rack.\u00a0 I was so disappointed, but I decided to make it into a hot fudge cake.<\/p>\n<p>I made a decadent <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/Recipe\/Sues-Hot-Fudge-Sauce\/Detail.aspx?prop31=6\" target=\"_blank\">hot fudge sauce<\/a>, and we topped it all off with homemade vanilla ice cream.\u00a0 YUM.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t pretty, but man, it was delicious.\u00a0 And we have a nice big container of hot fudge to continue to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/b-32-cake\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Birthday celebration moments&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/daddy-snuggle\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/kids-grandmas\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/kids-grandmas-2\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sunday Brian got to ride to Mount Cheaha to meet us up there.\u00a0 He had a big steak dinner at the beautiful restaurant on top of the mountain.\u00a0 We had a fun time swimming, exploring, hiking, climbing, enjoying my parents, and staying in our great cabin.\u00a0 It was a great birthday!!<\/p>\n<div>The view of the Alabama hills from the restaurant.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/cheaha01-viewfromdinner\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The restaurant overlook.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/cheaha02-overlook-restauran\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The view from Pulpit Rock, a 1 mile hike (round trip) that we did with the kids on Monday morning.<br \/>\nJosiah was so cute&#8230; &#8220;I climin&#8217; a mountin!&#8221; he kept saying.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/cheaha03-view-pulpitrock\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Josiah and I at the overlook on a boardwalk trail we did on Sunday evening.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/cheaha04-josiah-kristine-ba\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We played in Cheaha lake on Sunday afternoon, and it was so warm and very shallow for the kids.<br \/>\nThis is the pool at the Cheaha lodge, and it was deep and COLD, but with a fantastic view.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/cheaha05-pool\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Analise, my little mountain goat.\u00a0 Everywhere she climbed, Josiah wanted toclimb, too.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/cheaha06-exploring\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian&#8217;s 32nd birthday was this past Sunday.\u00a0 I invited his family over for dinner on Saturday, so we had a big crowd&#8230; 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