A Dog-Gone Great Cake!

Several people have asked me for the recipe I used to make Jackson´s birthday cake recently. 

So instead of sending a private message to everyone (this was on facebook) I´ll just put the recipe here and people can try it out...I´m sure your fur babies will love ya for it :-)

Jackson´s Carrot and Peanut Butter Birthday Cake

Bonnibella, my doggies send you lots and lots of wet kisses for that recipe! It will be a birthday favorite for years to come :-)

Otherwise, if you´re wondering what I have been up too. I´ve been very busy. I´ve been to dog shows...admiring adorable dogs and puppies and crossing my fingers for our own little Cookie monster...who did well but not as well as we hoped because of a hair problem we discovered at the show- apparently our Aussie, Jenny, has been playing a bit rough with Cookie (of course Cookie asks for the rough play) and has chewed off some of the hair behind Cookie´s head...so instead of a long mane of hair, she had small spikey hair lengths...of course Cookie loves her new look but the judges....not so much....so now we´ve gotten vitamin tablets and oils and all kinds of things that people with long haired show dogs insist we should have and we´re hoping the hair will come back soon....

I´ve been hanging out with the Captain who is back in town for a few more weeks...of course he´s busy too working on our fence around the property. I try not to interrupt him but every now and then I have to sneak out to get a kiss and just enjoy that he is really here...

This coming week I was suppose to go on a far away adventure with the Captain and a friend, however, the Norwegian health care system decided of all the days to operate on our daughter Julia, it was going to be the two days I was going to go on my far away adventure...which I can´t tell you about just yet but I will soon enough....never the less...Julia is most important and we are hoping her back surgery will allow her to live a normal teenage life again. So keep her in your thoughts this coming Wednesday as that is the day she will be operated on.

Julia and the Captain in Rome, Italy October 2011

I´ve also applied to begin studying for a fagbrev here in Norway which is a shorter education then a University degree but never the less an education. Usually specifically aimed toward a specific job. If I get to do this my study will be incorporated into my work. It´s a project the community is trying out. Several of us from work are going to try this...I´m so glad I won´t be alone. I´m like 100 years old and will be studying in a language that isn´t mine. So to say I´m nervous is an understatement. However, since I am 100 years old I figured it´s time to get some sort of papers that say I´m qualified to something rather then just trying to convince people myself...hahahaha...this will all take place from the fall so cross your fingers for me.

I´m also counting down the days until we hop on a plane and fly off into the bright blue horizon to the Canary Islands for two weeks of sun and fun here:

I´ll be making SOME meals here:

but mostly I´ll be enjoying 2 weeks of sun and fun...The Captain keeps reminding me that it´s not long until the sun is turning and it will start getting darker again. One of the pitfalls of living in Scandinavia...the horrid dark winters. Don´t get me wrong, when the ground is covered in lots of white snow and everything looks magical, it´s beautiful and I enjoy it....for about....2 weeks maybe? But as the years go by I am not appreciating that season as much as I should for one who lives where I do. My dream would be to someday live someplace warm and come back to live in Norway in the summers...it´s fun with dreams don´t you think?

Give the cake recipe a try, your pups will love ya for it and I´ll be back soon! 

Until next time my friends....