What a weekend :)

This weekend started off with some baking on Friday. I made an orange and sweet potato cake. It is a recipe I got from Matt's Dad's wife Katy :)

It's a great recipe! All you do is use a box of orange cake mix, but instead of adding 11oz of oil and 2 cups of water you just add a tin of sweet potatoes with their juices. Add 3 eggs and hey presto you have a cake batter. The final result is scrumdiddlyumptious!! So a big thank you to Katy for giving me this recipe.

If any of my europe friends/family want to try it but can't get the orange cake/sweet potatoes just let me know and I'll send you some: that's how good this stuff is!!!

Friday night Matt took me to the circus for date night :) I think I might have annoyed him singing the childrens song "you've got to be strong to work in the circus"

He bought me candy floss and popcorn. Isn't he the best!

Saturday morning I dropped Matt off at the airport, he's in Utah for the week at a conference. So I found myself driving to a town 30 minutes away to buy some mushy peas, heinz baked beans, marmite and hob nobs! I had this for dinner, it was awesome!

Sunday morning I headed out to the horse show. I don't know how they grade showing over here, but from what I could tell it was a novice competition, the jumps were pretty lame and the riding left something to be desired, but it was fun to be around horses and here the talk of horsey competition going on. It's made me even more excited to start riding again. I found myself mentally urging the competitors to 'get more impulsion', 'have the horse focus on the jump, not outside of the ring' etc....

Today the carpet is being replaced in the bedroom :) Then, when that is done, I'm going to take the dogs out for a long walk through some trails.

Penny isn't eating again and I may have to make an appointment at the vets for her to make sure everything is ok. She has kidney/bladder issues and I want to make sure it's nothing to do with that.

I swear I don't have munchausen by proxy!!!!!!