The Cake

We made an appointment for our cake before anything happened with Dave. Which, if anyone is interested in doing something in his memory, his family has asked, that everyone make a donation to VH1's Save the Music Foundation. Shane's band, Rid of Waste, did a concert at The Sterling Hotel the night of the funeral to raise money for the foundation in Dave's name. I think they raised a decent amount, but I'm not sure how much was raised.

So, on Sunday Ryan, Robin,and I went to Bangor (insert joke here), to see what kind of a cake we could get. When we got to Donna Race Freeby's house (the cake lady), she had a collage of the different cakes she has made and we all got a plate with the flavors she has to offer.

We eventually decided on an Almond and Chocolate cake with almond filling (which BTW, if you are allergic to nuts, or know someone who is, let me know and we will change the flavor). The cake will look similar to the cake to the left, with the pillars and the champagne glasses in the middle, but it will also have the snowflake design to the right, but the snowflakes will be a light blue color.

Our Friend

Ryan came up Saturday night and told me Erin had called but his phone needed to be charged and he couldn't listen to the message she had left. It was late and we figured she was probably calling to ask to hang out and since Ryan was in the Poconos already we knew it was too late.

Sunday morning he call her up, she told him that our friend Dave had died in his sleep on Friday night. He was at a bar that night with a few friends, he came home, and just never woke up. He's just turned 33 (Rolling Rock, in his words.) They are doing an autopsy on him today. I'm not sure about funeral stuff yet, when I know I'll post it in the comment section, in case anyone would like to go.

Sorry for not posting wedding stuff, we just weren't much in the mood this week, and it didn't seem right.

Here is a picture from a happy time, last year at Ripper's in Bethlehem.

Hola!

With Robin's surgery this week (check out her blog to hear how the hospital messed that up) we didn't do a whole lot of wedding stuff this week. Although after her surgery, Robin has been busy putting together the perfect wedding invitation for us, even though she is in pain. Thank you Robin!

Personally, my favorite of the ones she's done so far has this as the art work, but Robin thinks its not going to come out right, oh well.


Also, we did put a bid on the house on Saturday. We haven't heard anything back from her yet. I don't know if that is good or bad. It took about two hours of inital here, sign here stuff. We got the disclosure statement from the people who currently own the house. It said that the house has asbestos siding. Apparently, this was used in a lot of houses before the 1980's. Jack is saying to withdraw the bid, but Matt doesn't think it's a big deal. Ryan and I kind of feel the best case scenario, it will be VERY hard to sell. Worst case scenario, we could go into huge debt replacing the siding. I love the house, but I'm not sure I want to deal with that.