Ben's birthday weekend!

I made a cake! It's the white chocolate layer cake from my Southern Cakes cookbook. It looked pretty and tasted nice, but I personally found the white chocolate flavor to be a little lacking. Luckily, plain white cake with white icing is Ben's favorite anyway, so it worked out! And thank goodness his parents were here to help us eat it! :-)We all went to the arch on Friday morning. We had gorgeous weather on Friday and Saturday. We looked at the building where Ben used to work (the red one!).
And we oohed and aahed over the arch, of course!
Then we all rode to the top! I did get in, after I took this picture. :-)
We looked at the stadium (where we would be later that evening) from above
Then we went to Laclede's Landing and walked around. And gambled in the Lumiere Casino (for all of about 5 minutes, which is how long it took us to lose $10). Ben's mom won $1, though! :-) We also went to lunch afterwards. My picture-taking was a little spotty!

Cause later that evening, we went to the baseball game! Army people parachuted in--so awesome.
The Cardinals won in the last inning--also awesome! Unless you're a Cubs fan like Benjamin. Poor Benjamin.
On Saturday, among other things, we walked around Ben's campus. Very pretty.
We did lots of other fun things during the weekend too--like go the Busch family home, eat lots of yummy food, get stuck in traffic near the balloon race, etc. :-) Maybe I'll get some more pictures to share later, but it was a wonderful weekend. We so enjoyed having guests!