Monday, July 30, 2012

Getting Ready for the Big Birthday!


It's great that the kids can help out with the birthday prep! (And they were really excited to help out!) We stuffed Easter eggs with little lizards for the guests to find and take home. We also filled the goodie boxes and Pops ordered a lizard pinata off eBay - what a lucky girl!!!


Our birthday tradition is for me to make the birthday child their special request cake on their birthday. In the past, I've made chocolate cake with strawberry jam in the middle and frosted with buttercream icing - since Ellena didn't really have much of an opinion on what kind of cake she liked when she was younger. Her main concern was what color the frosting was going to be. This year, she specifically asked for pumpkin cake with purple frosting, M&Ms and sprinkles. Okaaaaaaayyy... did some research and found a recipe for pumpkin cake and it came out really good! And I got the cake done a day early, so we could spend the entire day celebrating the special girl!

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