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Birthday Bummer!

Hey all! How are you all? I have had much better days. After all of the prep and working so hard on Maddie's 1st birthday cake, we had a no show for the party. Mom was the only person who showed up and I think that was just because she knew that no one else had come. She called me and I told her that no one showed, so 2 hours late, she came over. I was happy that some one was there with Maddie when she had her cake. This was the first step in the decorations. I chose purple, pink, orange and yellow decorations.
And for step two, I added accents to the flowers and bodies to the butterflies.
Then baked and iced the cake in light blue icing. I then let it sit and crust over so that I could smooth it over.
Add the second layer, ice it, let it crust. Smooth it over, add the grass border to both layers. I really liked this effect.
I did the final finishing touches to the cake by adding the butterflies and flowers to the cake and the cake board. I then wrote Happy 1st Birthday Maddie on the board by the cake. I sure was happy with the result. A close up of the cake. Now you can see a little better what it looked like. I sure do hope that Maddie will like it at this point!The birthday girl. Isn't she so cute! I love you Maddie and I know that no one showed up, but we have lots of pics of you and you will know that mommy loves you so very much! I did all this for you not for the people we invited. There will be other birthdays where you will have your friends. Crazy girls! They love their balloons!
WHAT A HAMMMMMMM! Kenzie totally loved posing for a pic in the balloons! I couldn't resist putting this one in here! "Mommy, why didn't they come to my party?" "It's my party and I'll pout if I want to" I think both of those would sum up the look on her face here! Priceless.
What a difference a balloon will make! She loves balloons. She talked to them for ages!
More balloons! I love ballooons!The balloon Baby!
Cake Time! Mmmmmmmmmm!Mommy, this is so yummy. Why did I have to wait a year for it?
She was totally enjoying her cake. Look at the hand in the mouth!
Mmmmm! More cake!
I am getting full Mommy!Ooooooh. Ice Cream! Yummy!
Look a clean baby! She had a bath right after the cake! She really needed it!
Would you look at that hair! It was insane!
So now off to the rest of the happenings. Not much going on. Now that the birthday party is over, I will be planning some landscaping outside to keep me busy. I can't wait to get that project started. Kenzie is out of school, so I need to come up with some stuff to keep her eyes off of the tv. She just wants to watch it all the time. Maddie is Maddie. What can I say about her. Ryan is busy with Maxx. Golfing, Pool, etc. And I guess that sums our life up in a nutshell. Talk to everyone later!
Love,
~Dawn~

Comments

  1. Beth, Joshua, Isabella, McKinley and AnnaKateFriday, May 25, 2007

    Beautiful cake! Happy Birthday Maddie!

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  2. KimberlySunday, May 27, 2007

    The cake turned out so wonderful! You did such a great job!! I cant wait to do a butterfly theme cake, lol!!! Maddie is sooo adorable! On xanders first birthday, we blew up a whole bunch of balloons.. that all he played with the whole time, lol!!!!! I posted new pics finally of the two recent cakes that i made, the shrek theme ones :D they are up on the blog!


    Thanks again for all your support!!!


    ~kim~

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  3. KimberlyMonday, May 28, 2007

    I tried to do the pattern transfer with shrek and donkey, but the weather was just too warm and my icing got too sticky. I ended up taking off almost the whole top layer of icing when i peeled off the transfer :( i was so fraustrated, i did most of the shrek free hand and all of donkey free hand, it was difficult and my hands were killing me by the time i was done, lol!! But it was all worth it, they absolutly loved the cake!

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  4. KimberlyMonday, May 28, 2007

    Oh and good luck with your upcoming cakes :D I have 3 in july, all within the first week and a half, lol.

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