Tuesday, July 29, 2014

A Birthday!

Well, July and August hold a rash of celebrations in our family.  The kick-off is always Dad and Mom's anniversary followed by Laura's birthday on July 28.  When the whole gang came over this past Saturday night, we held a mini birthday party for Laura.

It seems these days that we always have a whole lot going on, so the special family days sneak up, and the day before I'm asking, "What are we going to do?!"  A couple of weekends ago, I asked Laura what she wanted for her dessert.  I knew that she really liked lemon-flavored sweets but rarely ever baked them herself.  So when she mentioned lemon and anything with fruit, I set out to see if I could find a dessert that incorporated both.  And in the process, I came across THE most delicious, moist, beautiful lemon blueberry cake that we've ever tasted!!!  (Recipe to follow in another post.)  So, I guess you'd say this three-layer cake became the centerpiece of our decorations since there wasn't much time to do anything else.


The little ones always like to put the candles on the cake.


Though she turned 36, we only had 24 candles...



Everyone has to help blow them out!


It was soooo good!!!!


Here are a few other random pictures from the evening:

Playing games with grandpa whether indoors or outdoors has been a favorite summer pasttime.


Miss "Blue Eyes"


Grace likes to "cook", too!





It was a fun evening together!  

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