🎂 Cake Season 🎂

Around here, as the sweltering days of summer come to an end drag on, we begin birthday season.

Save Katie's eighth birthday (the day after Ellie was born), I have made all the kids birthday cakes.

Store bought!

Roses all over

Dairy free carrot cake

Ninjas & snakes 

Simple cakes

Cakes with candy

Pumpkin Pie instead of cake 

Cakes iced in peanut butter frosting and drizzled chocolate

Cakes in the shape of a ball

Crown cakes

Monkey cakes

Ladybug cakes

Regular cakes, with the standard roses

Number 1 cakes

Cat in the hat cakes

Gymnastics cakes

Castle cakes

 Cakes with strawberries dipped in chocolate on top cakes

Cakes with candied lemon peels

Rainbow cakes

And even a Fruit 'cake,' though that was for my mom

And in May, we have Justin's cookie cake most years.

It is fun to ask what they want from year to year.  Flavors and styles change.  And I get to do some baking and decorating.  And they have picked up on the fun, and the older too like to bake and decorate too.

Twelve

 Happiest of birthdays to our Gabby!

She tends to be a bit more reserved when people first meet her,

And loves to sit and read quietly (or cuddle puppies),

But she has a lot of personality too.

She has big opinions,

But I also see her trying to be a peacemaker.

We are grateful for our Gabriella!  We hope your twelfth year is as great as you are!

Love always,
Mama