Sunday, January 4, 2009

2 Birthdays

If I ever had cause to worry that Ethan would feel bad about a birthday so close to Christmas, his choice of birthday cakes would calm that worry. He ALWAYS wants something Christmas related. Normally I force suggest he make a different choice, but sometimes I give in. Since he is having a friend party in January with a cake, I didn't mind making him the Santa cake he wanted. I did try to talk him out of the lemon frosting (clashed with the red), but he persisted. I was pretty happy with the results. Unlike my regular cake decorating (described by my sister in this post), I hand drew this one.
Getting his gifts (he asked several times for those Perplexors- the level C was too easy, he wanted level D and Expert). If you look closely at his gifts you'll notice I'm still in love with Mindware. Almost as much as Amazon and Google.
Blowing out the candles. We picked up my parents on Ethan's actual birthday. Why we thought picking someone up in a NYC airport on the day before Christmas Eve was going to be easy, I don't know. It took WAY too long and the presents were opened late that night. The cake had to wait till the next day (because I hadn't decorated it yet- I underestimated the driving time for my parents by hours). I just noticed that he is wearing the same shirt two days in a row and the second day it is a LITTLE dirty. Oops!


My sister has a birthday 2 days after Christmas. This happened to be Ethan's baptism day and she happened to be at our house (a mere 12 hours away) so we had cake. Actually we had cheese cake.
This is her husband lighting the candles and everyone digging in.

10 comments:

  1. Fun! That is so funny that Ethan likes his birthday all Christmas-y. I can't believe you drew that Santa freehand! With frosting!! WOW.

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  2. Ethan is my man! I love lemon cakes and always want one for my birthday too! Ken always wants cheesecake, so I guess you had the missing Carlile's covered!!!! Happy Birthday to everyone!

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  3. You are such an artist. That Santa looks great!

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  4. I am SO Impressed that you drew that Santa freehand. And this year I am celebrating my birthday at your house because I love your mindware shipments! (I noticed Ethan got the snappers everyone loved on Joseph's birthday).

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  5. Happy Birthday to Ethan...and Tami!! The cake turned out great. I can't believe you made him a Santa cake, he will always have a complex about it now. :) Cant wait to hear about he baptism.

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  6. Your cake turned out awesome! I don't think the yellow and red looks that bad together!

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  7. I love the Santa cake. I could not draw that on paper much less a cake. Please tell Ethan that Sis. Robinson said Happy belated Birthday! I miss that sweet little guy!

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  8. Your cakes always turn out so cute!

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  9. That santa cake is fantastic! I'm impressed :)

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  10. Lemon cakes are the best. In fact now I am craving a lemon cake... :-) Never thought I'd see a Santa birthday cake. It looks really good..

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