Birthday Bash

Okay, so it wasn't much of a "Bash" but we did have a lot of fun! I love making birthday's special. Growing up we used to get to pick what we wanted mum to make for dinner and then we'd always have the traditional birthday cake (angel food and sea foam icing).  We got to pick the color of the icing, and that was a treat! For Mike's birthday he picked pulled chicken on french bread for dinner.  It's his fav, and I couldn't complain because it's super easy and delicious! As far as the cake went, anything chocolate was a go.  Camilla and I spent the day preparing! She was a super great helper, er, well, great at licking the beaters and stuff like that... She wouldn't give it up, even after all the icing had disappeared!  My brother also helped us out!

On a side note:

I had a dream last night, and in my dream, Camilla smiled at me and her poor two bottom teeth were all rotten and yellow and cracked and funky looking! Probably sub consciously I was feeling guilty for letting her share my frootloops that morning AND lick a whole beater of sugary icing, and not brush her teeth that night (I forgot). Any ways, I was glad her see her pearly whites smiling up at me this morning from her crib! 

This year, I tried really hard to make a decent looking cake. I looked at pictures from last year and there was jam oozing out the middle and down the edges.  That's not supposed to happen.  This years cake was much more of a success with chocolate buttercream frosting and strawberry syrup drizzled over shaved chocolate.  The skor ice cream really topped it all off!

After dinner, we had to wait a bit, and then we enjoyed some cake and ice cream. Camilla super enjoyed it!! Mike opened presents and we all visited.  It was fabulous!  To end the night, we watched a few episodes of "Lost"...We're hooked..

I am super excited that it's FINALLY December! I can't wait to set up the tree and bust out the decorations. This is my favorite time of the year.