My Mini-Me and an Ice Cream Cone Cake

Last week my daughter turned 4 years old.  I was so excited all morning for her and kept calling her the birthday girl--even put sprinkles on her waffle.

Gotta love the expression.  So all of a sudden she says to me, "Please stop saying it's my birthday."  I was like ok whatever, I can play it cool.  Then I suddenly had to laugh because that is exactly what I would say!  Literally.  I was kind of worried (not really worried, but you know concerned) that she wasn't going to enjoy her day. A few hours later she was talking about her party and excited so I was relieved to see that she was in fact still 4.  Not on the verge of being in her mid 30's.  :)  

The day of her actual birthday we went to her restaurant of choice for dinner (McD's.  Where else?) and then gave her her big gift.

 Here it comes....

 A new bike!  She was so surprised.  We kept asking her what she wanted for her birthday but she'd always say she didn't know.  So we got to do whatever we wanted.

 She loved it!

Then that weekend I did the most low-key (and easiest!) birthday party ever.  We met all of our family at a park, let the kids play, and did cake and ice cream sundaes.  It was a lot of fun and it felt great not to be worried about details, games, decor, etc.  I need that once in awhile.

 

Dad brought her flowers on her birthday and I so wish this photo was focused right!  Arg! Yes the hubby wears neon at work.  He's so on trend. lol

Happy Birthday baby girl!

Rapunzel/Tangled Party

I hate to do 2 party posts in a row, but over the weekend we were able to attend my niece's 5th birthday party.  My sister in law did an amazing job creating a Rapunzel/Tangled birthday party so I have to give it a quick mention.

I made these cookies for the dessert table:

The cake (WOW!):

I'm sure you've seen this idea floating around on Pinterest.  It is so cool and dramatic.

Cute dessert table.  My brother in-law literally whipped these cake stands up just for the party and they are super easy to make--I told my hubby to take notes so he could make me some too.

She got these cute suckers 12 for $1 and then I made little sunshines on them with candy melts.  Unfortunately some broke in transit, but they are still cute!

Playing pin the frying pan on Flynn Rider.

The cute birthday girl!

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Had a small get together for the hub's birthday on Tuesday.  I can't make a cake and not try something a little over the top (as over the top as an amateur can get), so this time I tried the technique I saw over here and made the letters for his name out of candy melts.  I think it worked really well, and it was sooo easy.  Just printed off some letters I liked, turned them over and traced them on parchment paper.  Tracing them backwards helps them look flat and pretty on the front.  I will definitely try this technique again!  Now if I could only hand pipe letters as neatly.

Happy Birthday babe!  

Also, I'm coming up on 33....and I don't know why but that sounds so old to me.