Although both Abigail and Mark don't celebrate their birthdays for another few days ... we started the celebrations a little early! We'll be away for their actual birthday's but thought while Jenny's mum was still here from the UK, we would have some pre-birthday fun the week before and stretch out the celebrations!!
We had been talking about birthday cakes with Abigail several months ago and although she is a big 'princess' fan ... also LOVES anything to do with Toy Story ... and so was adamant that she wanted a Buzz Lightyear cake ... and has been talking about it regularly ever since. We didn't want to disappoint ... so Buzz it was. However Jenny got a little heavy handed with the red food colouring and so Buzz looked a bit sun-burnt (it was 95+ degrees the day we made it!) ... and in the photos he looks even more pink!!!
Abigail was so pleased when she saw it ... and didn't even notice the 'pinkness' ... it's her favourite colour anyway so it was unlikely she'd complain!! Her Buzz was also very impressed and took the opportunity to pose with the cake too!
She positioned the candles herself and successfully blew them all out after we sang to her ... twice!! She has been asking ever since ... 'Am I three yet?!' ... almost!
We had a few pressies to open which she was very excited about and there will be some more while we're away and we'll save some for when we get back ... making her birthday last 3 weeks, one week for every year of her life!! (Does that mean we have to make Mark's last for 38 weeks?!!!)
We did let Mark open one of his pressies that day too! We're big fans of the TV show Cake Boss ... part of the reason we love to get creative with our birthday cakes ... so Abigail and Naomi bought their Daddy a Cake Boss chef coat. Now when he does baking with them he doesn't have to wear one of Jenny's aprons anymore!!
Oh my word Jen, that cake us uber impressive!!
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