Birthday Pictures

Birthday Cakes

Every year at this time, we have a pluthera of birthday cakes. Jeff, Molly, Gabe, and Kate all have their birthdays within 5 weeks of each other. Here are the cakes that I made for the kiddos. Jeff never gets a cake for his birthday, poor guy, because none of us can stand the sight of a cake by the time we get to his birthday. I am thinking about buying an ice cream cake for him this year. That would be super yummy!! None of the cakes turned out the way I would have liked, but they all tasted pretty good. This cake above, I made for Kate's birthday. There was so much candy on it!! It was any kid's dream!!

This cake we made for a party we had with Jeff's family. Kate is a huge fan of Mickey.

These cupcakes we had for a little party we had for Molly and Gabe.

This was what Gabe wanted for his birthday cake. It is my best at trying to duplicate Grave Digger, Gabe's favorite monster truck.

Molly wanted a princess cake for her birthday. This was the best I could do. I used a snowball for the princess's skirt and then put the body of a princess down in. Molly loved it, but you can tell that I was running out of steam towards the end of the cakemaking.

Almost framed!!

We are trying to be happy with the way it is turning out. We are loving how the house looks from the outside, but are not loving how small all the rooms are on the inside. It'll be nice, though. We'll finally have a yard.....focus on the good!!

Our October Disneyland trip

In October, we went to Disneyland with my sister's family and with Jeff's sister's family. The kids travelled really well, but my kids had fevers the first couple days of the trip. They didn't have as good of a time as I would have wished. It was fun to have family there to swap riders. We stayed at the Fairfield Inn across the street and just walked there every day. It was busier than we had hoped. Sunday was crazy with long long lines. We had an OK time, but will wait a while before we go again. Here are some of the pictures we took, only four months ago.

Kate riding on her daddy's shoulders all tuckered out.

Molly and Gabe playing in the letter A of California.

Eric, Tyler, Brayden, and Gabe messing around in the Toy Story ride line.

My beautiful Molly in those hot 3D glasses!!

Kate's bitter beer face.

Blake, Gabe, Mater, and McQueen. The boys thought that the cars were real!! How cute!!



The Huffaker family with one of our favorite people, Mickey.

The first time Kate let me really do her hair!!!

After many attempts, Kate sat still long enough for me to really do her hair. This was the result! I thought she was so cute that I had to take pictures and do a post. Isn't she adorable?!! She is mine, I admit i have a particular fondness for her, but dang! What a doll. The others are so cute too, I just don't get many cute pics of Kate. She doesn't cooperate at this age.

Molly's first dance recital

My skinny little, birdlegged girl!! This was her dance costume that she wore for the Christmas recital. She loved getting all dolled up and wearing the make-up. I didn't know how she would react to it all since she is so not a princessy kind of girl and super shy. I didn't even know if she would go on the stage to perform. I was so proud of her and it was so fun to get her ready for the recital. I have to share the adorable pics of her in her costume!!

Our hole

Our lot before they dug the hole. The one that is being dug is my in-laws. Yep we're building next to each other. It'll be nice!



Look at all that dirt!!

It is so nice to see the hole there and the footings in. It isn't much, but it is something. It makes me feel like we are so much closer to being done. It'll be nice to see it all come together.