Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The day she turned 2,191 days old...

Caitlin has had a big month!! As of her birthday (which was May 7th)---She was officially 2191 days old (I think we have only had one leap day since she was born) or in other words 6 YEARS OLD! I cannot believe it has already been six years. Time really does fly when you are having fun.

My friend Kari helped me with her birthday cake (actually 2 cakes) the evening before the party. I baked all 6 of the cakes (you will see pics of the inside of the cake on the party post and you will see why I baked 6 different cakes) on Thursday so all we had to do Friday evening was to stack the layers and ice the cakes. Kari is a perfectionist and what I thought would take 1 hour turned into a very very late evening.

Kari makes me laugh because she made about enough icing that night to cover a football field and it was just for 2 round layered cakes. She would put icing on and then pretty much scrape it off because she was not happy with the look. :)

Here is Miss Kari several hours into the icing epidemic...


 Here I am just wanting to get the cakes over with, I am not a perfectionist and thought my handwriting on the cake was just fantastic (even if it was off-centered).

Dots ALWAYS make everything look better

This is the cleanest the counter looked all night. This picture makes it look like we are very neat when we bake but that is definitely not the case.
 We were feeling a bit goofy by this point in time.

You would never notice the "Happy" was off-centered because I put a smiley face on the cake. ***See Kari, to correct icing mistakes just put a smiley face and everything looks great. :)

Here is the perfect cake- this is the one we showed off at the party.

The girls were helping us at the beginning and crashed... so we decided to have a sleep over.





After we spent 5 hours decorating her cake(s) for her birthday party she decided she wanted to go out for a big breakfast. Following in Kate Middleton's footsteps she decided she wanted needed to wear her princess crown, earrings, and fabulous necklace to breakfast. Everyone oohed and aahhed over her jewels at the restaurant.




They always know how to take a good picture...


When we got home the mailbox was literally bursting at the seams with presents and cards for Miss Caitlin

Caitlin's cousin Jonah (he is 2) made this card all by himself.

He also picked out the jewelry and a zooble

Jackpot!!

She had an awesome day! I will do another post with the birthday party on it- it was a blast.

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