May Birthdays

Lilia has enjoyed baking this year. Like... LOVES it! So her grandma sent her a cake baking recipe book for a bookclub. Lilia decided she wanted to make her birthday cake this year and chose a sushi themed party. The ideas for the subsequent cakes are courtesy of this book. She made this cake from scratch and I decorated it for her. Going along with the sushi theme, we planned a whole party.

Lilia's Guests: Carlie, Legacy, Ava, Abby, Halle, Leah, Ebony, and McKinley. After the friends party, Jaedyn and Chad also joined the celebration.

We ate Broulim's sushi rolls for an after school snack. Knocked my socks off that ALL of the girls save one, love sushi. I almost didn't get enough! LOL. These newer generations apparently have more developed palates!

We played sushi basket (like fruit basket but with fish themed names) It was a hit and always a good ice breaker.

We made rice krispie sushi rolls

I failed to mention this is Lilia's 10th birthday. I thought that was important to clarify since she is holding up 4 fingers. Sometimes she gets a little confused. LOL

And opened gifts. And I love this pictures. One of Lilia's friends knows her very well and bought her an apron. You can see that it was a huge hit.

We celebrated Jaedyn's birthday a week later. Jaedyn is older now and just wanted to hang with her friends. So we Did a family party with presents on her birthday and let her have friends over for a late night. 

The shock in this pic is so great. I commissioned Helen again to draw a pic for Jaedyn. It is of her in Christs arms with his hand placed gently and lovingly on Jaedyn's cheek. Once again, Helen nailed it and the pic has taken up residence in Jaedyn's room.

I got no pix of the late night cuz I hardly saw the girls! Jaedyn wanted Lilia to make her cake so once again, Lilia very happily became Head Birthday Baker, and I decorated a cake. Jaedyn chose pancakes. This cake would have been yummy except for the loads of icing it required to make it look like a stack of pancakes! But I was pleased with the end result and none of the kids seemed to mind all the frosting.

As Jaedyn celebrated her 13th birthday, I found myself the mom of teen... for real. She is my experimental model and I am grateful for her love of me despite all the whoopsies! Sure love you Jaedyn my girl! And I'm very proud of the grown girl you are becoming.