The Cake

Well, here is the cake! My mother-in-law, Cathy, has a cake pake with 9 different train cars so that is what we did! It was a bit of an adventure getting it cooked and decorated, but we think it turned out pretty cute!

Here is me and Becca decorating the cake! It was really fun! I haven't had much opportunity to decorate a cake in the last year and I forgot how fun it was! It helped that I had all the tools to do it! Thank you Mom!




Because it took so long for Becca and I to decorate the cake (It wasn't done until about 9:30) we let Michael eat it the next morning. He enjoyed it!



You always have to have lots of milk with your cake!!

Michael's First Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, here are the long awaited Birthday Photos!!!!! It was a fun night. This is a picture of Michael's hand after he was done digging into the cake. It was a mess!!!! You should have seen the bath tub water after the bath!! It looked like we just threw a bunch of dirt into the water! It was brown and so was the tub after the bath. But it was fun. I think Michael enjoyed himself.

Here we were signing Happy Birthday and he was wanting to touch the candle.

His first experience with the cake. He went for the little eyes and sprinkles. (The eyes were just little chicklets candy...nothing dangerous for a one year old)

Michael was being so careful with the cake and basically eating just one sprinkle at a time. I decided that he needed a little help getting started, so I pushed his whole hand into the cake. It was definitely a new experience for him.
This is a picture of the cake before we let Michael dig in.

This is another picture of us signing Happy Birthday. It was about 9:30 at night when we finally got to the cake, so Michael was practically falling asleep while we were signing....until he noticed there was a lit candle on top.

Another picture of the cake before the fun started.

It was a really fun night and an adventure making the cake! But I think it turned out alright, thanks to a little help from Grandma Sunderland! I can't wait for the next birthday!