Nicholas Turns 3!

We had a great time for Nicholas' 3rd birthday on Tuesday, June 9th (his actual b-day). Chuck was on vacation that week so we went to WF to see Mel and Jack and had a family party up there. My parents, Richard, Brandi & the kids, Chuck's grandmother and Chuck's Aunt June and Uncle Donnie all came in for the celebrations. I always make my kids a b-day cake on their actual birthday and this year the request was Rocket from Little Einsteins. This was my trial run cake before his birthday party at our house the next week. I made the first one with my usual butter cream frosting and has a really hard time keeping it from melting and making the colors deep enough. Rocket came our kind of pink, but Nicholas didn't care. Mel also had a cake for him so he got to have two birthday cakes! Mel also cooked a lot of really yummy food. We all had a good time. Nicholas was really cute opening up his cards. He seemed to be more excited about the cards than the presents at times.

Here is Birthday Party #2 at our house. Chuck cooked burgers. This cake I just used a powder sugar and milk icing and it was like trying to ice with thick glue. I tried to upgrade my cake a bit by putting Rocket on grass and I remembered his antennae this time and the characters. Rocket was cinnamon and the grass was chocolate with butter cream grass frosting. My boosters fell down but once again Nicholas wasn't concerned. Gotta love that!