In 3's

I have three nieces on David's side of the family. Two of the three have birthdays in May that are only 3 days apart and the other one has a birthday in July. Well for whatever reason, they didn't get around to doing their parties until last weekend and since I've been doing their cakes for the past few years, I was asked to make them cakes this year as well. Of course I said yes! I was told by their mom that I didn't need to do 3 cakes two would be enough and that they would be ok with just two cakes. So I said ok, I mean two cakes is less work then three for me so I was super excited about that. Well after I got home and got to thinking about it, I knew there was no way I could just do two cakes. That meant that one of the three would have to share a cake and I just couldn't have that. So I thought I'd do two cakes and some cupcakes (you know I love me some cupcakes), but even that didn't seem right because one would still be without a cake. So being that rock star aunt that I am ;) I decided do a cake for each of them. While I'm sure they all had ideas for a theme or what type of cake they wanted, I was told I could do whatever I wanted and whatever was easiest for me. So I thought of colors and then got online for super simple frosting ideas and for at least one I hadn't done before.

And this is what I came up with and all three girls where so excited and happy that they each got their own cake and that made me happy too!! It didn't take long for me to decide on colors and I've done the ruffle and rose frosting before even though with this rose cake you would think that I'd never frosting a cake before LOL.

 

I just whipped up the butterfly, heart and pendant banners using some scrapbooking stuff I had on hand and once again the girls loved it. Always puts a smile on face when I can put a smile on theirs.

I also made them some birthday cards since I didn't pick any up at the store before hand + I'm kind of over buying and paying $5 for cards when I know most people just throw them away so I again I just used some of my scrapbook stuff and made them each a card.

These were very simple and easy to make cards, just my type. Hope your having a great week so far. Thanks for stopping by.

The Party

David was home this last week and on Saturday he threw me a birthday party. Very low key with family and a few friends, it was so much fun. I have a twin brother, Tracy who is in NY working and didn't get to make it home, but he'll be home for Thanksgiving so I'm sure we'll celebrate again! 

 

We hung out outside and David grilled burgers and we had lots of other goodies to go with them. It was even cold enough for a fire so we got to use our firepit for the second or third time since we got it. I love when we can just hang outside by the fire.

 

I whipped up these super cute "hearts in a jar" for some table decorations and love the way they turned out. I think I may just have to keep them sitting out somewhere.

Outside we didn't do much as far as decorations go. We just set up some tables and added candles in mason jars and put out these cute lanterns that I got way back when from IKEA. And yes, it is the first of November and our yard still needs to be mowed, but we've decided the heck with it, it'll get cold enough soon enough and it won't be an issue. ha!

And of course the fire.

We really did have a lot of fun and laughed SO MUCH & SO HARD my cheeks hurt. Thanks, Babe for the party! Love you.