Birthday Party

Yesterday we had Rachel and Anthony and their family come over for a little cake and ice cream party for Spencer's birthday. His birthday isn't until Tuesday, but Tuesdays are a little hard for me to do a party since I am at school all day. It was such a relief to get the cake done. It was like pulling teeth to get him to decide on a flavor. I told my mom that I would rather get my teeth drilled with out anesthesia than to go through that again.

He finally decided on a banana cake with French vanilla pudding filling and chocolate icing. I tried to make the cake masculine, he thought it looked cool.

The top of the cake is dusting powder that I shaped with a stencil. It was really easy and I liked the look it gave the cake.

This is Spencer doing a "jig" while we sang to him. There was a lot of heat coming off of those candles, it was amazing. Then he blew them out:

And we almost set the fire alarm off. We had to open the sliding door and fan the smoke away so that it wouldn't. It was a fun evening. At the end, Rachel and I sat down to play a game called "Blink". She had never played it before, so naturally I wasted her, but I am fairly confident that after she gets the hang of it, she will waste me. She is super fast at games. I swear at times you can't even see her play she is so fast.

Anyway, this kicks off the beginning of the festivities for Spencer's 30th birthday. I will post more when they unravel.