A Birthday Interlude
Ane’s tenth birthday landed in the middle of all the Christmas festivities – as it does every year – and the family all showed up to celebrate.
We really didn’t go with a theme this year – she just picked some favorite colors and we went with it. And cupcakes. The girl loves cupcakes.
She still loves her doll, and her brothers gave Susan a new set of pajamas.
Clothes are always welcome…
… as are LEGO sets.
And every budding chef needs a basic starter cookbook.
The birthday cupcakes were chocolate cake with raspberry buttercream. Our initial decorating idea didn’t work, so we went with sugar pearl hearts on the cupcakes this year.
Yes, I put every sugar pearl on those cupcakes myself. I used a heart cookie cutter as a template – there was no way I could do those freehand. Even though they weren’t our original vision, Ane loved them.
We also opted for a single large candle instead of trying to jam ten small ones onto the cupcake. And risk lighting the cupcake on fire.
Ane had a fantastic birthday, but we still had a little more Christmas to finish!