my cake adventure!

For each granddaughters 12th Birthday we have a girls dinner party to celebrate them becoming "women" Its a fun and special tradition in our family and one I know I'll love to have around for my daughters. Anyway tonight we celebrated my niece Lexi's 12th Birthday and I decided to make her a special cake...it ended up being quite the adventure! First...I took a picture of the cake all done except for the candles and flowers, which I had planned on adding when we got to the restaraunt...

I placed this almost finished cake on the table and took a quick picture cause I was soo excited about how my 3+ hrs of hard work had payed off! Luckily Taya is an amazing napper and napped the whole time I was creating this...Anyway I went into the kitchen/salon to style my moms hair before we went to the party and when I finished I came out into the dining room to find this...

This picture is missing its key ingredient Taya who had woken up from her nap right as I had finished the cake! She climbed right up sat on the table and had at the cake, while I was doing my moms hair! I of course had a little mental meltdown and after Grandma rescued Taya and took her and Rylee outside, I worked on saving my masterpiece....

You can see a few imperfections but after touching up the cake, along with my smeard eyeliner from being a baby and crying about it, I reminded myself it was going to be eaten in an hr anyway and decided it looked good.

Its so fun to see Lexi becoming a young woman. I cant believe how fast time has gone, I still remember welcoming her home from hawaii when she was 2 and she was so shy! Now she is a fun loud and happy 12 yr old, CRAZY!

Its so fun to get together with my family. Dad would've gotten so mad at our table manners though :)

so my tears were pointless to shed afterall...It was fun to look at for the few hrs it lived though, and it was TONS of fun to make! The End :)