The Birthday Festivities

Viva & Jake are 1 and we survived the whole 1st year! The combination of not being pregnant with twins (yeah!), a desire to bake, and just pure joy at being over the early exhausing newborn stage combined to create some fun festivities at our house.

Great Grandma came to visit in the afternoon, bearing gifts. The favorite? The fruit snack treats were a huge hit. Genevieve ripped open the box and both she and Jackson tried to tear into the bags immediately. You'd think I don't feed them if you'd seen this zealous display!

Here are the stars of the day, refusing to smile because they want their cake and they want it now (I flatter myself - more likely the lack of smiles is because they're done with the pictures!):

The cakes! I made mini cakes (5 inch, 4 inch, and 3 inch) and stacked them. In my head I pictured it looking gorgeous, but turns out I'm still not an expert cake decorator. They were still cute though. Strawberry cream cheese cakes, although you can't tell since they're hidden under all the frosting and sprinkles! They were so cute tearing up the cakes that they get a whole post just about that. Stay tuned. :-)

Bentley (and the rest of us) shared a larger cake to celebrate getting getting the past year! I featured Bentley's favorite candy in the food - the Reeses cup. I figure that is only fair as it's probably Bentley who's had the most adjustments to deal with (and done a lovely job, I might add) after we brought the twins home. It was delicious - a chocolate cake with dark chocolate reeses cut up inside the cake, on the top as garnish, and with a chocolate peanut butter frosting. Yum!

All of the grandparents were able to join us for cake in the evening - Grandma Vicki joining us all the way from South Dakota for the fun times! Although not yet totally catching the vision, the twins were good sports and took a stab at trying to open the gifts. Their attention was certainly captured when they discovered the fun loot inside the gifts though!

It was a long fun filled day. The twinks are now resting up for the morning birthday bash with their play mates.