Winter Birthday

My nephew comes to stay with us every other weekend. This last weekend was his 12th birthday. I jumped at the chance to make some cupcakes! I got my inspiration from Tidy Mom who made some cute snowball and snowman cupcakes.

This is the first time I made butter cream frosting, but I will do it more because the flavor was great!

My snowmen are a little melty, b/c I should have put the frosting in the fridge to firm up a bit. Hey aren't snowmen supposed to melt eventually? ;)

My handsome nephew Shane! 

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Tale of a Teen birthday

Not having a plan was the best thing I ever thought of for my oldest child 14th birthday. We knew we were going to dinner and let him pick the place out. He chose the Tokyo Steakhouse Where the chefs cook right in front of you, it was a great experince for a hard to please teen!

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For dessert we came home and sang happy birthday and he blew out a candle atop his custom made (by me) cupcakes. 

They were chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and cannoli cream. Yumm!

Then we went to a local fair, Olde Homes Day. I think I saw him crack a smile in public! It was a great way to wrap up the day.

I felt like I was having fun instead of stressing out over the party details! Yay ME!! :) I even went on a few rides myself.

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Cookies instead of Cake

I had cookies made by Amanda from i am baker for my mothers 60th birthday celebration. We traveled down to Connecticut to Foxwoods casino and we stayed in a hotel for 2 nights and had dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. All went well EXCEPT the cookies were delivered on time but  when I asked the front desk at the hotel (several times) for the delivery they said they didn't come in, so we didn't have the cookies for the party!!  AHHH! I didn't freak out because stuff happens... we did get them after some prodding they "found" the package mind you it was the day ofter the party..we opened the box and the cookies were EXCEPTIONAL!

I do wish we had them at the dinner party because I KNOW they would have been a big hit, but like my mother said more for us!! YUMMSTERS! tee hee

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