Brinley wanted to have a tea party for her Birthday. We celebrated a little bit early and had her party on Saturday.
You would not believe what this cake put me through. It was the cake from HELL! On my first attempt one of the layers crumbled, Dustin pulled another cake mix out of our food storage, but it was expired so I made a trip to the store, on the second attempt the heating element went out on my stove, on the third attempt at my Mom's house (had to borrow her stove) I realized I accidentally grabbed the expired cake mix (not just a little bit expired, like over two years expired) oh well, used it anyway, froze the 2 layers so they would be easier to frost, made the frosting, took the cakes out and frosted them the night before, but could not get them to settle, I had a huge gap between the two layers, thought letting it thaw might make it settle, didn't work, just made my frosting runny and you aren't supposed to refrigerate it, squished the cake to try to make it stay together, tried to fill it with frosting a little bit, looked down and realized I had somehow cut myself and was bleeding all over the place (thankfully not on the cake, just all over myself) the roses looked more like a kindergartner's art work rather than a rose so I scraped them off and started over, again and again and again (they were not this hard when I practiced them a few days earlier), tried refrigerating the frosting even though you aren't supposed to, didn't do much other than make the frosting gritty, both of my pastry bags got holes in them, so at midnight I gave up, I tried to put the cover over the cake, but it wouldn't fit without messing up the roses (don't know why I cared) so I just left it out uncovered not caring at all at this point how it tasted or if it was dry and crusty, I put the frosting in the refrigerator overnight and I cried, I wished so badly that I could just call my Mom and tell her I needed her to make Brinley's Birthday cake. I knew she could make it just perfect, but instead I went to bed and woke up early the next morning to work on it. It really looked horrible, but as I was working on it Brinley woke up and said, "That's a pretty cake." I said, "Thanks, it's your Birthday cake," she threw her arms around me and said, "Oh Mom, it's the most beautiful cake I ever saw."
When Brinley put this hat on she looked just like a girl at a tea party should look and as you can tell, she had several poses to go along with it.
I made wrist corsages for the girls and bow ties for the boys.
We just can't believe we are parents of a 4 year old.
Dustin told Brinley to close her eyes because we had one last gift for her.
It took her a second.
But when she realized what it was her response was,
(gasp and cover her mouth) "It's a bike!" She was so surprised and she loves her new bike!
Thanks everyone for helping Brinley celebrate her special day. Brinley, I'm so glad you were born!
