Mary was somewhat lucky and got to celebrate her birthday twice really. Due to scheduling conflicts on her actual birthday (only one Saturday in months was available for me to run Super Saturday folks), we celebrated once with Grandma Beverly a few days early and again with her friend Katelyn a few days late. It's better when your birthday lasts more than one day, right??
Here are some pics from the first celebration. (The camera did not make it to the spray park for the second one. Good thing all those wasps showed up to cheer us up...)
For those of you with good memories, yes we did make these same cupcakes last year. This year we got fancy though and dyed cool whip green and used that for frosting. (I can't make good white frosting for some reason and it tastes beyond gross out of a can...)
I love these flowers though, well to look at anyway. I'm not such a fan of eating them, though the kids LOVE them. Basically you take a large marshmallow and cut it in five slices. Then you arrange them in a flower shape with a mini marshmallow in the center. We used white this year, but the pink strawberry marshmallows would also be cute I think. Then we just put sprinkles on them. Cute and easy.
I took advantage of a rainy night towards the end of July and actually baked all the cupcakes a few weeks in advance. Then I froze them in batches and just took out a few at a time for each party. The fringe benefits are not having to bake cupcakes twice and not eating so many cupcakes because of low levels of will power...
Meanwhile back to Mary... I am amazed how fast time flies. It's so fun to see her grow up. She's a beautiful young woman and I'm beyond grateful she's part of my life.
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