Now for the Cake

We cooked lunch for Elye's birthday with my side of the family on Saturday. It was supposed to be dinner, but since Larry's game got canceled we decided at 10:15 to make it a lunch and I hadn't even gone to the store yet! I also had to fit in a shower and making a cake, too. I wanted to make a dairy free cake for Elye since she still has trouble digesting dairy. I looked carefully over the ingredients on the cake mix box to make sure there was no dairy. I was being such a good allergy mom! At least I thought I was until Jenny informed me that I just mixed a whole stick of butter in the batter. Duh, butter is dairy! Fortunately, the other cake mix I bought didn't have dairy either and called for oil instead of butter. So we had two cakes. There was no opening of presents since I already gave her the presents I got her at the yard sale. Mimi and Papoo got her a water table, which was just too big to mess with wrapping, and Jenny couldn't wait to give her her present either and gave it to her on Friday. I figured Reesi would have just ended up opening them anyway. So it was a pretty low key birthday for this one year old. But Elye loved the attention and the cake and had a great time. Happy Birthday, Elye!

Ah, ignore this nasty bib!

Luckily, she has a sister and some cousins to help her blow out the candles.

Not sure about this cake thing.

"Really, you want me to eat this?"

"Yeah, it's yummy!"

Trying to get a shot of all the grandchildren.

Easton loves his cousins already.