We decided to forgo the huge birthday party for Reece here and do one with our family this past weekend. Reece has been asking for a turtle cake for her birthday...no, not a cake with a turtle ON it, a cake that IS a turtle. Tall order for mommy when the closest I have ever come to such a thing is watching Ace of Cakes on TV!
So we started working on the Thursday night. How hard could it be? After two trips to the store because we kept running out of cake mix, we ended up with this...
Night One....
That's right folks. 9 cakes of different sizes. The next day I set in to somehow convert them into a turtle. Here is what I ended up with....
My completed turtle thrown together with my minimal artistic skills!
We carefully grabbed all of our turtle pieces and packaged them up. Now I had to set up the fondant and let it sit overnight on Friday. We got into Goldsboro about 9pm and started on the fondant. Talk about an arm workout! We rolled out three sets and put it in the fridge, praying after all of this work something resembling a turtle would appear the next day!
We got up on Saturday and got started trying to dye it green and continue to kneed it. I definitely needed Bobby and his dad's help. The bigger hands were much better at it than I was. Here is what we ended up with....
We even added some fish! Just missing the water!
All Smiles
Reece was so excited and I have to say we were pretty proud of ourselves for pulling it off! Bobby left with his brother that afternoon for some much needed boy time racing go carts and then doing some real auto cross racing on Sunday in Sanford, NC.
We asked the girls what they wanted to do on Sunday and of course they exclaimed "GO TO THE PARK!" So off we went. They rode the train which has been there forever and we even treated ourselves to snow cones, which Reece got all over her face!
Our racing, 3 laps spinning around the mini train track!
The messier, the better!
On Monday we had our last set of interviews with our social worker. She hugged us when we were leaving and told us everything looked great. We hopefully should have our home study written and approved next month, then we get on the waiting list!!!
We are so tired today, but it was such a great weekend filled with significant starts and finishes: We finished our first family birthday cake, Reece kicked off her fourth year of life, Bobby had a great finish at the race track, we finished our interviews...which starts the next step of our adoption journey and we also finished the last piece of business with my dad...making his mustang officially ours. I am overwhelmed when I think about all of the events of this weekend, and feel completely blessed and happy!
3 comments:
Wow! I am totally impressed by your mad cake decorating skills!!! Duff better watch his back :)
Awesome! I love the turtle cake.
ok. i've been out of the loop in the blog world for over a month now and HOLY MOLY i can NOT believe you made that cake. hellooooo martha stewart. dang mama. that is awesome :) and i'm loving reading your posts. have you flashback and read your first posts and moved forward? i think you're changing and it's a cool thing to see/read :)
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