Well, Bless Her Heart..........

I made a decision last year, I felt inspired, creative, like I could conquer the world! I would make Abram's birthday cake every year! I thought (after reading a friend's blog entry) it would just be really cool and sentimental. So, last year for his first birthday, I decided the theme would be farm animals. I looked and looked for birthday cake ideas and found where there was a lady making a pig cake 3D style out of a pan for a sports ball cake. The pig was so adorable! But I didn't want Abram's first birthday cake to be pink, so I thought surely I could transform it into a cow. The world was against me except for one friend (this is my friend who pumps me and up and encourages me even if it's something she would never do-and might be making fun of me all the while-yes you, Lorinda). I was a little too obsessed about making everything perfect-which if you are a first time mother and you are reading this-don't be as psycho as I was-don't stress out, because he/she is not going to remember and you feel like such a loser afterwards, and if you are like me-you will get so overstressed that you will have brake downs or freak out on innocent bystanders without notice. Back to the story.......... my sister "helped" me make this cake. I use this term loosely because 1)she is very distracting-I didn't add oil or something and the 1st cake was flat so I had to go to kroger at 1 am and re bake another when she went to sleep. 2)She is not the best baker- don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE and adore my sister, but she has a hard time making chocolate covered peanuts. Needless to say the chocolate spots were special and she "accidentally" broke the ears, so we had to make adjustments. So there we had it the cow cake-I didn't know how to make a nose out of chocolate but I did find one at party city to put on. Everything was edible except the nose. Then I decided the cow needed legs, so I used twix bars **this is when I freaked out on Kris(innocent bystander)-I asked him to go to the store and buy a plain Twix emphasizing the plain (remember I was on a short fuse, everything had to be perfect) so I melted down and freaked out when he brought a peanut butter twix, because we didn't know if Abram was allergic to peanut better!!! Back to the store he went, then I decided there needed to be grass, which my sister made-the best coconut grass you have ever seen might I say. There you have it-the cow cake. I was SO PROUD of this cake, I had built it up for so long.

I was so embarrassed to bring it out of the car, because as I went to get this awesome, amazing, original cake- all of the sudden it looked like a "well, bless her heart-she tried really hard, didn't she?" cake. So I laughed all the way to Abram's high chair-the kids at the party thought it was cool, and Abram loved it-so that was all that mattered, right?






So here it is a year later-I am not as stressed about the party, or the cake. But I am going to make it again this year, I will be sure to post so you can see what I did. It can't be that hard can it?:) I can't believe my baby is turning 2!!