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May Milestones

May 28, 2012 by Jodi 5 Comments

I’m not big on party planning, but I love decorating birthday cakes. Especially when someone else has done the hard work of figuring out the “how” and I can just follow directions. Matthias and I found cake directions for a Dragon birthday cake on Family Fun.

The fruit leather wings were a FAIL, but the birthday boy didn’t mind. I must also mention the WORLD’S YUMMIEST FROSTING recipe. Once you go Swiss Meringue, you never go back.

Daddy earned some extra Awesome Points by throwing together a “Dragon Sub”.

The rest of the week has been spent puttering around our yard, swimming in our tiny pool and finishing off the planting. Have I mentioned how much I detest dirt? blech. blech. nasty. ugh. The kids are having a blast though, so that keeps me going.

cinderblock raised bed, as seen on Pinterest

and we are also celebrating this other thing…

seven years

Maybe by the time we get to 10 years, I will have made us a real wedding album.

more cakes I’ve made for the kids:

  • The Butterfly Birthday
  • Monster Truck
  • Rainbow Cake & “Digging for Dinosaurs”
  • Flower Cake

Filed Under: Non-Sewing Crafts Tagged With: anniversary, birthday, boy birthday, cake, dragon, garden, may, sub

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  1. andrea says

    May 29, 2012 at 9:53 am

    wow, your cinder block planters turned out wonderfully! thanks for the link back too! love seeing other variations…and yours are certainly worthy!
    hope you have a good week!
    -retrohipmama

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  2. Anne @ Modern Mrs Darcy says

    May 29, 2012 at 8:04 pm

    All the pics are gorgeous but I especially want to say HAPPY 7TH!

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    • Jodi says

      May 30, 2012 at 10:15 pm

      thanks. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Beadgirl says

    May 30, 2012 at 5:21 pm

    Ooh, Beadboy2 loves dragons. Was it hard to cut the second cake into the tail pieces?

    Reply
  4. Jodi says

    May 30, 2012 at 10:15 pm

    Not really! I just followed the rough outline provided on the tutorial.

    Reply

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