Happy Birthday!

The conversation leading up to Sunday’s birthday went something like this:
Me: “What do you want to do on your birthday?”
Birthday Boy: “Have a good cry.”
Me: “OK, that will take about five minutes. What do you want to do the rest of the day?”
BB: “Dunno.”
Without much of a plan, we ended up with our fallback activity - a late swim and dinner grilled poolside. It was a great day at the pool with unusually warm pool temps. We were able to stay in the water pretty late and we all had the red eyes to prove it.
Pictured here is the birthday cake Robbie helped me decorate for our reluctant birthday boy, Noel, who is not as old as he feels! (I did a quick color tweak with Photoshop Express – although the color did look pretty good when served.) I had a white cake box mix, a can of frosting, and a lot of food coloring on hand, so I put this together in the couple of hours between my farmer’s market run and heading off to the pool. Super easy! I got the idea right off the Duncan Hine’s box, didn’t have to look at the website. It hadn’t occurred to me before that you could get a single cake round and enough cupcakes to make this stack from one box. Cub’s birthday is approaching. I’ll be checking this site now for additional cake and cupcake ideas. Yummy and fun!