Belated Birthdays

I'm overdue to catch up on birthday posts.  So here are a bunch of belated birthdays...

In July Irene turned 4 - she did not mind at all that I got the color scheme wrong on her Elsa birthday cake! 

Four is such a delightful age.   It seems like she is getting smarter by the minute...and she learns SO much from her older siblings! 

Also in July, Don came visit and we celebrated his turning the big 4-oh

Caleb turned 13 (13!) in September.

His cake was a chocolate hurricane:

And Annalise turned 11 in October - this is a dropped ice cream cone cake:

We learned that you need to let the ganache cool and thicken a bit before you pour it over the cake and also that you should make the ice cream part of the cake out of a light colored cake - not chocolate!

Her birthday welcomed two little cuties to our family - Peanut and Nutmeg, they are Robo Dwarf Hamsters.