Monday, February 8, 2010

Our 5 February Birthdays and 2 Moist White Cakes With Fresh Strawberries

As I mentioned in THIS POST, the 18-year-old boy and I recently celebrated our birthdays together on Ground Hog's Day. And as if that weren't enough for the month of February, the 7-year-old girl became the 8-year-old girl on Sunday, and the twins turn two on Valentine's Day! If the baby in utero comes more than 8 days early, he'll celebrate his birthday in February as well!

At a bar-b-que recently, my brother-in-law discovered our abundance of  birthdays in February, and upon this discovery, begin silently counting, his lips moving steadily and his brow furrowing in concentration. I asked what he was doing and he replied that he was counting back nine months to try to figure out what the special occasions have been. I told him to stop thinking about that and that I was getting creeped out, but he just threw his head back, laughed loudly and walked off.

We had the twins birthday party early, on the same day as the 8-year-old girl's, because my mom and sister were here in town for the 8-year-old girl's baptism, and for each party, it was requested that I make my famous moist white cake with fresh strawberries. To be completely accurate, I need to state that the 14-year-old girl whipped together the batter for the first cake, and I made the frosting and arranged the strawberries. The recipe is HERE. Just look how pretty it is...


(I think the 8-year-old girl agrees.)

And here is the second cake I made, oops, I mean John made for the twins. (I did frost it and arrange the strawberries, though.)...


You can see how excited they are about having so many large people looming over them as they sit in their highchairs anticipating the singing of "Happy Birthday". And look at their expressions once we actually begin singing "Happy Birthday"...


At some point after the song, we tried to get them to blow out the candles, but, apparently, they each had the same thought in reaction to that, which was signified by pointing their fingers at their burning candles...


I don't know what point they were trying to make, but I think one of them might have said "hot", but without the "t", so it came out like "haw". Looking back, they were probably really confused as to why we had been teaching them to stay away from flames for so long, but then we placed flames directly in front of them on their high chairs. Perfectly understandable confusion now that I think about it.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this cake as much as our family does! I should make it more often, but maybe not until I lose all my baby weight. Thanks for listening. :)

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Little miss 8 is sure growing up! WOW tell her to slow it down until I can see her again...LOL The twins do look a bit puzzled. What a fun day!

Happy Birthday to them all

Kristin said...

I just love that picture of the beautiful 8 year old - cards are on their way soon for everyone.

Amy Snow said...

That is so funny about the twins! I love it. My husbands birthday is today, and my Mom's was the 5th. I do love February.

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday to all of you. Your cake does look delicious! Definately going to try it out :0)

Tara said...

I know the people counting feeling. I have 3 in Feb and my last boy missed it by 2 days. We still say all are the same time. I am planning cakes and birthday celebration as we speak. This year I am making two cakes one for our little girl and then a boy one for the 3 boys.
And I thought I had lot of Feb birthday's.

ajwhet10 said...

Jen, HAPPY BIRTHDAYS! The cake is beautiful. I can usually click and find, but this time I'm not finding the recipe. I'll try again later. Hang in there. Loveyou.

Mom2my10 @ 11th Heaven said...

Ajwhet, did the link I left in the post (right above the first photo) not work? Well here is the link if not. Thank you!

http://rtheyallyours.blogspot.com/2009/02/homemaker-monday.html

Connie said...

Happy Birthday to you...and everyone else!!!

Victoria Anne said...

I can't believe she is years old!!! I remember holding her as a little baby! CRAZY!

Victoria Anne said...

*8 years old!