Bunches o' birthdays
Friday, July 13, 2012 In the past month, my family and I have celebrated four birthdays. Mac and Bubby each have a birthday at the beginning of June, which we celebrated with a patio party—including water balloons and hot dogs—during their recent visit. Then my birthday took place at the end of June while my grandsons were still here, and Andrea's birthday was this past Monday.
Because we were doing a combo celebration of Mac's and Bubby's birthdays—they had celebrated with individual birthday parties at home—I created a combo cake. Both boys, like their PawDad, love, love, love M&Ms, so an M&M cake it had to be. I topped the M&M bedecked cake with a celebratory banner that said "Happy Birthday, <Bubby's real name>!" on one side and "Happy Birthday, <Mac's real name>!" on the other. Then I stuck in the appropriate numeral candle for each, and it did the double duty I had hoped, honoring them both and giving each their own candle to blow out from their own side of the cake.
Brianna did the honors supplying the cake for the other two celebrations—a delicious candy-topped ice cream cake for my big day, and homemade Sour Patch cupcakes, per Andrea's request, for Andie's birthday. I'm considering cake ideas to return the favor to Brianna when her birthday rolls around mid August.
All in all, our month filled with bunches o' birthdays was bunches o' fun.
Today's question:
What season has the most birthdays in your family?
This post has been linked to Mosaic Monday.
Reader Comments (8)
Adorable 'double' M&M cake idea and now craving M&M's at 6:45 in the morning...if I break down I'm blaming it entirely on you:)
May thru August is our family's busiest time for birthdays. July had been 'empty' but my sweet Grandson filled that void. Plus Mothers Day, Fathers Day, and our anniversary during these months...love family celebrations!
Your pictures show that fun was had by all the birthday-ers; and the M&M cake is adorable for such an addicted family.
August is the most birthday month for me with myself and my sister Janie, my twins David and Debbie, and two beautiful grand-daughters, Brianna and Taylor, that I can think of off the top of my head. Wish I could make an M&M cake for each and everyone, even me.
Love all of the pictures and while NonnieKelly now wants M&Ms -- I want cake! It is 7:01 AM -- too early??
November/December was always birthday time in our family. Real mother's was November 21st, Step-Mom's is November 29th -- then it gets really interesting! My "real" birthday is December 16, Daddy's was December 22, then Christmas, then the real sister's birthday was December 30 and then New Years. I hated December! I hated having my birthday so close to Christmas that my cake always had Christmas decorations and my birthday gifts were always wrapped in Christmas wrapping not Birthday wrapping. I was never able to go out for a relaxing birthday dinner somewhere nice -- Christmas parties had everything booked or at least packed!
In 2008 at the encouragement of my awesome daughter -- I moved my birthday to June 16th and LOVE it! Plus I even like December now! Can you tell you touched a nerve? Happy Friday the 13th!
Happy belated birthday Lisa do hope you had a wonderful day.
Winter seems to be the season with most birthdays August being the busiest month.
I love the M&M cake. It's so colorful.
There were 8 people in my family growing up. 6 of them had birthdays in October or the first week of November. My Dad's was in January and mine is in June. I used to go to the Hallmark store the first week of October and stock up on cards.
happy birthdays to you all! lovely family shots - I love the second one from the top with the low angle and your grandson checking out the cake and getting ready to blow out the candles, whilst the youngest wants to get right in there!
Have a wonderful week. I am linking up with you through Mosaic Monday.
ps - just love your blog name - just had to come and check it out!
Such happy times! We have mostly spring birthdays and three May wedding anniversaries!