Mystery Cake

Chris turned 35 last weekend. We had a quiet dinner at home to celebrate.



Pretending to blow out the candles.



Really blowing out the candles.



And now Sam blowing out the candles, of course.



We had Cleo groomed a few weeks back, and that guy's mom makes cakes, so I decided it would be fun to order a cake for Chris's birthday. I tried to order an Italian cream cake, but she told me that I didn't want that, so she would make us a special cake instead. It didn't matter to me. I was in it for the adventure. So, let's pretend that it actually says CHRIS instead of CHIRS, ok? It was different from any cake that I have ever had. The cake part was similar to a carrot cake. It seems like it had fruit and nuts in it. The icing between the layers had sweetened condensed milk in it, but I couldn't tell what else was in it. The icing on top either had egg whites or meringue powder in it, so it was like a hard candy shell and actually tasted like Smarties. Next time we order a cake, we might just play it safe with one of the standards, but it really is more memorable to get a mystery cake every now and then.



Sam really liked the cake. He ate a bunch of the icing.



And he ate all the little chocolate balls that spelled Chris on top.



Sam spent most of the weekend "washing" trains with is new Sodor Scrub & Shine.



He would line all his trains up and send them through one after the other until the track was full of "clean" trains.





Chris was experimenting with some of his new camera "toys" one night and took this picture of Cleo with a blue gel on the flash. I realized that we hadn't posted a picture of Cleo since she had that hematoma on her ear. It's healed very nicely, but that ear isn't pointy any more. We think it's actually really cute and gives her more character.