Happy Birthday | Adventures of Four

The Birthday Recap

Last Wednesday, I turned 36 and Cutie Pie turned 5. We celebrated with a little party of close friends and family that night. J put together an awesome get-together for us complete with our favorite pizza, the amazing Angry Birds cake for Cutie Pie and my personal weakness- a cookie cake! Yum!

Earlier that day, my dad’s mom (my Nana), stopped by to wish us a happy birthday. I love this photo of Cutie Pie with her 🙂

Cutie Pie was thrilled to finally have a kayak of his very own! Now we’ll be a kayaking family! J and I have a double adult one and both of the boys have their own now. Since the weather has been so nice, we need to take advantage of it by taking the kayaks out. Somehow we managed to skip right over winter and landed right in the middle of spring here. Crazy!

Both of us got ridiculously spoiled this year. It was so nice sharing our special day with everyone!

I got some serious gifts like this gorgeous original painting by our friend, Terri McCutchan. My mom totally surprised me with that one! I absolutely love it and have it hung in a place of honor on a wall that you see when you enter through our front door. It fits perfectly with our style.

And I got some not so serious gifts like this one lb. Snickers bar. A slice ‘n’ share! Just what I need while trying to get in shape for our April trip to Puerto Rico!

It was a wonderful birthday and I’m so lucky to be able to share it with my baby boy! I really don’t feel any older, thank goodness. Age is a frame of mind, yes? If that’s true then I’m holding at 25-ish 🙂

Angry Birds Cake

Cutie Pie wanted an Angry Birds cake for his birthday just like Wildman. J did not want to order the exact same cake from Publix, however. He wanted something a little more special… Something a little more 3D for Cutie Pie since he is the Angry Birds champion of our household. Seriously, I’ve never seen the game played with more accuracy or more nonchalance than when I’ve watched Cutie Pie play. It’s pretty amazing.

So, J set forth on an Angry Birds cake topper quest. I had no clue about this until a little white box showed up on our doorstep. The box was full of individually wrapped things. When I asked J what was in the box, he excitedly reported that they were Cutie Pie’s Angry Birds!

These things are handmade from fondant and are probably the most spectacular cake toppers I’ve ever seen! The detail is unreal! J’s mom kindly made the green iced chocolate cake. It tasted so good!

We convinced the kids not to eat them so that we may reuse them on future cakes. They’re too pretty to eat!

You can pick up your own set here, if you’re interested. They have all sorts of different topper themes to choose from. The sea life ones and Yoda are pretty amazing too!