Happy 1st Birthday!!! My sweet, beautiful baby! Oh where does the time go?
It seems like yesterday we were anxiously anticipating your birth. Now here we are celebrating your 1st birthday!
We had a small party for her on Saturday. It was mostly just family and she seemed to have a good time. I made two cakes. One was a regular sized cake and the other was identical, but in a miniature version just for her. I made a vanilla supreme cake, deluxe cream cheese frosting, and a lemony-orange filling. The kids usually request a very specific kind of cake (Maddy-strawberry, Mark-cookie, Stacey-ice cream, etc), but since Marina can't tell me yet what kind she prefers, I used this opportunity to experiment a bit. I thought it turned out pretty good. However, it wasn't as sweet as you'd expect a birthday cake to be. The recipe is a keeper... just not for birthdays.
































