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Mya's 1st Birthday Party

Since Mya's birthday is right at New Years...that makes it difficult to plan a birthday party.  This year not only was it New Years, I was volunteering at the Passion Conference in Atlanta the weekend after her birthday.  Thankfully she didn't seem to notice her party was a little late...or after her sister's!

I couldn't make Addison a big princess castle cake and not try something cool for Mya's cake too.  I got the tiered cake idea from my friend Courtenay and my mom and I made the rest up!  I decided to make the cake from scratch too (we always make the icing) for this cake and make a lemon filling.  Crazy!

This is how much butter was needed for the cake and icing!  13 sticks!


Granted, we didn't use all the icing and it was a BIG cake.  Still, not healthy, but pretty...


This cake was actually very easy.  The top layer was styrofoam again to make the cake lighter and to avoid wasting anymore cake.  While this cake didn't taste as moist as Addison's, it stacked better b/c it was more like a pound cake texture.  At the party someone said my mom and I should have a cake business.  The answer to the is NO!  While most of the time it is fun, making cakes is time consuming and can be stressful.  I wouldn't want to do it all the time!


Opening presents via Skype with Daddy.


She love her new pillow pet!





Ready for some cake!  

Just a note on my 1st birthday cake perspective...because this is my blog and I can give my opinion. :)  I try to limit sweets in our life anyways (absolutely none for the first year), so the idea of giving a one year old an entire cake to tear into doesn't really appeal to me.  The mess doesn't bother me, its the idea of such a little person eating so much cake.  You or I would be sick if we ate that much cake, so of course it would make a kid's little tummy upset too.  Especially a kid like Mya, who will eat anything you put in front of her!  So all that said, I gave her a cupcake.  

Papa helping her with her first bite - 
 Definitely had a different attitude toward cake than her sister did at her first birthday!



Showing Daddy how she can eat cake!  


Back to the table for some real food!

Big thanks to my mom who helped so much with both our girls' cakes and 
Happy Birthday to my sweet baby Mya!

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