Month of Thankfulness: Day 15

I am thankful for moments to laugh and cherish 

as memories forever.

Oh and cake!

Before everyone found out that Katelyn is a girl, I really wanted to try my hand at making a reveal cake, much like this one ...

We already planned for family to come over that Friday night (the first night everyone could get together). Except, come Friday, everyone already knew what we were having - taking away the need for this cake. But I really had my heart set on making this cake (or at least trying to make it).

I decided that since the following Tuesday was Papa's birthday, I would still make a cake. And as an added surprise - I was still going to hide the candies we bought inside the cake. (The girls had already been looking forward to putting the pink bottle candies inside the cake.)

I let the girls help me make the cake - which included choosing colors. Of course, they settled on pink and purple. I got some white icing to do the outside in, but was quickly informed there needed to be purple icing on the outside too - so it turned into a mix of purple and white. Purple icing in the middle, and two layers had pink batter, and two layers had purple batter, with pretty candies in the middle. Quite the girly cake for Papa's birthday. (I am bummed I never took a picture of the finished product).

I left the tall, heavy cake on the cake stand on the kitchen counter while we all ate dinner. As the last few people were finishing up, Kathryn disappeared into the kitchen. Not long after, she crept up to Daddy and whispered, "Umm .. I need help."

Daddy followed her to the kitchen and found this:

 

 

She said, "I wanted to bring the cake to everyone."

She was heartbroken. She genuinely was excited and wanted to help by bringing the cake out for Papa. Unfortunately, once she got the cake stand off the counter, the cake proved to be too heavy and toppled off the cake stand.

We salvaged what we could ...

And brought it to Papa ... 

Singing "Happy Birthday"

I am sure this is the most girly birthday cake he has ever received.

And sadly, I still don't know if the "reveal cake" would have worked properly.

But it sure made for some fun times and laughs.

Poor Kathryn will never live this moment down.

But she was just precious. No way you could be upset with her.

Thank you family for sharing moments to laugh and cherish with us.