Char's Birthday Pics, also...a very nice day.

[merimask]

Happy 16th birthday, Charlotte!
 Because it's a weird little family tradition, I give you cake pictures!

 

I don't know WHY we love to take pictures of celebratory cakes...we just do it.  Everybody has to pose with the cake, & the goofier you look, the better.  Char with cake...
 Yes I know...I still have my Christmas Cards taped to the china closet,  I just kind of like them there...they are cheerful ( & the one Kij sent still makes me giggle).
Grandma & Char.  And a cake!
 Awww!

Me & Char.  And a cake, which is so yummy that I will STEAL it & eat it soon if the cake pics don't stop.

 Finally, Char and newish boyfriend person.   And a cake.   They are supremely cute & trendy together...

She says that when he pouts he looks just like "L" from "Death Note".    Reason enough to put up with boyfriend drama (for now).  I have some interesting observations to make on Char's dating habits of late...but that'll have to go in a F-locked entry 'cause, personal.    Suffice to say, if I'd been as logical & confident when I was a teen/younger person, I'd have made a LOT les foolish choices.  I'm rather proud of my kid; she's so incredibly balanced lately!  ^_^

In other news; it was a gray day, but a good one.  I've been riding my bike in spite of the wintry cold temps of the last few days, but today while I was out there on the trail it started at 50 & got all the way up to 60 by the time I finished!  It was so fine, I even got the dog & did another 6 miles with him (half of it was on a new wooded trail that was bumpy but lovely, & he had SO much fun).

The weather's supposed to turn; it smells like thunderstorms out there right now & a cold front is heading this way.  Ooooh...I hope we have a nice spring thunderstorm!!

So I just had a simply awesome turkey sandwich on rye, & it's back to work for me.  I have things to make for this weekend (I'm actually doing an SCA event...for the first time in almost 2 years!  Basically I'm just doing it to see some old friends), also my Etsy site is emptying out so I have to re-stock that too.   Making a late dinner for Mom who is coming over to watch Survivor tonight (for some reason it's on tonight instead of Thursday).   Busy busy!
 

*Hugs*  Love you all!

 

 

Comments

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Charlotte really is awfully pretty. And I notice her face keeps getting more and more refined. When I first met you, she was 12, and her face was rounder and younger, but she looks more like a grown-up every time you post pictures. She's got a lovely oval face and great cheekbones and a cute little chin. Lucky her :) (Her hair looks great, too. I knew that's the one thing I would miss about straight hair...the glorious shine I used to have. Curly hair simply can't shine as much as straight hair.)

That cake is so cute, with all the daisies. The sea-foam colour is unusual, too (one of the walls of my bedroom used to be that colour, almost exactly.) What kind of cake was it?

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Char reminds me so much of Natalie Portman...IRL she looks a lot like her. Also, oddly (since she is a tiny peanut; not even 5 feet tall & weighs like 110) she is constantly mistaken for a college student. Seriously, people estimate her to be in her mid-20s all the time (which pleases her immensely). I, on the other hand, looked like an 18 year old when I was 30 (which also pleased me immensely). When people see us together they say we look alike, & yet when she is with her Dad, people say she looks just like him. I think she looks exactly like Charlotte. ;-)

The cake story is funny. We LOVE cakes from the Dessert Deli...a really upscale place in Amherst that makes designer cakes (they made our wedding cake based on a sketch I did). Char REALLY wanted a Dessert Deli cake & I almost forgot. So, I called them last Friday, not wanting to be troublesome. I said "I'll just want a simple 8 inch round golden cake with vanilla buttercream on the outside & a layer of chocolate buttercream inside (Char's drop-dead favorite...exactly like our wedding cake). & the manager happened to remember me & she said "C'mon...you NEED decorations!" & I said "...daisies? & 'Happy 16th Charlotte'?" & she said "Sure! Now what color?" & I'm like "Light green, her favorite!" & she said "DONE!" & that's how I ended up with a designer cake two days later. That place totally rocks.

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Lol, I got both. When I was twelve people thought I was 18. (Might have been the boobs...they were a D when I was 12. Oh and I guess I was already five foot five, as I was my full height of five seven by the time I entered high school at 14.) But after I got to about 24, people started guessing me younger. It's like I wasn't allowed to pass 20 for...well, actually people are STILL guessing me at 'about 20'. (They just are certain I must still be in college. I get that all the time. It's funny because every time I go out with my sister, who is of course younger than me, I get treated like the baby and people address HER as though she's the big sis.)

It's a very pretty cake :) Though the daisies don't look tasty. (They look hard.) But they're adorable. :)

Cake Pics

[musingnmeandering.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

My family does that too! I have TONS of birthday cake pics. :)

Char is so lovely. Yeah for balance and logic in our young people! Bodes well for our twilight years, not so?

Re: Cake Pics

[merimask.livejournal.com]

We love cake pics here...we mark the passage of time with cakes.

My favorite cake pic is one of my Dad & myself laughing at the "yule log" cake I made for christmas about 10 years ago. It's this awesome-looking yule log with marzipan mushrooms and candy mint leaves and sculpted chocolate "bark"...but you see, I had NO idea how to do a proper cake roll. When I went to roll it, it just kept breaking. I ended up stacking the whole mess, fusing it together with jelly, mashing it into a rough log shape with my hands, freezing it so I could cover it with frosting, & then not telling anyone. Except I HAD to tell my Dad 'cause he kept saying how incredible it looked & what a good job I'd done...& we captured that moment of hilarious confession "The cake is a sham. The cake is structurally unsound if it thaws. Take the picture QUICK!"

[ramblinsuze.livejournal.com]

That's a beautiful cake! And, hey, we all have to have our goofy traditions. Tell Charlotte "belated happy birthday" for me. :)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Isn't it an adorable cake for a sweet 16 year old? ^_^ It is just the kind of cake Char loves too. I will pass along birthday wishes.

[tallymark.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely cake! Sounds like a fun tradition. :)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Thanks! There is always a cake picture...even if it's one of my simple silly pan cakes with chocolate jimmies sprinkled all over it (Char used to call them "ants").

[tricia612.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday Charlotte! You've got a great mom with a good head on her shoulders - a great role model for you.

Keep up the good work - you've got the world ahead of you.

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Aww...You are so sweet. ^_^ I will pass along birthday wishes.