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Vanilla Birthday Cake with the BEST Vanilla Frosting

May 11, 2013 by Anna 9 Comments

Vanilla Birthday Cake with the BEST Vanilla Frosting

The sweets around here this week have been all about the birthday girl – your birthday is the day when you get to choose the menu for everyone in our house, and Gemma couldn’t have been happier about the challenge. Breakfast was fruit and yogurt cereal, lunch was cheesy noodles, and dinner was homemade chicken […]

Filed Under: Desserts & Candy Tagged With: baking, best vanilla frosting, birthday, classic birthday cake, recipe, vanilla buttercream, vanilla icing

Birthday Girl

May 9, 2012 by Anna 9 Comments

Birthday Girl

My beautiful girl turns 4 tomorrow! It feels like yesterday she made her appearance in the world, instantly making us fall in love with her and changing our lives for the better.  I remember being blown away as Carl and I walked out of the hospital with her that they were letting us take a […]

Filed Under: Monday Moments Tagged With: birthday, personal

Cookies ‘n’ Cream Cupcakes

September 23, 2011 by Anna 7 Comments

Cookies ‘n’ Cream Cupcakes

Well, it’s officially been 11 days since my little man turned one. Photo credit: Charlene Stam Photography He hit this milestone amidst a total absence of fanfare, with a hastily-bought- morning-of-birthday gift and not even a blog post to his honour. I promised him (as if he cared) a real birthday cake and a more […]

Filed Under: Desserts & Candy Tagged With: baking, birthday, cookies and cream cupcakes, cupcakes, home, oreo icing, oreos, recipe, Saturday sweets

Happy Birthday Gemma!

May 10, 2011 by Anna 4 Comments

Happy Birthday Gemma!

Today was my sweet little girl’s 3rd birthday!!  I can hardly believe it, especially since those terrible twos have yet to really hit. Looking back, God sure knew what he was doing when he gave me this little girl.  A self-proclaimed non-fan of kids, Carl knew when he married me that kids weren’t too high […]

Filed Under: Monday Moments Tagged With: birthday, Christian parenting, parenting

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