Birthday Bug

Our sweet Leah Bug is now 11.

I can't figure out how that happened. See, she still sticks her tongue out all the time like she did 10 years ago, but she is quite a bit bigger and has a lot more hair on her head than she did even 8 years ago.

She asked for pizza and wings for her party so we had all aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and second cousins who were willing and able to come over last night and had a big shindig.

She loved it. The pizza turned out great and I managed to keep up with demand even though I only have one oven. The wings were great, we had the fryer outside so it wouldn't smoke up the house. And there were lots of fun and happy people over.

Leah was especially happy to have her Sheilds cousins come, she and Oscar are good buddies.

Whit did a photo shoot of some of her more adorable nieces. Jujo is absolutely darling and I'm super excited for Linz to go back to work next week so I can play with her a little bit :). She totally looks like my Grandma Hawker in a couple of her pictures. Cutest Baby since mine were that small.

Seriously.

David's birthday is today! He is such a nice brother. I love him a lot. We partied for him as well last night.

Leah and Ox. Those two are fun together. And there's the cake. Leah got to color on it with the food dye markers and decorate it herself. She loved that part. Saw it on Pinterest.

I made it all from scratch only because I'm cheap and lazy. Cheap because I didn't want to buy rolled fondant when I can make it so "easily". It is actually easy to make, and pretty fun - messy though. And lazy because when I saw I needed white cake mix to tint the rainbow colors and that I didn't have any white cake mixes, and I didn't feel like going to the store right at that moment so I just made the cake batter from scratch too instead of hauling my cookies to the store. Everyone said it looked good and tasted good too! It did. I rocked that cake hard.

Happy Birthday David and Leah, you two are tops in my book.

Thank you for the photos Whit - You are so kind to share your talent with me!