Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Birthday Bounty

I'm just about the luckiest Birthday Girl around...

The Man-Cub made a vegan Birthday Cake - using my old Yellow Cake recipe(http://affectioknit.blogspot.com/2007/05/caramel-cake-mans-mom-used-to-work-for.html) and decorated it with 'boughten' letters - that's a word that you hear up here a lot...

The icing is from http://www.vegan-food.net/recipe/363/Chocolate-Frosting/and the Man-Cub said it looks just like the "glossy" icing that Dinah frosts the cakes with in the Bobsey Twins books he reads...


The night before - the table was loaded with presents...
...what could possibly be in all those BIG bags...


After breakfast - I couldn't wait any longer - we lit the candles (a lot of them)...


...sang the song and opened the presents...

There's a SoyQuick soymilk maker and 20 lbs of Laura soybeans - a bike kickstand and back rack - a Mandarin shirt, bathrobe and tea from my sweet sister who went to Beijing this year - it's all good and I love it...

The pretty red top - will be perfect for Reformation Sunday...

The pretty blue robe - matches the Man-Cub's...

A closeup of the tea ball - it smells heavenly...

And it opens up just like a real flower...

...beautiful...

...Then it was time for tea and cake...

YUM! A wonderful Birthday!!!

4 comments:

  1. very nice day for you!! and don't be insulted by the sizes - the Chinese are a very small people! i felt like a giant over there! glad you enjoyed....btw the soymilk reminded me - i tried to make some instant jello pudding with some soymilk you left a the house...and it didn't set up! weird....

    love, k

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  2. I don't know about that - I've only made cooked pudding - but it sets up fine. I'll check some of the vegan boards and see if anyone knows why.

    Thanks for all the pressies...

    Love,

    T

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  3. Happy Late Birthday! Looks like you were treated like a queen. :)

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  4. Thanks again Cass,

    It was nice - the Man-Cub still enjoys birthdays a lot...

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