We had our family party this past Sunday for Apple.  And although it was a little low-key, I had to make her her first birthday cake from scratch.  I did it for J, way back when, before I had a blog.  So, I did one for her.  A simple white cake, with Marshmallow Fluff Icing tinted pink.

We had lots of snacks, My Parents, Sister and her two kids and my Best Girlfriend and her Hubby and kids all joined in for some good eats and good conversation.  That and watching the kids play and have fun is always a blast.  We each have a boy and a girl of similar ages, so the boys took off and were running around the house and the girls stayed where all the food and chatter was.

Overall it was a great day, except for one minor candle incident.  One where say, perhaps, Mom put the cake a little too close to the birthday girl and turned to put a dirty plate on the counter so that there would be no dirty plate in the photo that Dad was taking.  As Mom’s back was turned the birthday girl grabbed a candle and got a little wee burn from the wax.  She is fine, there was only crying for a few minutes, nothing some vanilla ice cream didn’t fix.  But, getting shots of her blowing out the candles and eating her first homemade by Mom cake were not had.  Thankfully, I got a shot before hand to even prove that there was a cake.  And thankfully four days later there is no sign of a burn or any lasting after effects.  Apparently her reach is much farther than I thought…

And last of all, Hubby got a good shot of Apple and I!  This one is a keeper, I may even have to edit out the stuff on the top of the fridge and frame this one up.

 And for the record, it was a cool day outside, but I had to wear a pink dress to match my little girl.  The only pink dress I had was a sundress.  There is always next year.