CAKE!!!!!!….CAKE!!!!!…..MORE CAKE!!!!!
MacKenzie turned 1 and we had a super fun beach party for her on a very windy yet sunny Saturday afternoon. Chris and I had flown in the night before and it was the first event of the 12 day trip back home to Monterey. I felt the party to be such a momentous occasion since Mac is the first baby in my immediate family and now that we live all the way across the country these kind of family gatherings just mean a lot more in general. When we first drove out to Cannery Row to help set up around noon the wind was making me cranky and I thought Kimberly had lost her mind having a party on the beach for a 1-year-old. Once we got things set up and the wind died down I got a little less judgy and just went with it. I can be a real uptight jerk when I can’t control the elements. So I removed the pole from my butt about an hour or so into it and actually admired all the work and planning my little sister had put into her baby’s first birthday. I was impressed…minus the melted cake and cupcakes…
These were way cuter before they semi melted in the car, ackk! They still tasted awesome though. Kimberly made vanilla and chocolate because you can never go wrong with the classics. She arranged each individual fish cupcake into a school of fish in a giant shape of a fish (does that make sense?)
The transportation of meltable goods was not so brilliant for the event. Leaving the icing to melt in the car while setting up tables makes for sad cakes. The octopus is still smiling though, poor guy!
See what I mean? His tentacles started to melt off…it was the cutest cake ever too before it got all jacked up. The designer is a friend of Kimberly’s named Luz and let me tell you she is exceedingly talented. I so wish I could have photographed the pristine version of this cake.
No she’s not having any fun at all! Hahaha
What a clever idea! Kimberly made hummus and used a bell pepper to make an octopus.
Not a bad location eh? What my dad is sneakily doing in the background I have no idea, plotting to take of the universe I think!
MacKenzie just started walking about a month ago. It’s so crazy how much different she is since I last saw her only a couple months before.
She has her eyes on that pigeon.
I feel like she is about to demand a beer or something. Definitely a classy baby. What do you think the caption for the photo should be?
This was such a cool moment. My grandmother, who’s 90th birthday we would be celebrating the next day, has arrived and all the kids are running over to greet her! She is a great grandma now 6 times over and they all call her GG Ma. It’s pretty darn cute.
Spoiled much!? Well, duh!
My cousin Ryan the Rocket Scientist…yes he really is and that is how I always refer to him now. I told him his status as a rocket scientist has both dwarfed all of our accomplishments and yet elevated the coolness status of all the rest of us in the family just because we are related to him. He will soon be moving to New York so hopefully I will get to see more of the guy and brag to random strangers about my cousin the rocket scientist. My Aunt Nancy (on the right) is exceedingly happy he made it to the party. He took the train up from Santa Monica just for the day. That’s like 8 hours of traveling for Mac’s birthday. He’s pretty cool even if he wasn’t a rocket scientist!
Good times, good conversation. I imagine my brother is telling Ryan right about now about his new truck and his sick new gps system thingy….he was talking about his truck a lot that day. Thanks Cameron, we know you got a new truck, cool, happy for you….
Oh what funny skin you have GG Ma!
Mac is set upon her princess throne and commences royal cake devouring
just getting started, think it tastes good but not sure yet
“Are you sure this allowed mommy?” Hahaha, face full of cake
Yes it does taste good.I think I’ll have some more, please and thank you.
…..and the sugar high commences! “Arggghh, this is the stuff!”
Thank God she saved some cake for us. Look at that deliciousness!
After the cake Mac put on her new tutu over her bathing suit. She is real fashionista that one. She had so many gifts she didn’t know what to play with first!
Chris and I gifted her the book Madeleine, which I remember loving when I was a little girl. Mac already loves books, the cardboard kind anyway. I think she’s gonna be a reader! Among many other talented things. It was a fun day! After the party us adults needed a drink and so Chris, my brother, sister , my cousin the rocket scientist and my bestie Ashley all went over to Baja Cantina for dinner and Margaritas. Whew! The next day I woke up with a headache for my grandma’s 90th birthday, oopsie! So that and the following 11 days I will tell you about in future posts! Wishing you all good cake and happy babies!
Ah, she is so cute! And that party looks so precious–I can’t imagine having a one-year-old and thinking of so many cute things (and actually doing them)
It looks like a lot of fun! Mackers is getting so big! That cake looked amazing. At least the top didn’t get smushed
She IS big! Soon Cece will be running around chasing pigeons and eating a big cake too!
What a fabulous cake! Love the picture where she is about to dig into it. The cake’s as big as she is. So precious.
I might have to steal that octopus hummus idea.
The cake really was amazing, the adults loved it as much as the birthday girl did! Steal away
That cake is amazing!!! And the pics are all sensational. What a beautiful child she is
I love that you have a rocket scientist in the family
Thanks Dianne! Watching her eat the cake was absolutely fascinating. There were 20 people gathered around her just staring at her eating, cooing and giggling.
Yes I love it too, adds some bang to our family dynamics