I'm not sure you can see it, but her clock says 6:30. I'm sure she was awake, waiting as patiently as she could under her covers for us to come in, for at least an hour.
Embroidered shirt made by Grandma Webb.
Natalie and her presents. Her brothers bought her the suckers and Gobstoppers. And one of these birthdays/Christmases, we are going to run out of My Little Pony/Equestria girls to give her. Maybe. It's been like 5+ years running now.
This cake I made...double layer chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting, surrounded by chocolate Kit-Kats, covered in chocolate M&M's. Now, I have about as high of a sugar tolerance as possible. But this was just too much. As I was finishing it up, I could already feel it making me sick. There was just so much sugar. Natalie told me it was perfect.
Oh, and funny story about the frosting. I was making it kinda late at night. I was ready to be done with the cake. I made the chocolate frosting and tasted it, but it was just kind of... off. I couldn't figure out why, but it tasted awful. Sometimes if you use too much cocoa powder it can make it a bit bitter. But that wasn't it. The last thing I wanted to do was throw it all away and try again. I had Nate taste it to see if it was really that bad. He made a face. Then he said the same thing I was kind of thinking... that it tasted almost....alcoholic. Not that either of us would know what that tastes like, but that's what came to mind. So with this realization, I go check my bottle of vanilla, that was getting a bit old and had been sitting on the shelf with only 1-2 Tbs left for quite a while. We both gave it a smell, and yep. That little tiny bit of alcohol that is in vanilla had been having a fermentation party! So now we laugh about how I almost gave our 10 year old daughter an alcoholic birthday cake.
Now, let me take you through the journey that is Natalie blowing out her birthday candles...
It looks like she is just covering her mouth, very excited. She's actually plugging her nose. She has this thing about the smoke from candles.
The anticipation...
Okay, let's do this... With the nose plugged.
Wait, that's not going to work. Let's try this...
Complete and utter fail. Not even one candle.
I'm pretty sure we had to tell her not to plug her nose while she was blowing.
So, blow quick, and replug nose.
But that method was only slightly successful. And now there's smoke in the air. So the nose must be plugged again.
Success!
This girl is truly one of a kind. And we love her tons!
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