Anyone who has hung round with Daddy’s family knows that May is an awfully popular month for birthdays. One of Gramps’ lesser known skills is that he is positively a magician with cake mix and frosting…the cakes he would enter into his church competitions often floored the competition.
With the cluster of us living in Port Orange (at the time, two sets of aunts and uncles, a set of grandparents, Gramps and I…all within two square miles of each other), it wasn’t uncommon for all of us to get together and celebrate the May birthdays as one. Between Grandma Williams, Uncle Roger, and I…Gramps decorated a big sheet cake decorated like a three ring circus and adorned with three big candles signifying 162 years!
With that background, Gramps decided to revive that tradition with Nicholas as the newest May baby with an everybody’s birthday party featuring Nicholas. So what if it’s a month early…any excuse to party, my friends… 🙂
Of course, come to one of these soirees hungry because the food is going to be there aplenty. We also had plenty of family about with Aunt Nadine, Aunt Betty and Uncle Roger, and Grandma Carol joining us for the festivities. The cake itself was a thing of beauty…Gramps had Target scan one of the pictures from this very BLOG insert link here which was then frosted into the top of the cake. It’s amazing what cool things they can do with frosting these days.
Nicholas even got his own little cake of his own to do with as he pleased. And he certainly took advantage of it…it took less than a minute to destroy that cake. Now mind you, we couldn’t keep the boy from eating every bit of sand from the beach that he could get his hands on…and he just was not going to eat that cake, not the least little bit. Consistency, my boy…PLEASE!
All in all, a wonderful time had by all and after everyone had departed, we headed to the local Chinese buffet to stuff ourselves even more than we had already done!
