Sushi's 1st Birthday

Super-Aunt Lyndsay left this balloon with a teddy bear on our front porch before heading to the beach. I'm pretty sure it was Sushi's FAVORITE birthday present!

Her birthday fell on the Thursday of Spring Break, and since it was such a special day, daddy took the day off and we all went to the zoo! We had such a great time.

This is the only picture I have of her big 1 year old shirt before she covered it with twizzlers. (Which, yes.. she ate a TON of them.. and I'm sure that's not the best snack for babies, but it was her birthday!)

Zoo with daddy is so fun.

Which way Lyla?

All four look at me and smile? No?

After the zoo we stopped by the grocery store and bought *everything* needed for her strawberry birthday cake. Got the recipe from my un-named friend (JESSICAH!)... who was adamant that I NOT follow the directions on the box mix, but go by the directions she emailed to me. I thought it was weird when it didn't call for eggs.. but went along with it anyway. After 45 minutes in the oven I had to scrape it out of the pan. Gave Jessie a call and she guesses it probably needed 2 egges.. so I scrape together some close enough ingredients out of the pantry and try again. Again.. scraping it out of the pan. By this time it was 6:15pm so I tried pasting it together with icing (that is short one pack of strawberries since they were needed for cake try #2), ran out of icing on my flat cake so this is what we ended up with.... (first try on the right)

Turns out the cake needed FOUR eggs. hahahahahaha! Oh Jessicah.. I think it will be awhile before I ask you for another recipe! (jk.. she just had a baby.. I know what that does to ones memory!)

Lucy didn't care! (oh.. and Brock made me move the cake during dinner so he couldn't see the icing. And he left the room when we gave it to Sushi. Poor guy! Still not a fan of the frosting!)

How much do I love that she held onto her balloon the WHOLE time she ate cake?!

Sweet little face looking up at daddy

hAppY bIRtHdaY SweEt bAbY lUcY :)