August Celebrations

I should be better about getting things up when they happen, then I wouldn't have to lump everything together.  On the other hand we kind of lumped everything time wise during the month of August.  We celebrated our 9th anniversary.  I realized that I have been pregnant for four of our anniversaries, would have been five but Bradley was born in July.  We ate Chinese food, watched The Hunger Games and Brandon went to work.

The next day was Brandon's birthday.  Brandon claims that because of this he will never forget our anniversary.  He had to work early on his birthday, and it was the first time in about eight years that he had to work on his birthday, but that meant we got to have cake and ice cream with everyone that night.

 I found this cake online last year and cannot find the site anymore.  But the cake is surrounded by KitKats, just stick them in the frosting, and has Whoppers on top.  The cake was chocolate, and I probably should have used a white or yellow cake because it was a little bit of a chocolate overload.  But the kids were excited, mainly because they were pulling candy off the cake for the next couple of days.

 Such a handsome fella.  Can't believe he is 31 right?

Shortly after Brandon's birthday is William's birthday.  See what I mean by the lumping of events?  William was really excited that his birthday was during school, every other school year school started after his birthday.  So he was excited to take snacks and be there on his birthday.

 We surprised him with a bike before breakfast.  The girls managed to keep it a secret for three weeks.

 Everyone ready to take William and Caitlyn to school.  Mostly happy.

Because of Brandon's schedule, which is great for errands and stuff for me and the little kids but not so great for the ones in school, I have convinced the kids that birthday dinners and cake and ice cream will be on Saturdays.  William wanted pizza and ice cream cake.

 The ice cream cake.  I got an awesome recipe for ice cream cake from the book Devil's Food Cake by Josi S. Kilpack.  You can find the recipes from the book online.  It is called Died and Gone to Heaven Cake.

Inside the cake.  William requested chocolate ice cream.  Of course now the girls are starting to put in requests for their birthday cakes and dinners.  It is hard convincing Britton she has to wait three months.  But we made it through August.  I can't believe William is 8.  He was very excited that his birthday was on a Tuesday because Scouts is on Wednesdays so he got to go right after his birthday.