Lucky or unlucky for Christine she is a leap year baby which means her true birthday only comes around every 4 years! In reality she turned 20.
Abby and I choose to surprise Christine with dinner on Sunday at a restaurant she has been talking about for months. Christine was more excited with the fact that she finally got to eat at Honeygrow, than the fact that her birthday was being celebrated for two days!
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| We ordered our stir-fry on touch-screen computers! |
Christine's birthday coincided with our Monday night routine of The Bachelor, so we had to come up with a plan to surprise Christine with something special for her birthday, but not miss our show. We came up with inviting a few people over and ordering in Chipotle, a favorite of everyone's!
Flashback to Monday morning:
Soon after Christine left for work, Abby and I made our way downstairs as we had a cake to make and not just any kind of cake. Abby had stumbled upon a checkerboard cake a few weeks earlier and was dying to make it! This required that we make three round cakes with only 2 cakes pans, which became very time consuming. Abby whipped up the batter and headed off to class, I stayed behind to pull them out of the oven. The hard part was leveling them, cutting them in half, then dividing them equally with cookie cutter, and finally placing each color in a certain other color. Abby would probably do a better job explaining how this whole process went, so hit her up if you really want to know! For our icing we chose to go with traditional vanilla buttercream, but also coffee buttercream. When then assembled our cake and somehow during this process it became lopsided! Oops, but it did not slow people from trying a piece!
Happy Birthday Christine!
xoxo,
Grace
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| Our Birthday Girl with her checkerboard cake! |
xoxo,
Grace
Happy Birthday, Christine!! Sweetest 5 year-old EVER!
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