A lavender fiesta!

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Mamacita.

My mom turns 65 today. That’s a significant achievement, if you ask us, so we threw her a birthday party this weekend. Ava volunteered to make the cake and look how cute it turned out. This was the fruits of our search for colored chocolate and small piping tips. Not only were the cake and cupcakes totally adorable, they tasted awesome. The frosting was light, and lavender (!), and the cake just sweet enough and super moist.

Ava got a million compliments – all completely deserved.

These are fairy lanterns. Ava found them on Pinterest. That site is totally dangerous

close up of a butterfly

and addictive. These are a super easy and really inexpensive decoration and they lasted all night.

All you need are mason jars, clear glitter, and colored glow sticks.

You put about a 1/2 inch of glitter in the bottom of the jar. Then, after cracking a glow stick to activate it, dump the liquid contents into the jar. Seal it up and shake it. The glitter sticks to the inside of the jar and glows all night.

Today is Mom’s actual birthday. So on that note…..

Happy birthday to you!

Wouldn’t those lanterns be cool at Halloween? What other cool decorations have you found? What was on your last birthday cake? My birthday is coming up in eight short weeks – just so you know. Last time was ladybugs. How should I have Ava decorate my cake this year?