Megan's Birthday

 We just celebrated Megan's 17th birthday. I can't believe she will be a senior next year. Life is speeding by out of control. I don't like that the kids are growing up so fast, soon they will all be gone. Ariel and I decided to make Megan a fancy cake for her birthday. She pretty much had the lamest birthday cake in birthday cake history for her 16th birthday, so I really needed to make up for that this year. We made a homemade chocolate cake and fondant to make it fancy. We had a lot of fun making it. We did it in two days and spent about 6 and a half hours on it. Aaron even helped knead the dye into the fondant for a few minutes. Megan was very impressed and surprised when she saw it. We were more impressed and surprised that it turned out so good. Ariel made all the yellow flowers for the cake. It didn't start out to be a hat cake but once I made the bow, it sort of became one. Megan chose Memphis BBQ for dinner. It was good and we hadn't been there in awhile. When it was time to have the cake, Ariel insisted that we put sparklers on top of the cake. I didn't think sparklers were a very good idea, but went along with it. Those sparklers were letting off some serious smoke before they burned out and when they finally did, Meg's cake was covered in black powder...all over that pretty blue fondant. Who wants to eat a cake covered in carcinogens? It kind of put a damper on the cake eating part. Probably her best present ever is that her braces are finally off and her teeth look awesome! We had a nice day with Megan and we're so happy she is in our family.