April 11, 2005
Heather's Birthday: The Journey Ends
With everyone satiated on shredded beef, and Heather's Brother quite excited about his new paper plates, we piled back into the Birthday Mobile and headed to Heather's Family's residence for birthday cake.
And can I just say? Thank God. Russell's would have probably stuck a Big lighter in a Twinkie and had the deep fry cook sing "Feliz Cumpleanos."
But in all fairness, NO restaurant could measure up to Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Frosting from Morningfield's!!! (Did you hear heavenly hosts singing when you read that? Cuz I did.) Morningfield's is a local upscale bakery/deli/wine & cheese/soda fountain place. It's pure awesome, as you can clearly tell by this amazing cake.
Because it's not just your everyday two-layer cake. Noooo, this baby has FIVE layers! Do you know how much buttercream frosting you can cram into FIVE layers?! God, it was beautiful. And covered with daffodils, which are Heather's favorite. Say it with me now -- Awwwwwwww, how precious!
(BTW*, those are my delicately-wrapped gifts to Heather, featured next to the cake, but more on those in a moment.)
[*I apologize for using AOL-speak in my blog.]
Here is Heather and Heather's Mom as we are singing "Happy Birthday." Heather's the one sitting down. Isn't her Mom adorable?! Yeah, The Pretty runs rampant in that family. I hate them.
Heather's Brother also nabbed my camera and took some shots of the birthday girl, but it'll come as a shock to no one that they turned out retarded, and therefore, I'm not using them. Retard. Go decorate your paper plates with glitter glue and colored tissue paper, for God's sake, and leave the grown-ups alone!
Where was I? Oh yes, the gifties. I didn't pay much attention to what everyone else got her because I was too busy staging an archeological dig on my (real) plate with my fork, desperate to extract every last bit of frosting.
Besides, all that really matters are my fabulous gifties! I got her two new nail polishes, in Scary Blue and Barf Green. And to make up for it, the first season of "Bullshit!" on DVD, so she can make sweet, sweet love to Penn Jillette any time she wants. As long as she cleans off the screen afterwards.
In short, I hate meeting new people, especially new crowds of people, but I felt completely at home with Heather's Family. It was probably all the yelling.
Comments
Five-layer chocolate cake with buttercream frosting??? Oh, yeah--I can get with that! I can definitely fit myself around a nice piece of that, in fact. Maybe two or three.
I must say, in many ways you are a girl after my own heart. (Probably after it with dull utensils and a shocking lack of respect for where the blood splatters, but that's an aside.)
:-)
Posted by: some_other_dave at April 11, 2005 04:03 PM
I can't decide which is my favorite "heather's birthday adventure" quote...
but I'm delighted that you feel welcome at my family gatherings. because you totally are.
also: thanks for not posting the lois-armstrong-blowing-out-the-candles photo. because, dude, that was awful.
Posted by: heather at April 12, 2005 02:50 PM
Hate
Posted by: lil bus rider at April 25, 2005 07:28 PM