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Four Years (and Two Days) Ago Today

October 13, 2009 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Minnesota Me, My Girls, Special Events 7 Comments

This is why I don’t serve Red Velvet cake for first birthdays anymore.

Angela's First

It was a frightfully good cake, I’ll say that much.

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  1. Therese says

    October 13, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    I LOVE that picture! And that is my favorite cake! Too cute!

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  2. Annita says

    October 13, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    How cute! I have a picture like that for each one of my seven kids' first birthday. When I look back, it is always bittersweet… laughter mixed with tears! I love the idea on your other post with the napkin and the birthday cake… I really enjoy decorating cakes, and I KNOW I will use that idea at some point! JMJ

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  3. Ann Karels says

    October 13, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    Wow! If you crop that picture right, one might think she has an especially NASTY skin condition.

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  4. Marcy says

    October 13, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    Soooo cute! I think a 1st birthday has been properly celebrated only if the birthday kid requires a bath after cake. Clearly Angela's 1st was a proper one!

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  5. Heidi says

    October 14, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    Reminds me of my son's first birthday (11 1/2 years ago): I was determined to make a fire engine cake (it was modestly successful) but learned that the huge amount of red food coloring needed to tint the frosting properly (it could not be a pink firetruck afterall!) was REALLY hard to get out of clothing and skin!

    No more red cakes for us either…we stick to decorative touches that use red M&Ms, Twizzlers, Starbursts, red hots…you get the idea!

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  6. Nadja Magdalena says

    October 14, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    Looks like a terrible case of road rash! Wow…I never thought red velvet cake could be so…so scary!

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  7. alison says

    October 16, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    i found your blog through an NFP magazine a while ago. i love your humor!
    and this is hilariously terrifying.

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