birthday ends tomorrow. baking ended today.

above: the almost birthday boy! he is the greatest boy. he turns 8 tomorrow. he is sweet and really cute in his hockey clothes. he is learning how to skate and we can all learn from children. he falls down and gets right back up.  i love my boy! (and my girl too but it is my son’s birthday).

here is the butter/brown sugar for the chocolate chip cookies i made during the week… i used alexis’ chocolate chip cookie recipe.

yummy chocolate chips!

batter on parchment paper.

extra batter.

baked cookies! yummy.

i’m a messy baker.

flour for my son’s birthday cupcakes for school.

real vanilla

pretty.

lovely cupcakes.

still nice.

rejected cupcakes.. good thing i made extra!

icing is turning blue…

cakes for tomorrow morning’s birthday breakfast!

cake is almost frosted.

it’s a blue birthday cake! messy but delicious.