Business in the Front and Party in the Back

Question: What do you do when your baby has a mullet?

Answer: You throw a rock star themed party for her first birthday.

If you don't know what a mullet is, it's when you have short hair in the front and long hair in the back. Quite stylish.

Triple Letter Score

My Father-In-Law, Eric's birthday was earlier this month, but we celebrated it late due scheduling conflicts. Some Eric tid bits-he's a kind of a quiet guy (he and I are cut from the same cloth on that one), dearly loves his wife (naturally), loves to read, play Scrabble, shop at Costco, eat interesting foods, and is a real softie when it comes to babies and children. As I type this post, I realize Eric and I have a lot of things in common. Although I'm not a Costco member, which is probably a relief for our checking account. Normally he's traveling all over the country teaching bridge inspection courses, but we were fortunate enough to spend some time with him last weekend. Last year I made him some bridge cookies. I'm going to have really brainstorm for next year's batch.

This is actually my second round with Scrabble cookies, but the first one said Happy Valentine's Day and I didn't get a picture of them. So you'll have to take my word on their cuteness. You see I jumped the gun and made Eric cookies before I realized that we wouldn't be getting together for another few weeks. Fortunately, my co-workers and my husband's co-workers don't mind (reject) extra cookies.

Special thanks to Bridget of Bake 350 for her creative use of scrabble letters.

Circus Birthday

Celebrating your 4th decade

Look Whooo's Turning One!

A very special baby turned a year old a few days ago. Baby P's birthday party had an owl theme and her mom, Tracy put in her request well in advance for owl cookies. I didn't have a big enough owl cookie cutter so I ordered one from Copper Gifts. Initially, I thought about cutting the owls by hand, but I'm so glad I bit the bullet and ordered the cutter. Their cutters are a little pricey, but the quality is fantastic. I have a 0% chance of winning the lottery, because I never play, but if I did win, you can be rest assured that a sizable portion of the winnings would be going to Copper Gifts.

Okay enough lusting over cookie cutters and back to Baby P and her party. I actually got to attend both of her first birthday parties. Truth be told, I sort of invited myself to one of them. Her first party was a week before her actual birthday at Tracy's mom's house, which isn't too far from my home. Her second party was last Sunday in Cleveland where Baby P's other grandparents live. Like all grandbabies, she is well loved. Her grandmas love cuddling her and her grandpa sings songs to her. Great Aunt Mary makes wedding soup especially for Baby P. Suffice to say, we're all wrapped around Baby P's finger.

Meet Catherine

My sweet cousin Catherine turned Sweet Sixteen last week. About a month ago Judy, her grandma (who is the sister of my grandma) called to order some cookies for Catherine's birthday. Apparently Catherine had specifically requested "Heather cookies" for her birthday.

Naturally, I was honored that she wanted my cookies and I wanted to make something a little more special than the typical birthday cookies. I thought car and road sign cookies might be appropriate for someone that's been itching to drive for the last year (or two or three). In fact the morning of her birthday, she and her dad were at the DMV so she could take her Learner's Permit test. She passed!

A lot of my inspiration is from the cutout cookie ladies on Flickr, including Cookie Crazie, Sweets n Such, and Polka Dot Zebra. Ladies, your cookies are fantastic.

This is from her dad's iPhone and sadly the picture quality isn't the greatest.

I promise I didn't use dull icing colors. However Catherine is a cutie as always.

See I promised the colors were better.

Looks like this driver wasn't paying attention to the road sign. ;-)

Happy Birthday to You!

One of the most special people in my life turned a year older this week.

Gram, I can't wait to see you when get back from Fla.

I'll try not to be too jealous of you enjoying all that sunny weather.

My husband deserves all the props for the cookie staging. A few days ago, he looked at Haniela's cookie blog, which is in my blog list. He was sincerely impressed and inspired to stage my cookies instead of just taking pictures of them.

If you haven't seen Haniela's blog, please check it out.

I guarentee you won't be disappointed!

Happy Birthday Eleanor!

Happy Birthday Kyle and Tommy

I made cookies for Lori's twin boys, Kyle and Tommy. They were celebrating their first birthday with a farm themed party.

Happy Birthday Kyle and Tommy!