Birthday Celebration Part 2

This past weekend we went to Minnesota to celebrate Tyler's birthday with Dan's family. We had a fun time and Tyler LOVES playing with his cousins. Marisa also decided it would be fun to tie dye some t-shirts. Talk about a flashback to my Girl Scout days.

I want to throw this picture in first. We went to a zoo and this was the first time Tyler actually fed an animal. I think he saw his cousins doing it and was inspired. (notice the t-shirt!)

Here I am carrying Tyler's cake as everyone sings. I'm not sure if you can see it but Tyler has the biggest grin on his face.

Blowing out the candles

Opening his presents.

For Tyler's cake I decided to make a rainbow cake that I saw online awhile back. I took pictures of the process because I'm geeky like that.

Here is the batter mixed into 6 different colors.

The colors in the pans ready to go into the oven.

After I frosted it, it looked like this. I loved that no one could tell that the inside was a rainbow of colors. It was a fun surprise!

And then....I cut into it and this is what you saw! very cool! It turned out really well and I was pretty darn impressed with myself. =) It wasn't a hard cake to do, but it was slightly time consuming. Less time consuming than piping hundreds of stars all over a cake though. I did not miss piping stars.