1st Birthday Cake Smash and Celebrations

My little boy turned 1 at the beginning of December. It doesn't seem possible that it's a year since he was born, but then again it seems like he's been with us forever.

I wanted to mark the occasion, but without spending too much money. The main things I wanted to do was a cake smash the weekend before his birthday. Then the Saturday after his birthday we'd be free to have a day out, without too many time restraints.

40 Things To Do Before I'm 40 - List

It's taken me a little while to get this list together, but its here. It was a lot harder to put together than I thought it would be and a little scary to put it out there.  I feel that putting it out there for everyone to see means I will have some how failed if I don't complete it. And I also wish I'd done this list a while ago, maybe even a few years ago. But I will do the best I can, having fun on the way, and if I don't complete something that's OK. I already know that some of these items are going to be extremely hard to complete and at the moment I can't see a way of making them happen. But I wanted to add them anyway, its not a bad thing to have a challenge.

40 Things to do Before I'm 40

I'm not particularly excited about this fact or thrilled that people know, but it's a fact of life, each year we get older! This time next year it will be just a few days till I'll be celebrating my 40th birthday. I could get down about it or embrace it, so I'm choosing the latter. And let's face it I have plenty of memories and experiences that say I'm worthy of those 40 years. 

Chocolate birthday cake

A friend was having a party to celebrate her upcoming birthday and a birthday party isn't complete without a birthday cake.

So being the good friend that I am and looking for a new baking challenge I offered to make a cake.