It is official. Nathan is 1. Where did the time go?
Planning for this party actually started about 3 weeks ago with a conversation about cake. Here in Germany they don't have bakeries that have birthday cakes like in the US. They also don't have boxed cake mixes either. We all know that I am not a cooking genuis by any means so needless to say I was a little nervous about making a cake from scratch. We were talking about this over dinner one night with our good friends, the Urbanski family. And God love them, they found a Betty Crocker cake mix AND frosting while on a trip to Amsterdam. What would we do without these wonderful, thoughtful people! We cannot thank them enough for their generosity!
After getting the cake mix and reading the directions I realized we needed vegetable oil for the mix. I know what you are thinking, so what is the big deal? Just go buy some! Not so easy my friends!! They don't just have regular vegetable oil here! Noooo, we have sunflower, Raps seed oil, and any other kind of oil you can think of!! It took Sean's office, Drew Urbanksi, and Wikipedia to finally find out what oil we needed. The cake turned out great and we congratualted ourselves on the correct guess in oil. Ahhh the small things! :)
While Sean was at work I was busy making the cake and decorating the house. I decorated the dining room with balloons and gummie bears hanging from the celing. Nathan took one look at the balloons and started a temper tantrum because he wanted to rip them from the celing. Trying to reason with a 1 year old and tell him no, those are for decoration and not play is impossible.
The big moment arrived and Nathan got to dig into the cake. He loved it!! I can't believe he is such a big boy! We are sorry that not everyone could be here to enjoy this wonderful day with us, but we hope the pictures and video help ease some sadness. We love you all and think of you every day.
Here is the link to the new pictures: http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g46/snerb722/Nathans%201st%20Birthday/
Enjoy the video!
So wish I was there, it's priceless. But what's with cutting off him opening his presedt?? Love and kisses Nana
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Aww that what a cute video! Makes me so sad that you moved so far away! Time has come and gone from us my dear friends! hope all is well =)
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