Happy Birthday Brady!

On Saturday, my Brady Bear turned 3! It was a pretty low key birthday. Some of Tim's family were in town visiting-Grandma and Grandpa Mann, Uncle Tim, cousin Trisha and her husband John. They all came over for the day as well as our good family friends, Dan and Cathy. As I mentioned in a previous post, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is Brady's favorite thing at the moment, so this was the theme of his birthday party. Tim and I put up all his decorations the night before, so on Saturday morning when he got up there were balloons, streamers and banners with Mickey Mouse on them. He was like a kid on Christmas morning when he saw them-precious! I also had his birthday presents on the table which he made a bee line to and from that moment on couldn't wait to open them! He was totally into the idea of opening presents and playing with balloons this year. I think we could have wrapped some empty boxes and let him open them and filled the room with balloons and he would have been perfectly happy. The biggest excitement of the day though was his birthday cake. Every year I try and out-do myself as a wanna be super mom and make this amazing cake. Well, this year, I bit off a bit more than I could chew. I decided I wanted to make Mickeys clubhouse. I did some research online and saw other clubhouse cakes with descriptions on how they made them. I thought, well that doesn't sound that hard. All the decorations on top of the cake are made with fondant and well that's like playing with play-dough. How hard can it be?! Well, turns out, it wasn't too hard, just time consuming. I may have wanted to skip the bike ride I went on that morning. Ooops! So anyhow, I got the cake made and decorated finally at around 3:30 that afternoon! Uggghhh! But in the end, Brady absolutely loved it! He is still talking about the cake. So really that is all that mattered.

Thank you for the "My Very Own Name" book Aunt Sara!


The Mann Family


Thanks for helping to celebrate Brady's birthday Dan and Cathy!


Did I mention (in case you hadn't noticed by Tim's jersey) that Notre Dame had their first game on Saturday. So after we had birthday cake and opened presents, it was football watchin' time!