your birthday cake is decorated with characters from a children’s book series!

I LOVE IT! and I took a million pictures of it. Ok. Maybe just 50. Here are a few.

This is the biggest, most beautiful cake I’ve ever gotten (Sorry mom.)! Can you tell that we already ate the back of the cake in this picture?? Oops! And we took the candles out.. now you can’t count them! That’s probably the last cake I’ll have with the correct number of candles on it. At what age do you stop doing that anyway?

Aren’t they so cute? If you haven’t heard of the elephant and piggie books, your life is about to get so much better! They are written by Mo Willems, the author of Knuffle Bunny and Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! They are easy to read, but great for all ages. Their hilarious plots, emotional characters, and heart-touching messages will bring a smile to anyone’s face.

The sweetest thing about this cake was not the icing (although it was delicious). It was the fact that my husband was the brains behind this cake. That was sweet! I can just picture him describing how he wanted it to look. How cute. =)