This Valentine’s Day, Dan was extra creative and put a little extra work into how he presented me with some of my favorite chocolates and messages of love. ♥ I was a little perplexed when I found these balloons in Mio’s room in the evening, with an accompanying note and needle that instructed me to pop the balloons.
Popping balloons is one of those things I kind of dread doing, but it was worth it to find what was on the inside… here’s a video! (Excuse my screams.)
A little hand reaching for the candy…
Sweet messages of love from inside the balloons!
Hubby gets an A+ for creativity!
Thank you Dan for a lovely Valentine’s surprise! 😀 He also treated me to lunch and dinner this weekend, so we could satiate our cravings for Thai and Vietnamese…
Eating at Natta Thai. Unfortunately, we’d eaten all our food before I remembered to take a picture.
My soon-to-be sister-in-law Elisa’s birthday is on Valentine’s Day, and we had a birthday dinner at our house for her on Friday! My mom prepared a delicious sashimi dinner while I was tasked with making the cake! Elisa is one of the girliest girls I know and loves pink, so I wanted to make a very princess-y cake that would befit the birthday girl!
I have wanted to try a ruffle frosting technique that I’d seen on Pinterest a while back, and I thought that this was the perfect opportunity! I stacked ombre layers of the cake on the inside, and frosted light pink ruffles all around the cake. I was pretty happy with the result!
Ruffle cake for Elisa’s birthday
Top view of ruffle cake
Ruffling detail on the sides
Happy birthday Elisa! ⤠The birthday girl loved it – Mission accomplished!
The ombre pink layers turned out pretty well, too!
Mio’s friend Junna turned two on February 9, and we invited over on Saturday to celebrate with her and her parents over lunch. I brought over some handmade mini heart pies for the intimate celebration!
Making heart-shaped mini pies… â¤
Mini heart pies out of the oven! I made about a dozen of them.
Junna-chan showing us that she is two with her fingers. So cute!
Junna’s dad made cream puffs in lieu of a birthday cake.
Blowing out the candles.
Mio and Junna playing after lunch.
Cutiepies!
Thank you Junna-chan and family for inviting us to be a part of your special birthday celebration! We can’t wait to see how you’ll continue to grow… 🙂
Some snapshots from Superbowl Sunday! We went to watch the game with some friends over in Maryland. Dan and I were the only ones cheering for the 49ers in Raven country, but they put on a great game.
Football whoopie pies I made for the Superbowl party. 🙂
Watching the Superbowl on the projector. It was quite an impressive set-up!
Last Saturday, our friends’ daughter Ellie had a birthday party celebrating her first birthday! They held such a beautiful party, with adorable decorations and delicious food! Here are some pictures of all the birthday fun. ♥
The lovely spread for Ellie’s first birthday party! ♥
Beautiful Korean rice cake for Ellie’s first birthday!
Delicious cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcake for a Dr. Seuss-themed party!
The birthday girl with her cake!
21 month old Mio, taking in all the excitement. She was a little overwhelmed by all the people and refused to leave my lap for the first half of the party.
For the Doljanchi tradition, Ellie chose the trumpet. Future musician!
Mio and Ellie meet for the first time.
Ellie looks concerned and a little weirded out from seeing Mio sticking everything in her mouth. “Seriously? Shouldn’t you have outgrown that by now?” lol
After a while, Mio started warming up to everyone, especially Ellie’s Daddy.
Cutiepies!
Trying to get a smile out of the birthday girl.
Madison girlfriends! I can’t believe it’s been almost twelve years since we went to high school together.
Thank you so much to the Hwang family for inviting us to be a part of such a special day! Happy birthday sweet Ellie ♥
