I turned 23 on the 23rd. My sister Emma and two nieces came for the day and then my Grandma came late afternoon for dinner. Unfortunately I was not feeling well during the day so did have a midday nap.
This year I decided I wanted to make my own birthday cake as I had seen 'Kit Kat' cakes on Pinterest and wanted to recreate it. I planned on using white Kit Kats that I had seen in the shops over and over but decided to wait for them to go on sale. By the time I went to buy them they were no where to be found. I think they must have been discontinued. I went with the original milk chocolate Kit Kats to go around my caramel mud cake. However the cake didn't rise as expected so when I went to put the Kit Kats against it they were far too tall. I had to cut each Kit Kat in half. I used glitter sugar on white chocolate ganache for the icing. The cute little flag was from etsy. All in all this was a Pinterest fail!
As I opened my gifts that morning we all noticed there seemed to be a trend in the colour of each gift. Can you guess what my favourite colour might be? I thought I would show the picture of some of the presents I got as I loved all of them so they may be good gift ideas if you are looking for someone my age.
On Christmas Eve I stayed at home and relaxed after my birthday knowing there was a big day to come tomorrow. I ordered these Christmas Cupcakes from a local store and we ate them and watched the Christmas Carols.
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| From Kiss My Cupcake - Chocolate, Gingerbread and Salted Caramel |
For Christmas this year we decided to decorate the mantelpiece instead of putting up the Christmas Tree as we knew we would have little Miss Lexi (2 years) here all the time and it is too tempting for her not to touch. I think we made it look festive (excuse horrible green walls)!
We don't have a very large family so on Christmas day we had 6 adults and 2 children over. My friend had to cater for 39 of her family this year so our family would seem very small to some. We opened presents before lunch so the girls weren't too tired and could enjoy their presents (Alexis 2yo in particular as Hayley is still too young). Lexi is at the age now where she loves presents. I bought her an Octonauts toy which was a great success.
We then moved on to lunch where Mum cooked up a lovely meal consisting of roast lamb, roast chicken with cranberry stuffing, ham, potato bake, roast vegetables and bread. Once we stuffed ourselves full, mum brought out the plum pudding and pavlova which we still managed to fit in.
After lunch we played with Lexi's presents. She loved her Santa toy that blew out bubbles. She had a swim in the pool with her Octonauts toy. We then were supposed to do a farmyard puzzle but I ended up attempting the puzzle while she jumped on it trying to break it into pieces again. Eventually I found myself alone completing the puzzle!
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| Lexi trying to catch the bubbles in her mouth |
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| My niece Hayley 'Yay it's Christmas!' |
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