Saturday

My sister and her boyfriend Mike came on Saturday for a pre-birthday celebration as they obviously could not be here on her birthday which is a Monday this year.

This is Rachel on the trampoline with Jenni - i just love the hair.

So we had a trial run of making the Dolly Cake that is required for the party on Saturday. My first cake attempt - lessons learnt:
1) need a tastier cake - was a new recipe but it tastes like nothing, so back to my tried and tested all-in-one cake.
2) not all things that say natural are better: the food colouring i had was 'natural' but you needed so much to do anything and it tasted horrible!
3) A fabric torso will be easier than icing
4) Don't ice dolly cake when Rachel is awake, as it is impossible to do with her on your lap.
5) make sure you have all the ingredients and don't need to send your husband to the shops twice after telling him we have everything.


She opened her presents from them on Saturday. I bought some knitted food on ebay to go with her kitchen set. Jenni had seen them on ebay and i got them for her and Mike to give Rachel along with some wooden vegetables.
yummy, had to convince her she could not eat them