Happy Birthday Tearney

Last year on this date, my friend Brandi was in the hospital with her youngest daughter. Unfortunately, she was unable to be home to celebrate her daughter Tearney's birthday in typical fashion so I stood in as proxy.  I had a ball fixing spaghetti, wrapping presents, baking a cake, and being the official photographer to document the party in photos to send to Brandi the moment I got home.  What did we ever do without the internet?  Apparently, I did such a grand job (in the eyes of a 5 year old) that about a month ago, Miss Tearney informed me at recess that she would like a horse cake this year.  She had it all planned out.. it was to be "chocolate with banilla frosting".  The girl had put a lot of thought into this.  She even followed up on Monday to make sure I hadn't forgot.  "My birthday is in two days.... you're making my horse cake..smile, smile."  I thought I was going to melt right there on the playground.  To say the least I was honored to be part of her special day and will continue to bake her cakes for as long as she would like (or until she figures out Country Mart decorates really cool cakes...then I'll buy them for her!)