Happy Birthday Ben!

It was Ben's 26th birthday on Saturday. His whole family was able to come up to visit and spend the weekend celebrating with us. It was so much fun to see them all! Despite bad weather conditions and a bank robbery stand-off that closed I-70, they all made it. Thanks for coming! We played games, went out to eat, and had cake and ice cream.

As I said in the last post, I decided to make Ben the triple layer lemon cake. Well, turns out it was really yummy....but I think I made the biggest frosting disaster ever! The cake has homemade lemon curd in between the cake layers and then lemon cream cheese frosting on the top and sides. Evidently, I didn't let the lemon curd cool enough and as I was trying to frost the cake the layers started shifting, which caused much of the lemon curd to come out the sides and mix in to the frosting. So, I now have a leaning cake with curd/frosting mixture all over me and the kitchen. Really, it was one huge mess! But, the good news is that it tasted great and in the end, it didn't look sooo bad.



Here's Ben playing video games on the morning of his birthday! I'm glad he likes his birthday present!



Here is Danny and Tyler looking really happy to be photographed and Mom and Dad Schrant at El Vaquero for Ben's birthday dinner.




The best part of eating at the 'Vaq for your birthday is that they bring out a big sombrero and sing a Spanish song while hitting you on the head. It's probably much more fun if it's someone else's birthday, actually. We all loved seeing Ben in the hat, though and he was a good sport about it. And hey, they give you free dessert, so you can't complain too much! Happy Birthday Benji, I hope you had a good one!