Genevieve is nicknamed Lobster around her because she always chooses the most expensive thing on the menu (completely on accident) and pretty much just has high society taste. She wanted a Cottage Core Aesthetic Birthday Party on our new covered porch. I was unaware of what "Cottage Core" even was prior to this request. You may be shocked to find out after reading this post that I tempered her requests quite a bit. We went all out on decorating the back porch with greenery and plants. She wanted picnic style finger foods.
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| Unfortunately, the flies were really bad and it was quite hot, but her birthday month has really unpredictable weather. One year we had a pool party and it was freezing! |
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| A friend of Genevieve's has a grandmother that makes and sells macarons. They were beautiful and delicious. |
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| Then it was picture time! |
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| I got a special picture with the birthday girl too! |
Then came to real fun. We did a mini Chopped Junior Sweets competition. I had basic baking ingredients available and each group got three of the same mystery ingredients that had to be used in a creative way to make a dessert. The ingredients were French Toast Crunch Cereal, dried cranberries, and a can of Pillsbury biscuits. While the girls cooked, they sang and danced and it was such a precious thing to watch!
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| Roman really enjoyed watching and dancing to their singing while they cooked. |
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| Group 1 |
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| Group 2 |
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| Group 3 |
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| This was the only one I got a picture of before I taste tested them as the judge. |
The mess left behind from this frantic cooking competition was so big and so deep that it took me the entire movie to clean the kitchen. The girls piled up on the trampoline and watched a movie on our projector outside. Luckily it had cooled down enough to enjoy this.
