May I Share A Few Pictures From My Mother's 90th Birthday Celebration. The Entire Weekend Was So Much Fun.

It was so much fun the entire weekend. Well, I purchased and returned 2 different printers for photographs taken from phones before I even left on this trip. Both just were not right for the purpose needed this weekend. I was left to go on the trip with my Fuji Instax camera and what a great idea that was. One of my great nieces had free reign in taking pictures for my mother's tree of life gift given to her. What is a tree of life? There is a picture or two of it. I found a light up decorative tree months ago when I got this idea...….we will take picture throughout the weekend and then place them on the tree with colorful clothes pin to anchor them. So I was on a mission to get fun film for the camera. I purchased stripes, polka dots and rainbow colored borders that the picture are set in. I also got a pack of film that was printing black & white prints. It was fun but not as great a picture as the colored pictures are. What do you think?
The strawberry cake with the frosting everyone loved the way it tasted but it was a disaster when I frosted it. The layers began to slide and actually move when I put the frosting on it. After frosted we then froze it to keep it in place. I have made this cake several times before and it turned out lovely each time. I do not know what happened (I think the high humidity had something to do with it. All I could do was laugh about putting this cake together) but everyone said it tasted great. The cake that I ordered turned out just fine. I will include a picture of the coconut cream cake. The grandchildren presented Nana with a book they compiled in honor of her 90th birthday. That truly touched her heart and tears flowed. I found as one of her gifts a silver rosary from Mexico because it had Our Lady Of Guadalupe as part of the rosary and the cross was enclosed with tiny flowers. My mother went on a pilgrimage to Guadalupe years ago and was touched on that trip so I thought this would bless her. So much fun seeing everyone but not so fun when you have to give the hugs and kisses goodbye. My mother has beautiful memories from this special event in honor of her 90th birthday. It is a bit early but it was the best time when everyone could get together. Enjoy the pictures and if your parents are still alive bless them with telling them you love them. If they are no longer alive here on earth then send kisses of love from you to heaven to bless them ok.

Don't mind some of the picture quality shown ok. I took pictures of the pictures taken, trust me when I say the pictures turned out fine from this little camera. Some of the pictures taken were actually selfie type pictures. This camera has a little mirror image that allows you to take and see the image the picture will take. Great fun with this camera. Oh the cake Whole Foods made was much more pretty than the picture captures. You really cannot see the flowers that were decorated behind the 90 candles. Did you know Papyrus brand makes lovely candles for cakes? They are a little more expensive but well worth the money spent on them. You can also purchase them at least at this Whole Food store location in the bakery section by the pastry cases on the counter.