Jesus' Birthday Cake

Since Christmas is Jesus' birthday, Sage and I (Jaggar will participate one day) always bake a birthday cake for Him and leave a piece for Santa. For 2-3 years running, she has consistently chosen a pink cake with pink icing. I let her choose and that's what she goes for. Fine with me. We usually make it on Christmas Eve morning, but this year, that was pushed to the evening after all of our company left. It was a hectic Christmas Eve. As I said, Jaggar was pretty sick so our plans were kind of pushed around, but it still worked out. Here's some pictures and video of "the night before Christmas."

StirringAnd tasting


An explanation of that noise you heard in the background. This was his gift from my in-laws. Has there ever been a more perfect toy for this boy? Probably not.


And she's still tasting. :)

And the finished product. She was not in the mood for pictures. A Christmas Story had started on TBS, and she was very into that like our entire family is. We love that movie. Also, culinary me got brownie cream cheese icing to write so writing "Jesus" was very difficult. Have I mentioned how much I hate doing anything with food? Sage still hasn't mastered "sprinkling" the sprinkles, but I think that makes it all the more perfect.
Again, "sprinkling" the reindeer feed. You have to love this.
Then she gave Cara and Rudolph hugs goodbye because they would be going back to the North Pole. We had a very fun visit with that little elf this year. Sage was pretty sad for her to leave.
And everything was put into place for Mr. C. Both kids were off to bed. We gave Sage the usual speech of not calling us if it looked like it was still nighttime outside. :) She was so tired that she went right to sleep.