August Round Up

Welcome to another addition of the August Birthday Round Up.  We have celebrated a few milestones this year.

We started off the month, the first to be exact, with Hank's birthday.  He turned a very proud 85.

In case you were wondering I made another Dorie Greenspan cake, Perfect Party Cake,  It was a vanilla cake, raspberry filling, buttercream frosting and coconut on top.  Hank requested pineapple upside down cake for next year, I can do that.

Jacob made Zaide that award to see there.  I think everyone can expect a 3D modeling gift this year.

We celebrated Michael (49th) and Jacob's (12th) birthdays together this year, as far as cake baking is concerned.  When your wife is involved in a baking club there is always something sweet in the house.  We had just polished off a Cherry Crumb Tart and another cake was just not needed. Michael decided he could suffer the 5 days until the next cake.

Jacob asked for a hamburger cake this year.  I searched the web hoping I could find one I could make, cake decorating is not my forte. Thanks to the Food Network I found a doable cake with a tutorial.  It came out better than expected.

Scott said he wanted one of these beauties for his birthday next year.  I said this cake was not worthy of a 50th birthday party but then again I am speaking to The BBQ King.

I tried to get the September birthday girl to pick out a cake for her birthday. She decided on a box cake mix with canned frosting.  Sigh, you can't win the all...

First Day of School

Tuesday was the first day of 7th grade.  Jacob seemed to have survived the experience.  This year he is taking drama, technology, English, world history, honors math and life science.  I am sure he will have more to share on Saturday.

Given that he is in a uniformed school the pictures are not going to change much.  He is taller this year!

CicLAvia

SO. MUCH. FUN.  We participated in CicLAvia this year since it was in our own backyard.  It was titled Culver City meets Venice.  The route was from Venice Blvd, to Centinela to Washington Blvd and ended at National Blvd.  We took it from Lincoln then went East to National and back again.  We skipped going down to the beach.  

This is the intersection of Sepulveda and Washington Blvd.

The end and our turn around site.

Venice Blvd free of cars. Jacob took a video of the experience under the freeway and uploaded it to Youtube.