concerts and half birthdays

yesterday was my half birthday. so i made a cake. i saw the cutest idea online about half birthday cakes. i wanted to make one similar to this:

i started making the cake and decided that purple icing would make it fun and exciting. {plus i love purple.} but instead of having a cute cake with purple icing my final product was this:

i made the icing too heavy for the fragile cake. fail. the fact that i added a 3rd tier didn't help either. fail. and the icing turned into a gray-purple. fail. by the picture you can see that i tried to salvage it by holding it up with my hands. fail. although the construction of my funfetti half birthday cake failed, it was quite delicious. win!

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mj was up in logan for an alumni concert with her sister tammy and their long-time piano friend adam. they did such a good job. i love hearing them sing.

the performance hall was crowded with the lees and castletons. it was fun.

{photo shots in the perf. hall while waiting for something to happen....}