Happy Birthday Uncle Ra Ra

On Saturday we hosted a birthday party for the boys beloved Uncle Brad aka Uncle Ra Ra. The boys were very excited for the party and as always, they loved to help in the kitchen.

One of our most important jobs was making a chocolate cake with

chocolate frosting which was specifically ordered by the birthday boy.

Always true to our nature, there was much adventure along the way. I am not sure if I have mentioned this on the blog before, but Max LOVES our Kitchen aide mixer. If anyone is using it, look out because Max will be right in the middle of that action. So as making the cake was a family affair Max was "helping" me make the frosting. I added some of the ingredients and he turned on the mixer for me. I added the cocoa powder and then turned away for one second and BLAMMO, Max turned the mixer on high and the kitchen was covered with chocolate powder. Everyone got very quiet, with the exception of Max's exclamation of "UH OH!"

No problem, kitchen was cleaned up and we were onto getting the frosting onto the cake. Both of the boys enjoyed this part of the process because they got to lick the beater clean. Dan arrived home from the store with the requested spinkles and all was going smoothly. Suddenly Dan yells, "NO!!!!" and I turn to find that Max had reached up and taken the bottle of sprinkes off the counter and decided to decorate the carpet.

In the end we ended up with this beauty and man was it tastey!
By the way, those sprinkles made it onto the cake before the rest hit the floor : )