a thing in 338 photos cake The cake was SWIMMING in condensed milk. OMG. Happy birthday, Sarah! We love you! Hope all your wishes come true! Happy birthday, Peter! Peanut Butter Bomb cake for dessert. Gurj getting ready to serve up the density. ...and to celebrate Chris' birthday! Happy birthday, Fatty Dave! Lol. Shy about her birthday cake, awww. Getting ready to cut the cake! That's one sexy-ass cheesecake! Happy birthday, Cynthia! We love you! <3 Thanks for planning a great surprise, Shawn! ...a chef's coat and an apron! Make a wish! Cake time! Then it was time for our 4-way assorted birthday cake! This camera sort of sucked in low light. Cell phones were eating away at the camera market and they started putting in cheaper light-sensing chips! Anyway, still sort of love the pics! We love you, Ellen! <3 Make a wish! ...sing Happy Birthday to Ellen! And then we all got into the living room to... Happy birthday, Max! Lol, so excited about cake. Peanut Butter Bomb cake slice for dessert, omg. Chocolate cake with coconut cream? Fuuuuuu Cake cutting! Make a wish! (Which was probably to leave NYC really soon!) Happy birthday, Ellen! ...Hans sneaked out of the bedroom with a lit cake! ...SUPERHANS! Happy birthday... ...for the big birthday cake surprise! Happy 40th, Philip! ...THE KLEEERB! ...who took me to an excellent birthday house party ...and they surprised me with a birthday cake. Thanks, guys! You all are the best! ...and celebrate Kim's brithday! ...we came inside for some ridiculous birthday cake! Happy birthday (several weeks later), Karen! Happy birthday, Jeet! We love you! Look at the cake that Hans made! So wonderful (wunderbar). ...to celebrate Gurj's birthday! Welcome back dear... ...Bell End! Haha. After dinner, there was even a surprise welcome back cake! Skull & Crossbones ice-cream cake for my 12th birthday, August 1988. Don't pet my broken back! No baby in my piece! With a King Cake! Did I mention it was filled with three different flavors of PUDDING? Feeling the cake-love. Hans made Sarah this amazing choc, strawberry & vanilla Groundhog's Day cake! ...Sarah's birthday! ...surprise 40th birthday party! Ann and her four daughters! Happy birthday, Grandma! Did it in one breath! Ninety candles, here we go! After cutting us slices... Oh, did I mention he also made dessert? Cake-free faces... Nobody smashed cake into anyone's face or anything. Very well-behaved! Time for some cake-cutting! Friday was my 38th birthday! Jane baked me chocolate-covered peanut-butter rice crispy treats (an Iowan delicacy!) Happy 30th, Leigh! Spraaankles. Wishin! What? How do you eat cake? ...got to watch this one make a wish. Happy birthday, Catrinel! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GURJEET! Every year Siege wishes for the same thing... Katie with the cake! Happy birthday, Quinn! We love you! The best part about a friend's birthday is when you get to secretly order them a FLAMING dessert.... Two innings down! Happy birthday, Kai! ...the spread! Mmmmm. Check out... ...but they kept it from getting to out-of-hand! It only devolved into a little bit of mutual cake-face smashing... If was really funny to watch Jared & Gurj have a "Don't you dare smash cake in my face or I'll smash cake in your face" stand-off! Time to cut the cake! ...t-minus eight-weeks until my nephew Max shows up! ...Congrats, Amy & Brett.... The gang surprised me with a belated birthday cake! Thanks everyone! ...Leigh's birthday! So good. Happy birthday, Mer! After the opening sparkler salvo, a cake with a candle came out! I don't have any pictures of the dinner potluck, but I did manage to snap this pic of the crazy dessert spread! Gluten-free birthday cake! ;) ...New House!