If a picture is worth a thousand words, I thought this essay would be my first 5 figure word count. Watching our home movies, the only reliable scene each year is the blowing out of the candles on a birthday cake. Even though that's always in the videos, I don't neglect the stills. I really end up more comfortable with the still shot than the video; perhaps it's because our pictures are always doing a slide show on the monitor in the kitchen and we get to see them all the time. Anyway, I've got some good birthday cake pictures.
Here are some fancy store-bought wedding cakes, both for M&F's original in 1960 and the anniversary party this summer.
And of course, the wedding of the century in 1983.
For a bridge party early after we moved to the ATL, MA made a cake with edible flowers. Really.
But I digress - back to birthday cakes.
Eleanor's first birthday cake was a replica of what Granny Pearl used to make for Mary Anne - pound cake, pink icing and animal crackers.
Caroline is so cute at sister Sophia's 29th that it doesn't matter that the cake was a store bought from Rhodes Bakery. They did do a good job with their cakes, however.
By the late teens, the girls started making the cakes, and they got pretty artistic.
Mrs. Majors made a Humpty Dumpty for Eleanor's 16th:
Eleanor made a cake that looked like the Mercury Villager minivan for Caroline's 15th:
Elmo was Eleanor's 17th:
We had a dinasour/beach theme for boyfriend Bill's 20th:
This one may be my favorite. Bill made a cake that looked like Sparky for Caroline's 20th:
