This post is all about birthday cake.

We spent the last week of July up in the mountains of NC vacationing with the Webber side of the family. There are a disproportionate number of Leos in our family, Seamus and me included, and we found time in one week to celebrate 4 out of 5 of those birthdays. (Leo #5 couldn’t be there that week, otherwise we could have spent 5 out of 6 nights eating cake!)

Bryan, Seamus and I slept in an RV for the week and we decided to have Seamus’ birthday party at the campground where we were staying. Getting to celebrate his birthday with family around was the best part. But the second best part was this awesome cake we got him from Lowes Foods. I had one of those surreal moments as I flipped through a book of laminated cake photos in the grocery store. I studied each of the sugary bright cake as I narrowed it down to one with a John Deere tractor.  I can remember so well doing that as a kid, picking out my own birthday cake, which usually came from Baskin Robbins. Those were always a treat. And here I was picking out Seamus’ cake and I was much more excited about it than he was.

I limited my expectations because I know how these things work. You pick out the most awesome thing in the book and then in reality, the cake you get is a mere nod to what you thought you were going to get. Or they spell your child’s name wrong. But in this case, I was pleasantly surprised. No Cake Wrecks for this one.

It’s really hard to be a parent/participant AND photographer. I multi-tasked myself to death trying to be a host, parent and photographer at the party. This isn’t a typical shot I would take, I’d normally be much closer to the action, but I kind of like it anyway.

That’s my boy! Sampling the icing while no one is looking.

Bryan did most of the cooking as he is a much better cook than I! I just pick out cakes.

The aftermath…