Happy 15th Birthday Kristin!

Kristin celebrated her birthday Thursday night with her friends when they came over and spent the night.  They ate pizza, went to the park, did girl things like do each other's make-up and hair, stuff like that.  This morning, her actual birthday,  Kristin wanted to make her own cake and had previously picked out a recipe so I could have all the ingredients for her.  At first she told me that she wanted to make either lemon squares or chocolate/peanut butter cake so imagine my surprise when she told me she wanted to make sweet potato cheesecake!  I was like really????  But since I wasn't making it I went and bought everything for it and here she is this morning making it.

It was an all day event!  The crust needed to be baked, the sweet potatoes had to be baked for an hour and then cooled and then the actual cheesecake had to be made and baked.  Then once all that was done a topping had to be made and put on top of the cheesecake before it could be placed in the refrigerator to set. 

Kristin went to Timothy's again this year for dinner and not long after coming home from that we got her cake out to sing happy birthday.  Lauren was in charge of lighting the candles.  Too bad she doesn't know how to use a match!

See her lovely cheesecake?  It came out looking beautiful.
Happy birthday to you.  Happy birthday to you.  Happy birthday dear Kristin.  Happy birthday to you!

See those couple of candles that didn't go out?

After huffing and puffing on them she realizes that they are trick candles.

That was Lauren's idea to do that since Kristin loves gag gifts.  As for the cake, the middle was not quite firm but that's probably because it needed to stay in the refrigerator longer.  The taste of it was delicious though!  Good choice Kristin!  Hope you had a happy 15th birthday!