Well, we celebrated Garrick's BIG 30th Birthday way back in August.... But, I am finally now putting the pictures up. We had a really nice family day, we started out by picking up some deli sandwiches, having a picnic & playing a game of miniature golf, then because it was so HOT we got ourselves some nice tropical smoothies & then went home for a BBQ cookout & a homemade cake... Garrick ALWAYS requests that I make him a (completely homemade) cake on his birthday, this year was one of the more basic requests. Just a homemade yellow cake with homemade chocolate frosting. It was simple enough & made it with all organic ingredients... It turned out pretty good! I'm just glad I didn't have to make a German Chocolate again - that cake takes me 4 hours!!! :)

Golfing...

 Right after golfing....

 Someone is getting brave (she was starting to take a few steps)

 Picking some tomatoes to go with our dinner...

Homegrown Tomatoes = BEST TOMATOES EVER!!

 YUM!!!

 Sliders, spinach salad w/ goat cheese, cranberries & candied walnuts + loaded potato skins!

 The three-layered yellow cake w/ chocolate frosting...

 The fam...

 Noooooooo.... I swear, they didn't test-taste the frosting! hahaha!!

Baylee liked it too, her FIRST Birthday cake she's ever tried!! :)