Celebrating

Around here it's always somebody's birthday and we always celebrate with a large family dinner.  Tonight is no different with the adult children, our son's lovely wives/girlfriends, grand children, grandparents and family dogs coming over to celebrate our son's 24th birthday. Everyone chips in to help making it a much easier process with the younger crew especially eager to help.

The younger ones each made a card for their big brother between taking turns helping make dinner and dessert.  For dessert I found these delicious looking cakes at http://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/ which come highly recommended from this family.

First we made the brownies (we made ours from scratch) in 2 batches as I didn't have 4 pans in the correct size which worked great giving some one on one cooking time with 2 volunteers.  Next we made the "ice cream" and compiled both cakes with volunteer 3 and 4.  The kids always enjoy cooking time so these  were the ideal recipes for 4 to get some one on one cooking time and they were so proud telling the birthday "boy" they made his cakes.  Others helpers helped with prepping veggies, making the gravy, setting the table and the clean up.

The dinner and dessert were amazing, many could not decide which one they wanted and ended up having a piece of both.

You can find the recipes here http://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/2013/05/28/snickers-peanut-butter-brownie-ice-cream-cake/ and here http://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/2013/07/11/mint-oreo-brownie-ice-cream-cake/

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