Nana's Birthday Celebration

Nana's birthday is Friday April 30th. We are busy that weekend so we decided to celebrate this Saturday. For Nana's birthday I made her a birthday dinner with appetizer, main meal and dessert. I made her homemade humus with homemade baked wheat tortilla chips, tilapia with a spicy mango sauce, buckwheat risotto, sliced pineapple and salad. For dessert I made a 4 tier chocolate cake layered with dark chocolate gonache and white chocolate cream and iced with a marshmallow cream frosting. It was yummy and can you say chocolate over load! That morning I made the cake part and Eli got to taste my efforts.







We decided we would leave for Nana and Papa's house after Eli's nap that day. When Eli woke up he was in a grumpy mood. He didn't want anything or do anything. Finally I asked him, "do you want to go to Nana and Papa's house?" and he got all excited and we could get him ready fast enough. To get to my parent's house you have to go down 1488 and it is under construction. Eli is really into trucks and tractors right now so the whole way there we hear from the back seat, "truck" and "tractor" in his cute way of saying it! We had a fabulous time celebrating Nana's birthday. Eli even stayed up till 8 that evening. He was having so much fun we just didn't have the heart to put him to bed at his bed time. Eli also gave Nana a birthday gift. He had finger painted with the paints he got for Easter and gave his 1st picture to Nana.