birthday week...

This was a big week for birthdays in our house. Jase had his 1st birthday...which is always so fun and exciting! In honor of Thanksgiving, we have already been making Tai's famous cranberry sauce, which happens to be SO DELICIOUS on cheesecake. Since Jase loves cranberry sauce, we made him cheesecake for his birthday. He looks pretty satisfied with it, don't you think? In this picture, he had already picked off and eaten almost all the cranberries. All that is left is the cheesecake and the sauce. We had to add more cranberries for him :)



Okay, I guess I can't mention the famous cranberry sauce without including the recipe. So, here you go:
12 oz. package cranberries
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 2/3 cups gingerale
1/3 cup lemon juice
3 0z. package raspberry jello
Add all ingredients except the jello in a saucepan. Cook over medium high heat until the berries burst open. Remove from heat and add jello. Stir until dissolved. Refrigerate overnight. Enjoy!

Then, just two days later, we celebrated Addy's sixth birthday. When she woke up in the morning, BJ and Ben (the guy who rents the apartment across the hall from us) took her out shooting. Though she looks pretty fierce, her favorite part of the outing was actually collecting the empty shell casings. :)





After her expedition, we ate lunch and had a double layer birthday cake which BJ made for her. Addy wanted a wedding cake, but she was content with her double layer round funfetti cake :) Then, we headed into town so she could spend her birthday money. She chose to buy the Barbie Christmas movie. Then, we grabbed some dinner before heading over to the volleyball game. Overall, I think we had some pretty happy birthdays!