Kerry's 47th birthday

This past Sunday, Kerry celebrated his 47th birthday. Can you believe it? Most people can't, but it is true!

He started the weekend off with a fishing trip on Saturday with his Dad and he also took Kaylee and Kason with him (a separate to fishing "post" to follow soon). And ended the weekend off with a party at this sister's home here in town.

As you can see to the right, this is his cake that I made. We started to cut into it and realized he hadn't blown out candles. Which explains the slice right down the middle.

Here's a picture of the cake before candles and picture of the inside after we all dove into it.

The cake was a vanilla flavored cake mix with a container of blueberry yogurt put directly into the batter. It gave the cake a really pretty lavendar blue-ish hue to it. Two of my favorite colors by the way. (I know, I know, the cake wasn't for me. This was Kerry's cake, not mine. But I still loved it!) I then boiled down some fresh blueberries in a sauce pan and added a small amount of cornstarch to it to make it thicken. Then I cooled the blueberry sauce down and it became spreadable like jam. I used that in between the cake layers and frosted the cake with a favorite frosting recipe that I got from a friend a long time ago. It's one large container of cool whip and one dry package of white chocolate pudding mix. YUM! Then I piped dollops of the frosting on top to hold the fresh blueberries in place so they wouldn't roll off the cake. Then as you can see I placed more blueberries around the outside of the cake for extra decoration. Okay, you are hearing it now, people... this cake was so scrumptious! Very light, not too sweet and the fresh blueberries were the most delightful. If you want the recipe, let me know.

Kerry's family talked him into a "spanking machine" line. So here's Kerry trying to make his way through the line of kids (not working very well) as they all give him their birthday spanks. He said they STUNG!
He also got a nice gift from his parents this year. It was a "fish finder" device that will come in handy this year as he is going to try to go fishing more often.

All in all Kerry's birthday was a nice one this year. I remember way back when...when Kerry and I were trying to decide what date to set for our wedding. There were concerns from his family about us getting married to soon to his birthday. Well, that hasn't bothered us one bit and has worked out just great for us. It gives us twice the reason to go do something extra special.

Kerry may be approaching the big "50", but he still has youthful energy to him. He's been very consistent with his visits to the gym, he plays church ball and drinks his flax seed and fruit smoothies in the morning. The only real side effect of this time in his life is that he was prescribed eyeglasses last year. And has been struggling with a bad arm. But for the most part he's a healthy guy. And may he have many more happy birthdays to come.