I'm a couple days late for Kelli Ann's Flashback Friday, but I liked her topic for this week, so better late than never.  Her son's birthday was Friday, so her flasback focussed on his past birthdays, specifically cakes.  I was the opposite of her...I started Samuel with store-bought cakes and then made the foray into homemade.  His fifth birthday is in July and we haven't settled on a theme yet, but that will dictate whether I try it again this year. 

Here is his first birthday trying cake and icing for the first time.  Really this was the first time he had anything sweet that was not a fruit.

One of his favorite toys he got at his first birthday was his Little People Farm, so I decided on a farm theme and added similar farm animal toys to the bakery cake.

The next year he wanted a Cars birthday, like the movie, except that this was the summer the movie came out and I couldn't find a bakery with a Cars theme cake.  So I went online and found this cute race track cake which I thought looked easy enough and then I added Cars diecast cars that I bought at Toys R Us.  It wasn't that easy, but everyone thought it was cool that I even tried it and Samuel was still young enough not to be embarrassed by my efforts.

Last year, we tried the Mystery Machine and it was fun.  I also made cupcakes and tried a tie-dye effect with the icing but it just looked like rainbow colored spider webs.  I can't take credit for this idea either, it came from another web search.

So here's our birthday flashback, and check back near the end of July to find out what we did for Number 5!