Cupcake Carnage on Planet Lane

Basically it was 24-hours of food on the day celebrating Lane's birth.

We started the night before Lane's birthday, letting the children devour their chocolate Halloween cupcakes.

After massive clean-up and suspicious looking bath water from the chocolate fest, I started planning the food prep for Lane's birthday Tuesday morning.

He had to work, so, of course, my hands would be slightly tied on the matter.

But we started with our now-traditional birthday breakfast of donuts.

Lane let Jane blow out his candle (since she was under the impression it was her birthday) and she did a fabulous job singing the entire birthday song.

Now, you can't see their donuts (in Elliot's case, because his was almost gone 2 minutes after we started), but Jane had sprinkles on hers and ate them one at a time followed by a "mmm, it's good."

I followed up the donuts by making Lane's favorite banana bread, which we presented to him after we met him at work to take him to lunch -- a gourmet fest at Wendy's (because that's how we roll).

Then the evening had hamburgers the size of our heads and a Razzleberry pie that I made from scratch for my wonderful husband.

He told one well-wishing caller it felt like he was on Planet Lane. I really hope so. He's low key about everything, but he is my world and I wanted him to feel that.