1 year anniversary and a birthday

First Kiss as Husband and Wife

Today there is a birthday and an anniversary! It is my oldest son's 1st year anniversary. Happy Anniversary to Justin & Kristina and I wish you many more! This first year has gone by so quickly. The last I spoke to Justin he wasn't sure what they were doing on their special day....but rest assured, mom is going to be giving them a treat!

I want to share a few of my favorite photos of Justin & Kristina's wedding....ok, I can't help it you know...I am a mom ;-) ....so maybe more than a few! Here we go:

Justin with his brother Christopher waiting for Kristina to come down the aisle. My heart just fills to overflowing with love when I look at these two wonderful young men in my life. I'm such a lucky mom.

My silly son preparing to remove Kristina's garter....

I think this is an awesome photo of my mother with her 1st grandson

Justin knew I was close to crying and he was doing everything he could to be silly so I wouldn't cry. I came close but he succeeded in making me laugh! We danced to Blessed by Elton John.

Ok, so no crying going on here....just a bunch of silliness. Grumpy dancing with Justin :-)

The sunset photos at the end of the day

Looking out over the St. Lawrence River


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When Justin & Kristina set the date for their anniversary, little did they realize they were also going to be getting married on my Aunt Ann's birthday!

Happy Birthday Aunt Ann! The photo above is her with her partner Ron on Justin's wedding day and her birthday!


We had decided that we would go to Cranberry Lake for the day on July 4th this year to spend the day with my My Mom & Dad, Aunt Ann, Aunt Marlene & families. Justin & Kristina had their own plans and my poor little boy Christopher had to work. :-(


My Aunt Ann also loved Nanny's Mayonnaise Cake with Fluffy Frosting....so I decided to make these for her cupcake style and take them to camp. The fluffy frosting is pretty fragile so I decided to go with Dorie's Buttercream frosting we made with the Daring Bakers when we made the Perfect Party Cake. I also used some left over peanut butter frosting I had in the fridge -which turned out pretty awesome on the cupcake and I would make it that way again!


I am also submitting this recipe to the Family Recipes event for the month of July that I co-host with Laura of The Spiced Life. The deadline for submissions this month will be July25, 2009. To read more about this event CLICK HERE.


100 Chocolate Cake (or) Mayonnaise Cake
recipe from Mae Iris Whitton's recipe file

Note: I'm not sure why the cake is called 100 Chocolate cake on her recipe card - but we always called it mayonnaise cake.

2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
4 heaping tablespoons cocoa

Sift ingredients into a bowl.

Add:
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

This was all Nanny had written on her recipe card! I mixed the cake together as such:

Preheat oven to 350. Line cupcake pan with liners. After sifting together dry ingredients (and I did do this!) add all at once the mayo, water and vanilla. Mix until smooth. Spoon batter into cupcake liners. Bake for approximately 20 -25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. You can also bake this in two 8" round cake pans. I had to make 1-1/2 of the recipe to get 24 cupcakes.