Five Girls and a Bad Cake

I am linking up with Rebecca over at Simple As That today, for The Simple Things.

On Sundays we post our favorite picks of the week in photos. Because it was my daughter's Birthday week, it made it quite the challenging task, but here are my top five (and actually I think it started out being a that we post ONE photo from the week:) for The Simple Things.

Here is the dining room all decked out ready for a celebration.

Madelynn had her 5 closest friends over for a night of tacos, music, crafts, laughter, girl talk and movies.

Five girls.

 I love this shot I captured of my daughter, this is one of those pictures as parents where it's only us that can see what we feel, (know what I'm talking about? I know you do)

In the top left corner you can see the end of the pink balloon she was playing with!

and. . .here's where I talk for a minute about this cake. Looks good right? All homemade, and domestic-- on a pretty stand and all. .
well,(here's where my martha stewart skills lack)

don't be deceived.

 Long story short: 

*the recipe called for self rising flour which i thought all flours came with which apparently they do not and i used the regular flour i had on hand, and basically this cake is 2 very dense yellow pancakes.

the girls took one bite and threw the rest out.* phew!

{good thing I had Cookies N' Cream Ice Cream in freezer and Dr.Pepper in the fridge}

but for some reason, i actually liked the cake.

thanks for reading!