Pristine's 11th

My daughter, Pristine turns 11 last week. Since it was a weekday, I was supposed to bring food and some party souvenirs to school—to have a simple celebration with her classmates, just like last year. But I was too tired and didn't have that much energy to shop and prepare every stuff that was needed. Someone suggested that maybe we could just have a pizza party at home instead—in that way, effort is lesser and we could just spend a day-out on the weekend.

To cut it short, I had to bake eight large pizzas to satisfy my family's monster tummies. It was supposed to be 10 pizzas, but I got knocked down on the 8th. LOL

The best thing about pizza is you can toss everything together, from bacon to bell peppers. But I had to make Hawaiian pizzas since it's the only flavor Pristine would eat, opposite of Julianna, whom would eat everything, even anchovy.

I also baked two random cakes, a Meringue cake for Pristine, which is perfect looking through the glass of the oven, until it was time to pull it out. Upon pulling the cake out, its surface hit the upper part of the oven. My perfectly perfect Meringue cake almost turned into a disaster—just like that! So I lost my appetite to prettify it, just covered the torn part with glittery heart toppers.

The other one I baked was a chocolate cake for our puppy Roca. Yes, she turns one, not exactly on the same date, but I thought it would be best to bake for the two celebrants at one time. 

 I wanted to put names and design their cakes because I still have Wilton's frosting in different colors. But because of all the lost energy from the pizza wrestling match and the disappointing meringue cake experience, I felt anything I touch next would become even disastrous. However, the taste was the saving grace. They were both sinfully delicious, especially the Meringue cake! I was a bit surprised because both of them were random recipes in mind. I baked accordingly to the ingredients on hand.

I originally planned to take the kids to Seriland on the weekend since I've just recently learned about it through a blogging friend, Anney. I showed the pics to her, she liked it, but she said, it's for younger kids and we could always go some other time. She just wanted to spend a whole afternoon at any ice skating rink, and since she's the master of the moment, we spent the whole Sunday afternoon there..

My niece, Aubrey, Julianna, and Pristine

Aside from swimming, Pristine loves skating too. And she expressed how she wanted to take up figure skating lessons. Maybe in summer, she could take up lessons with Julianna and her cousin. The traffic we would have to brave just in case, is not a joke, just to be able to reach the nearest ice skating rink.

Pristine

Julianna

The hungry skaters!

Okay, and a tired mama deserves a new hair color! hehe

Have a good day, everyone!