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Today is John's birthday. Last year of his 20's! I can't believe we will have know eachother/been together for all of our 20's. I am so lucky to have John as a husband, he really couldn't get any better (most days ha ha). For instance he never leaves the seat up on the toilet seat and ALWAYS makes the bed before he goes to work so I come home in the morning to a freshly made bed to sleep in after working all night! I can't say I do the same for him... but I try! He is also so good at doing things around the house and taking care of the dogs. He is going to be a great dad!

So, since we had store bought cake last week with John's family, I figured I would try making something for him since I have the day off. I found a recipe for maple bar cake, and thought it sounded good since that happens to be his favorite donut. Well, it didn't go as smoothly as I would have hoped. The cake took way longer to cook than instruction said, and the icing was supposed to be poured on while it was still hot. Oh and I didn't add as much butter to the frosting recipe as it called for. (The intructions were screwed up) It wasn't the prettiest cake ever, but I dressed it up with a little white icing and candy and it does look quite a bit better. I just hope it tastes ok! Here is a couple pictures of it:

You can see how the maple frosting is pretty uneven over the cake. I think it had gotten too hard in the pot waiting for the cake to finish!

Happy birthday John! I love you!

p.s. The Happy birthday pic is actually a card from an etsy seller! http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15021363