Happy Birthday & Graduation Mimi!

Happy Birthday & Graduation Mimi! Happy 18th Birthday to my sweet cousin Maxene and congratulations to you on graduating from Serra High School, class of 2011!! We are all so very proud of you and so happy to celebrate your accomplishments! Theres cupcakes are pound cake cupcakes with bavarian cream filling and Swiss Meringue frosting. Mimi's favorite colors are pink, lime green, and turquoise, so I colored the frosting with those colors. She really loves music and likes to play the guitar, so I made whimsical music notes, guitars, and groovy headphones! Also to celebrate the graduation, I made diplomas with blue ribbons to represent her school colors, and mortar boards with the blue tassle. The mortar boards are made of Ghiradelli squares and mini Reeses Peanut Butter cups. Everything else are made out of fondant with some gold luster dust on the diploma ribbons. For the cake, I decided to go back to basics and brush up on some piping and pipe on sunflowers because those are one of Mimi's favorite flowers! I used a black ribbon for the base border and made fondant swirlies in the middle of the sunflower bunch. I would like to give special thanks to my lovely assistants Natalia, Thien, and Khoa for all their help with these cupcakes! You guys rock and I love the enthusiasm! Once again, Happy Birthday and congratulations Mimi! We love you so much and we know you will succeed in anything you put your mind to! The sky's the limit Mimi!

For today's humor, it will be a joke that our little 5 year old cousin, Bao, told us today that is quite cute and funny:
Knock knock!
-Who's there?
Will
-Will who?
Will
-Will who?
Will
-WILL WHO?
Will ya please stop yelling???

Hehe. Happy Birthday and Graduation Mimi! =)