Happy Birthday!

Wow! Can you say fabulous!????

This is the birthday cake that The Sports Fan's step-mother made for my mom's 95th birthday party last night! She is a pastry chef and she makes Outrageous Cakes for all sorts of occassions.

Here's Nana with the cake and The Sports Fan at our table at our favorite Outback on Bell Road in Glendale, AZ. Yes, that is a lipstick and compact made of fondant in front of the gorgeous handbag that made my newest Dooney look sad. She even put Nana's initials on the little fondant powderpuff that is inside the compact!

And I do want to mention that this cake was absolutely delicious on the inside as well as on the outside! The cake was a rich chocolate and the frosting between the layers of cake was a white chocolate cream cheese frosting. This is one extremely talented woman!

Of course, you can't see our wonderful cake maker in the photo. Fat old me takes up a lot of room in this one. My pal the Chicster is next to me and I'm disgusted to see that I take up a good 20% of this photo's area!

Doesn't my mom look great? She turned 95 yesterday!!!


Here she is in her room at the care center with the incredible roses and alstromeria sent by my sister and her husband to mark the occassion.

Here is a favorite photo of Nana in her younger days, when she was the spitting image of Loretta Young, one of the most beautiful movie stars ever to grace a Hollywood sound stage.

The best part was that Nana had a blast at her party and so did we all.