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Friday, November 4, 2011

Let them eat cake

In the 15th century, bakeries in Germany conceived the idea of marketing one-layer cakes for customers' birthdays as well as for only their weddings, and thus the modern birthday cake was born.  The traditional Olen birthday contains a cake from Ohlins Bakery in Belmont.  Below are a collection of pictures of celebrating birthdays with a bit of cake.

Classic pose set against some classic curtains

Little known fact - Kathy is a huge Flinstones fan
Wait a minute - that is not an Ohlin's cake !

No pants required to blow out the candle.

Nothing like a couple of pickles with your princess cake. 



Was this a "Wear your favorite San Francisco shirt" party ?

Who ordered the personal size batman cake ?
This is the start of the goody bag hyper inflation period. 

I would give $100 to still have that Planet of the Ape cup 
Everybody should spend their fiftieth with Brad

Combining the three kids birthdays into one party looked good on paper...

Never too old for the Pooh Bear napkins.  Jeff foreshadowing his decision to live in Texas. 
Karen doing the birthday party - Maine style !

Dede airing her grievances.   Wait....haven't I seen that Winnie the Pooh gear somewhere....
We called this the Moses cake


Not sure whose birthday this is but if they were really loved they would have gotten an Ohlin's cake. 


Obviously my guests did not get the memo about the attire for my birthday.  

One more piece !

Apparently I was the soloist for the Happy Birthday song
$5 that I was the one who spilled my orange soda in the middle of the table.

I had tuba lungs at a young age - look at me blow that flag straight.

2 comments:

  1. Dear Greg,

    I did not think there were that many pictures of Olen birthdays, but 5 x 18 is about 90. Obviously I was not invited to any of them as there is no documentation to support my attendance.

    My 70th made up for not being at any of my children's parties.

    love

    dad and nancy

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