Happy Birthday Mom!

WARNING: If you light 52 trick candles (that do not blow out) and put then on a 8 inch round cake, it will catch on fire and turn into creme brulee... from experience

Okay, so today was my mom's 51st birthday. We wanted to do it up big since turning 51 is not as special as turing 50.. so we devised a devious plan....

My sister bought her a 8 inch round cake with buttercream frosting and we decided to put all 51 candles on that small little cake plus one for good luck. Now since her age is old (but trust me, she is anything but) we wanted to tease her to see if she could blow out all 52 candles at once. Now we both knew her lungs were heathly enough to do it, so instead we bought 52 trick candles ! ! ! They are the ones that don't blow out!

So today I stuck all 52, I mean 53 (we added two for good luck)and lit them all which took about 2 minutes to do. The candles were so close together that they gave off a massive amount of heat melting (and burning) the cake, they also gave off enough smoke to set off the smoke alarm!!! Now the next part was all caught on camera!!

My mom took a deep breath and blew out all the candles, however...they came back and she tried it a second and third time, then my brother and I joined in the battle. Then we came to the realization... how are we going to put out 53 trick candles?
The candles were spitting all over her nice new white table cloth, my sister (who is afraid of the fire, {these candles were her idea}) had to leave the room with a slight panic attack. The dogs were running around because of our excitement, the candles were burning down to the cake....OH NO they are setting the cake on fire!! They are burning the cake. I was about to lift the cake into the kitchen to set it down on the counter (which does not have a flamable table cloth) when my dad came to the rescue!!!....with a pair of pliers and a bowl of water. And in a fit of laughter he grabbed each buring candle one by one and dunked it in the water. After about 5 minutes all of the candles were relieved of their birthday duties and enjoyed a nice cool bath in a soup bowl.
Fearing my mom's birthday was ruined my sister suggested for her to open her presents (however it was not ruined!! she had a wonderful day and this spectaulor just added to the laughter and memories we are all sure to always have)
As she opened her presents, I examined the cake carefully.. CREME BRULEE I screamed, and dove into the cake with a spoon.

I think next year we will either get a bigger cake, or use fewer candles....maybe by next year my nose hairs will grow back :)

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P.S. and for the next 20 minutes my brother and I stood in the hallway, waving jackets and towels to try to get the smoke detectors to stop!
-At least we know they work?!