birthday preparations

We are deep in E's birthday preparations. We made two batches of chocolate cupcakes using the Magnolia Bakery recipe thanks to Kecia who introduced me to these - along with their buttercream frosting. The turned out fantastic! Since E is having a climbing party at a rock gym, he wanted "rocks" on the cupcakes so he crushed up some oreos for the tops. Half got the rock treatment and half didn't - you never know who might balk at eating "rocks." The wine in the picture by the way, isn't E's!
Birthday party - here we come!