Jillian's Quarter Century Party

So Jillian's team from work took joined us for a belated birthday party at Puerto Vallarta, Jillian's favorite Mexican food restaurant. All of Jillian's gifts centered around a bath theme- you see Jillian has a horrible phobia of bathing in a used bath (she is going to kill me for announcing this!). The only bath she has felt comfortable using as a bath was our first apartment because we were the first people to ever live there.

So Jillian's team gave her a metal tub, a duckie and a few other bath accessories so she could have her very own unused bath. They also gave her some cherry accessories for our cherry-themed kitchen. The real kicker was the cake.
The girls used a Baked By Design, a local lady who does incredible things with pastries. We first found out about her when she did Grant and Garrett's birthday cake last year. You can see it on her website- it is the cute hay bails. Everything on this cake was edible- the toilet paper, the duck, the rug, the soap, the brush. It's all fondant, and the details, down to the bristles on the brush, the word "soap" on the bar of soap, and every little bubble in the bath, were so intricate. And it wasn't just a cool looking cake-it was filled with delicious chocolate cake. Needless to say, Jillian's team uses her for all of their birthdays and it is always a surprise what she will come up with.


We enjoyed ourselves and stayed well into the evening visiting, eating cake (yes, we cut into it!), and gorging ourselves on Mexican food. It was a lot of fun!