burnt cake, lumpy frosting but still a cheerful birthday celebration: happiest 34th to the one i love

i've been screwing up preparing for yangkyu's birthday for a couple of years now. so this year, i vowed to throw him something decent. but things didn't go exactly as planned {i mean.. do they ever?}

i wasn't feeling in the best mood, which put a damper on things while planning. i started blowing up balloons late and had trouble tying the ends into knots. yangkyu came home and oy.. he ended up tying the knots and well.. ultimately decorating his own birthday celebration. 

the cake.. well.. thanks to trader joe's, it was the yummies tasting cake, but it did come at the price of cake batter oozing all over the oven and one burnt layer which had to be thrown out. {oops} i didn't sift the cocoa powder and confectionary sugar so there were lumps in the cake frosting. {double oops}

we ended the celebration early because i wasn't feeling too well, but we did manage to get in a few smiles and laughters here and there. 

i got him a pair of red {his favorite color} adidas kicks. he loved them. and loved telling me a folklore. apparently there is a saying in korean that if you get your partner shoes as a gift, they will wear them and run away. where do they come up with these things? 

thank you everyone for wishing yangkyu the happiest of birthdays. it's truly a special feeling to have the kind of love and support through the community here in the blogging world. 

hope you all enjoyed your weekend! it's official summer! huzzah!