Family Fridays #18 Brittany
Today is the 18th Family Friday and I recently mentioned we're switching things up a bit. Instead of just sharing recipes on Fridays, I want us all to share about our family traditions as well. All of our families are so different and I want to here what makes yours special!I'm very excited to share one of my families traditions with you today. Growing up, I thought everyone did this for their kid's birthdays. When my husband I got married, he gave me the funniest look when I asked him to buy a smash cake for our son's first birthday. 
A smash what?In my family, we always give kids a smash cake for their birthdays. We have one cake for everyone to eat and one for the birthday child to destroy. It's the funnest part of our parties! We all sing, then put the cake on the highchair tray, and watch to see what they do. Everyone loves it and the kids think it's the best! Some kids are more willing to dig in than others. My middle child Levi wasn't so sure until his daddy shoved his face in it. Then he thought it was the funniest thing and started digging in and throwing cake at all of our guests! He had a wide interpretation of what a smash cake was. We were cleaning cake off the ceiling for days after.
As you can see in the picture, they just hate it. They don't have any fun. Blending traditions isn't always an easy task. Sometimes you both have traditions you value and have to figure out a way to combine them or choose. My husband's family also has a birthday tradition. After they sing their three versions of the Happy Birthday song (yes three) they each hand feed the birthday person. It's a very sweet tradition because it really shows them how loved and valued they are. We contemplated how to include both in our birthday parties. We ended up deciding to hand feed them from the smash cake and then let them dig into the rest. It's been fun to show both of our families new traditions and to start new birthday traditions of our own.