One of the great parts of moving to Seattle is the fact that many of my good high school friends also live here. Things have changed a<em> little</em> since then.

These days:
<ol>
	<li>We drink coffee now and if we want to, we can drink alcohol.</li>
	<li>Some of us are married. Well, actually everyone except me.</li>
	<li>We own our own cars and we get to drive on the highway.</li>
	<li>We do our own laundry and we make our own meals.</li>
	<li>We have our own places and are responsible for locking our doors at night.</li>
	<li>The stork has been busy delivering babies. Really cute ones.</li>
</ol>
This past weekend, we had a little party recently to celebrate the imminent arrival of not one but two new babies.

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Twins! That's a lot of baby all at once. <!--more-->
We made cakes to celebrate. A frosted vanilla cake, mini-cheesecakes and a lemon-yogurt cake! So much cake. I made the lemon-yogurt cake in a bundt pan. You can just see it on the far corner of the table. (I used this recipe for <a title="Yogurt Cake" href="http://chocolateandzucchini.com/recipes/cakes-tarts/yogurt-cake-recipe/" target="_blank">Gâteau au Yaourt</a> and substituted lemon juice and lemon zest for the rum.)
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The party was super small. We played a single game: guess how many M&amp;Ms are in the jar. I ate a few just to add a little more excitement and guess-work to the game. Just kidding. I'd have been in big trouble if I'd done that.
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Mostly, we chatted and ate cake. Lots of it. The whole thing was great fun--simple and beautiful. The perfect way to celebrate.

Sure I may have eaten too much cake and felt a little woozy afterwards but it was worth it.