Happy Birthday, Benjamin!

Those of you who pay attention to Benjamin's preferences know that his favorite color is green. So today, for his 19th birthday, he got three ties, and two of them were green. We don't have any announcements to make on the mission front, but he has started the paperwork (all online, so no paper is involved, but you know) so we hope to know before we move when and where he'll be going.

His preference for green apparently extends to flavors, and the brave young man repeated his request for a lime cake, and we also had mint chocolate chip ice cream. I have tried before to make a lemon chiffon cake, just substituting lime everywhere it said lemon, with pretty awful results. If I recall correctly, that had something to do with not reading the recipe carefully enough. Well, I've now made this recipe four times and it gets better each time. And I think I can say it was a success today! No dense, chewy layer in the middle. I frosted it with whipped cream flavored with a little lime juice, and it was ok, not overpowering like whatever I tried last time.

Anyway, Benjamin has now finished his freshman year at the University of Utah, majoring in Computer Engineering, and he's getting ready to move on a bit. Happy birthday, Benjamin!