Birthday Party! (9/5/11)

Last night Lynn, Stuart, Hailey and Ian Jackson came to spend the night so Lynn could teach Kyla how to make a fondant covered cake. Luella's been watching way too many cake shows on TV like Cake Boss and Ace of Cakes. She wants a three layer princess cake with gumballs because Kyla set five years old as the age to chew gum. Kyla's been watching those shows too much too, because she wants to try!

Kyla, Lynn and Ian woke up early to work on making cakes for Kati and Luella. Kati is getting a Mickey Mouse cake and our model is as big as Ian!

The party started and the parents stayed upstairs while the kids played downstairs.

Luella's "boyfriend" Aiden came to the party and needed encouragement to join all the girls and festivities.

It's a sea of pink and purple Minnie Mouse and Princess dresses! Poor Eddie is the only boy brave enough to make it downstairs!

We started with lunch because the party started at noon.
We got as many as we could seated around the table.
The rest of the kids ate in the living room.
Eating on the couch, quite the treat on a regular day!
BFFs around an end table.
Pink-wearing girls at the coffee table.
Most of the dads outside grilling the "hot diggity dogs" and having great conversations.
We had everyone make bows, hair bands for girls, ties for boys. Then we played pin the flower on Minnie or cutie mark on the pony. After that was musical chairs with coloring pages. It didn't work so great after many kids didn't want to go out.
Here is the three-tiered castle princess cake Lynn and Kyla decorated from 7-11 am this morning! Not bad for a first attempt at fondant!
We forgot to figure out positions for the candles on the cake.
Another close-up of the cake.
Kyla's first fondant attempt was Mickey's shoes, pants, bow tie and face. She piped the rest.
Singing the Happy Birthday song to Kati with her colorful flame candles!
There's just something about men, fire and food. Jeff took back his lighter to light Luella's birthday candles.
Luella made a wish and blew out her candles!
Kyla took pictures of most of the party-goers. Here's Jeff, Liam and Sarah Jurist.
The girls with the Moorhead girls - Anya and Kiera.
Hailey Jackson with the girls. (Ian was sleeping upstairs.)
Paige and Olivia Roden with Luella.
Aden Noyes and Aiden Meness with Luella.
Jessica Thompson, our next-door neighbor with Luella.
Arianna Schriner with the girls.
Eddie and Taylor Craig with the girls.
The Wheeler girls, Rysa and Madelyn with the girls.
All the Minnie Mouses, with Scott Schriner. Ari, Kati, Hailey and Rysa.
Kati had a super happy day!
Kyla realized seconds before Kevin was going to leave that she didn't have a picture of him from the whole weekend! Aunt Becky and Uncle Phil took him to the train station.
Kevin and Kati enjoying family hugs!
The Cake Mommas! Be on the lookout for this dynamic cake decorating duo to open a shop when they live in the same state again! Thanks for all your help Lynn!
We used so much powdered sugar to roll out the fondant that little feet made nice footprints on the hardwoods!
Kyla wanted to get a thank you card made with the girls and Toodles. She's learning to ask the girls for a silly face to get smiling faces later.
Here's their smiling faces!
Kyla had to give Ian one more snuggle before he left to go back to Maryland.
Kati is smiling with her new lip gloss and fingernail polish.
Luella is showing off her new fake nails with princesses on them. They had such a fun birthday party! Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate with us and make the day so special!

(Note to self, next year do a party at the dance studio!)