Birthday Party Time

Lexy wanted a sleep over party for her birthday.  That's kind of a tough call these days.  So, with some idea help from a friend, (Thank you Mrs. P), we had a late night movie party in PJ's.  We didn't start the party until 6:30pm.  Asked the girls to wear their pajamas and bring a pillow and blanket.  We started off with making candy apples.  Wow..!!! Sticky, but fun.  Pushed a quick game of girl talk Jenga in the middle.  

Then off to gifts.  What a spoiled little princess...

  

 After the gifts the pizza finally made it to the house and the girls all ate their fill of pizza in the back yard on their blankets.  The weather was so nice, just cool enough, no clouds and not too cool.  Once the pizza was gone we switched over to the cake.  Lexy's big pink 'L' cake...

The Payne girls shared their new tradition with Lexy by smashing her face in her slice of cake... How fun, frosting everywhere... 

 Some party favor horn blowing to get the noise out...

 ... and on to watching Mirror Mirror projected on to the wall of the apartment building next to the house.  We had that screen maximized to about 30 foot.  Then hooked up the Bose speaker, kicked back, and enjoyed the show.  Averi's mom hooked us up with a theater style popcorn popper, we had a cooler full of drinks, and a big bowl of individual sized candies.  All to enjoy during the movie.

The evening ended around 9:45pm with a PJ dance party as the credits ran... "I believe, I believe, I believe...!!!"

I hope it was a birthday to remember Lexy.  I sure Love YOU...!!!!

Lexy's 9th Birthday Cake

It's birthday time at our house.  Lexy has been counting down to her birthday.  I hope that we made it memorable for her.  Here is the cake story for her. If you follow this blog very long you see that we go ALL OUT with the cakes for birthdays.

This year Lexy wanted an 'L' for her cake.  I couldn't let it be that simple.  We had to go big, so I broke out the quarter sheets, filled them with cake batter and off we went.  Here's the rough cut cake stacked up.

 Frosted pink, of course...!!!

How's that for a cake cross section....??

 We took Butch a big piece.  He asked if the cake was really that tall...  Ha... YEP...!!!

Cup Cakes

Lexy frosted cupcakes at Activity Days this week.  She love it.  The whole room was a buzz when I peeked in to check on her. 

 

Yum...

Cake for Fun

The other night Isaac wanted to make a cake.  He got the batter all mixed up and ready and then decided that he wanted to make an iPod cake.  So, black frosting with white lining it was.

Look he even has the apps.

Good job buddy...!!

Isaac's Birthday Party

Isaac's Birthday Party at the ice rink turned out great...!!!  We had a great turn out, he got great presents, we all had a great time.  They skated, played the Kinects, ate cake, and just had fun.  Just after this picture the boys started chanting "Cut the Cake!  Cut the Cake!" because Isaac told them he didn't want to eat the cake because he liked it so much.

This is most, but not all, of the boys that came to Isaac's party.  Everyone he invited from his hockey team came, most of the kids from his school that he invited came.  I was really happy at the turn out. 

(Go Parker!)

One last picture with the cake before it was cut into pieces and washed down with ice cream and Cranberry Canada Dry. 

He was on Cloud 9.  After the party he and I took JoJo to dinner and JoJo got to sleep over.  What a fantastic day for Isaac.

Thank You Butch for taking care of us...!!!

Isaac's birthday cake...

It's no secret that Isaac is a HUGE Dragon Ball Z fan.  He love the trivia, the show, the books, the costumes, the action figures, the tee shirts, etc.  Anything with Dragon Ball Z.  I figured it was coming, "Isaac what do you want your birthday cake to be this year?" 

"Goku...  Super Saiyan 3... No Super Saiyan 5..." 

"Get a picture and I'll see what I can do."  I said.

So he found one.

And I went to work.

I think we did OK...  It was about 1:30am when I got it done.

  He said the hair was 3D and everything.  I stacked the scraps from cutting out the shapes it different sizes and shapes of wedges for the 3D hair look.  He is pretty excited...!!

Lexy's 8th Birthday Party

Oh boy did we ever have a Birthday Party...!!!

I picked up the kids right after school so that we could finish getting ready for Lexy's Birthday Party on Friday afternoon. I was a little bit worried about the early start time, 3:30pm on a Friday. But we had a great turn out. I grabbed some pink, sparkle, spray-in hair dye for Lexy. She LOVED it...!! My, my it is soooo PINK...!!! I posted a version of this cake that we had on her birthday. But this is the one that we had at the party. Nice and small, it was all gone by the end of the party. Huh, Helper C...???

Look at all the people that came to Lexy's party. There were two more that showed up late. Being such an early time of day and the 'off season', there were only 2 or 3 other skaters one the ice the whole time. So, we kept control of the music and such. Fun time for the kids.

Here is a little cake time, just before they all sang to her. Look and that cake a blaze... We played two games in addition to skating. Pin the Stuff on Lexy and a version of hot potato with a Stink-eez. The Pin the Stuff on Lexy was fun. We had skates, hair bows, a crown, ear rings, a necklace. It was pretty fun, and she just happened to pick the skating dress to wear to the party that was the same as the poster I had printed for the game.
After the party we went to a pho-Mexican place for dinner. It was pretty much a goodbye to the Barker's dinner with the Payne's. The kids all had so much fun. I'm pretty sure the adults enjoyed the visit as well. I know that I did. Still kind of sad that the Barker's bailed on us. They had all lined up the restaurant up to sing Happy Birthday in Lexy in Mexican. They brought out this giant sombrero and two fried ice creams. At the end of the song one of the guys picked up the treat and held it in front of Lexy, she thought it was to try the treat... Nope, they pushed in in her face... Hahaha...!!! Just a little, it was so fun, she loved it. She talked and talked about how fun that was. Turned out to be a fantastic evening. Thank you so much for all the help, Helper C, Butch, Zoey, Jess, Andrew, Cam, Jen, and all the others that helped me pull this off. Thanks to all the parents that brought your kids. You all helped me make a WONDERFUL memory for my little Princess.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEXY...!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEXY..!!!

I don't know how to get that any bigger, bolder, or pinker...

This picture is right after brushing her teeth, ready for school.She is wearing the bows that Aunt Lyn made her for her birthday. The ribbon actually says, "Happy Birthday". Super fun.Last night she got a package from grandma with this hat inside (and lots of other stuff). She loves this hat, she can't wait to wear it to school and the ice rink.I started making her birthday cake, take one. I am making this one for today, just me and the kids. Then we will make another one later in the week to take to her party. I still have some work to do on this one. Laces, her name, touch ups, etc. I got the main base together and called in a night. Yep, those are rice crispy treat blades, with silver food coloring spray paint. It looks cool, but it tastes NASTY.I can't hardly wait to post pictures of presents and her party.

Happy Birthday Princess...!!!

Cake Party at the Payne's

Lexy went to the Payne's house on Friday night for a Birthday Cake party. It was C's birthday a few weeks ago, so they had a cake decorating party. How fun, home make everything, even the fondant was from scratch. Awesome job Ceri...!!! These photos were passed on to me.

Ready to go.There is some sweet decorating action. As promised, here are some pictures of the cake that Lexy decorated. Mmmm was it good too...!!Lexy Jo and her cake.

HB 2 Me

If you know me much you know that I don't like any fussing about my birthday. Well I kept things pretty low on the radar. There were some leaks on FaceBook, but I them shut down in time, but not before some of my family (church family) here in West Virginia got a hold of it. So before I knew it we were headed to the Payne's house to play games after dinner. The kids and I had made a cake, so we took it to share. Our cake got TOTALLY shown up by this cake...!!! But they do look great together.That fancy cake was made by our good friend SF. I am trying to keep it on the down low. She can let you know if'n she wants. But with such a fantastic cake I better be careful before I volunteer her to make more. I am pretty sure that she whipped that cake up same day. I don't think that she knew about the birthday or a party until mid-morning that day of. WOW. Thank you sooo much.

In keeping on the down low. I want to make sure that I thank the families that threw this little party. The P Family, the F Family, the B Family, and special guest January Carol. ;) Hope you like that one KB.

I have one action shot to share, these two have so much fun together. Just as a warning, I might steal this kid and her siblings. They are such great kids...!!!To wear it out, Thank You, all of you that put this together. I have really enjoyed the Diet Mt Dew and the mints. The party and games were a blast. It goes to show that you all know me. It is so nice to feel loved.

Isaac's Birthday

IT'S ISAAC'S 10TH BIRTHDAY...!!! He chose bowling as his party, so we locked in a party room at Galaxy Lanes in Kanawha City. It turned out pretty good. We had six boys come to the party. From left to right, Jonathan (in Isaac's class), JoJo (3rd base friend), Joel (3rd base friend), Braden (on Isaac's hockey team), the birthday boy, David (from our neighbourhood), Lexy Jo, and Andrew (from Isaac's class).
Of course he had a bunch of presents at home too, PVC pipe for making marshmallow guns, flame print duct tape, new DC Shoes, a snow skate, and Lexy gave his Sorry Spinners. He loved all the presents.Isaac wanted a hockey puck for a birthday cake. Of course Amy and I put it together. We didn't want to use black food coloring because it make the frosting taste bad and gets all over the kids. So, we used crushed Oreo cookies mashed into the frosting to get a black look. We figured that just a black cake would be weird, so we put Isaac's hockey team logo on the top of that cake.
Here is a picture of the cake with Isaac jersey that we used for the image.

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As a side note. This is our 300th post. I hope that you all enjoy them.