Legos and Bowling and Boys...

This whole birthday at Christmas thing is a real pain in the arse! This year we has Si's party on January 26th...a full month after his birthday. But it worked out pretty well because it didn't feel like it was still the holidays, all his friends were able to make it and he was already over the excitement of his Christmas gifts.

He asked for a Lego cake...and I, being "frugal" decided to make it instead of paying a cake making professional.


And we made quite the mess making it!!
But the end result wasn't too bad, at least to the 7 year old.


I know now that I could have done a few things differently to make the icing smoother but 1. I'm not a baker and 2. I'm not much into perfection.


Boys will be boys- and stick their faces in the cake. I wasn't so happy.



But they were and all had a good time. And I'm glad I get another year before doing that again!!



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Bowling Birthday Bash

We celebrated Ella's birthday this weekend. She decided this year that she would like to have a bowling party.

1 party girl + 2 brothers +12 girls + 1 boy (Ethan - who loved the idea of being surrounded by so many girls) + 1 Grandpa and 1 Aunt Amanda + lots of parents = we had ourselves a party!

Ella HAD to wear her favorite party skirt...and her favorite shirt (Daddy's Snow Angel). If you've seen pictures of her 4th birthday...this outfit will look very familiar! Loved watching her bowling in her party skirt!

Making the party room festive - getting ready for birthday cake!!

Ella took the blowing out of candles very seriously this year!
I hope she gets her wish (unless it will cost me LOTS of money...)

My girl will be 6 on Tuesday...impossible!!