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About Leah's Birthday party!

Let the party...begin!

1. Balloons...cheap, easy, and fun! The kids had a blast just running around and playing with balloons. Gotta love a party where the kids entertain themselves!

2. Kids fix'n up their own individual pizzas. Also, the dough I made for the pizza crust turned out AMAZING! The crust was soft, chewy, and oh so prefect! All I had to do was make the dough and pizza sauce. So, the kids did most of the work. Gotta love tricking the kids into helping without them realizing it.

3. This is my favorite moment of the party...Leah blowing out her birthday candles. Gotta blow my own horn...Cake turned out AWESOME! Leah looks so cute in her birthday hat!

4. Homemade French Vanilla served with birthday cake. This is the funny part...All of sudden. It become super quite in the kitchen. I looked over at the kids. No one was talking. All of the kids where to busy eating the ice cream. You know its good when everyone is eating.

5. Leah's all boy party...Well, this explains a lot why she acts like a tom boy.

6. Opening presents...Leah received a baby doll that pees, busy bee tea set, and stuffed teddy bear. I can't wait for xmas. Leah's expressions were priceless.

7. My best friend decided to get Leah this doll that goes potty. She thought it would make a prefect gift to go with all the homemade diapers that I made for her other baby dolls. Well, this is the best part of the night. Landon was holding this doll..just like in the picture. See how the baby bottom is pointed. Well, Leah decided to give it a bottle at the same time. Landon accidental squeezed on the doll and it peed all over him like a real baby would. The funny part about it..is he didn't even realize it.

9. It wouldn't be a party without blowers!

10. We ended the night with a balloon popping contest. The little ones had the hardest time popping the balloons. JoJo couldn't do it. The little guy only weighs 20 pounds. He kept on trying to jump down on the balloon to pop it but it never happened.

11. The best part of the evening...Spending time with friends and neighbors celebrating my daughters 3rd birthday.

Friday, December 4, 2009

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Ta-dah! The materpiece is done!

Leah decided to pratice singing happy birthday song and pratice blowing out her candles. She can't wait!

This is Leah singing "happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me!" over and over again. I hope she can always be this cute on her birthday!

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Because I can...

Problem Solved!

I found the strangest solution to my cake problem. I used an Old Spaghetti Factory glass to hold up the top of the carousel. I just frosted the glass and pressed it into the cake base. Problem solved.

You should of seen the look on Leroy's face when he say the cake...He was like "you made this"! Super cute...It wasn't hard to make either! No walmart cake for my daughter!

Carousel Cake

Tomorrow is the big day...Leah will be turning 3 years old. I decided this year to make her a carousel cake for her birthday. Leah and Logan both helped with the project. I don't mind having the kids help becuase I'm not a prefectionist. Leah did a great job cracking the eggs open and mixing up the cake batter. She's getting really good with her fine motor skills. She's so funny. Look at her face as she's trying to frost the cake.

Sorry, about this ulgy picture of me...Leah decided to take pictures of us frosting the cake together. Logan loves to get his hands dirty...Mr. I'm a hands on kind of boy.

Making the cake turned out to be a very easy process. I just used two circle rounds, cut off the bumps on each cake. I turned them over and frosted them together. I decorated the cake with pink and blue frosting. I also decorated a tin pie pan for the top part of the carousel. I had some left over frosting so I wrote on the cake " Happy Birthday "3" Leah".

As you can tell..I have a slight problem. The straws are not able to hold up the pie pan. Any suggestions on how to correct the problem. I still need to put on the animal cracks on the poles.

Also, I picked up those little boxes of animal crackers for the quest to take home as party favors. I can't wait to celebrate my daughters birthday. Logan claims he wants a carousel cake for his birthday next year. Silly boy...He wants his in all boy colors...lol!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Xmas Stocking

I finally finished my lastest xmas project. I decided to make my own xmas stocking. My grandmother made me a stocking a long time ago. Now, this stocking isn't even as nice as my own stocking but I'm just learning how to knit. I decided to go ahead and use my knitting loom to make this stocking. I found this guy on youtube that gives step by step instructions on how to make the xmas stocking.

Here's the video! I love this guy. A great teacher...I can't say enough about him.

I'm planning on making everyone in the family their own stocking. Logan wanted his name knitted in the top part of the stocking but I'm not at that level yet.