(yes that is Trevor giving bunny ears to his cake...must be an 8 year old boy thing)We left to go to Utah on Trevor's birthday. It was only a half day at school because of Thanksgiving break and I knew that Bryan would be working until around six so I decided that Trevor could have a birthday party right after school.
After much deliberation he decided to have a Mario Party Party. Which meant that he wanted to play Mario Party on the Wii with his friends, which meant that he could only invite 3 friends. It was a hard choice to make because he knew his other option was to invite his entire school class plus friends from church and get MEGA amounts of presents, but I was SO relieved that it would just be a few boys coming over to pay Nintendo.
As the boys played upstairs I decided to come down and frost the cake. For those that have never seen the way I make the cake toppers for my kids cakes here is how I do it. The day before the birthday I print off a picture, put wax paper over it, and trace/color the picture with frosting. Then I put that in the freezer over night so that it will peel off the wax paper and go onto the cake. Some years it works great, others, not so great. I pretty much have the process down and can make it work. This year I had done all the steps and the topper was frozen and ready to apply on the cake, but low and behold....when I came down to frost the cake, I see that one of the kids (I later found out it was Trevor) had decided to help my by taking out the topper from the freezer and setting it on the counter. AHHH! This is terrible!! Frosting takes overnight to freeze hard, but only 30 seconds to 1 minute to thaw out completely. I quickly threw it back in the freezer and wondered what I would do. Having no other options, once I finished frosting the cake I took out the topper and scrapped it off with a knife. It actually worked ok, but the picture was a bit smeared. Oh well.
We also did a pinata, but seeing as I was the only adult and had no hooks on the ceiling to hang it from I decided to just throw the pinata at the boys and let them beat it up. This actually went over really well...go figure...8 year old boys like to karate chop stuff. They each took turns kicking, or "chopping" the pinata until all the candy came out. Overall it went great and Trevor had an awesome 8th birthday.(yes that is Trevor giving bunny ears to his friend..and his friend giving them back....must be an 8 year old boy thing)
8 comments:
Aw, I'm so sad we couldn't come. :-(
And, I'll be honest, I was hoping for a video of the karate chopping action.
I'm with Andrea, the karate chopping sounds awesome. I must say that I really like the bunny ears on the cake too, pretty funny stuff. Happy Birthday Trevor.
At least Trevor did it to his own cake!! That sounds like an awesome party. Especially the only 3 kids part.
Happy Birthday Trevor!!!!!!
Andrea, I thought you were going to say you were hoping to GET IN ON the karate chop action. I enjoyed picturing that.
What a fun party. That frosting idea is awesome, I am definitely going to try that! It sounds like you could have used our pinata stick. Yes, we have a special tool that Bill whipped up for Macy's party a few years ago, basically a thick wooden dowel with a hook screwed into the end. Then you just stand on a chair and hold the pinata out. Just FYI, for your next pinata.
What an awesome way to decorate a cake, I have never heard about it before.
Cameron had so much fun at Trevor's party! I'll have to try that frosting trick, too. Glad it still worked out! I'm so glad Cameron and Trevor are still good buddies even though they're not in the same class anymore.
I bet Trevor was glad it was his Birthday because on a normal day I am sure he would have gotten a woopin' for takin' that topper out. It still looked great! I can't believe how big Trevor is! I remember chasing him around your house when he was Maddie's age!
Happy Birthday Trevor.
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