Pre-Party Preparations

Yes, I know that it's been almost two weeks since Aiden's birthday party.

This blog is just about the preparations before the party. The first picture is Aiden playing with the card from his great-grandmother. He liked to play with the card because it was one of those swinging cards. You stand it up and it has a portion that will swing when you touch it. The second photo is of the table and its decorations. We did a sundae bar to go with his cake. I put the toppings in little baby food jars. The next picture is a close-up of the cake I made for him to mess-up, I mean eat. I was going to make the frosting from scratch. When I sent Olen to the grocery store for a chocolate cake mix, he brought back chocolate frosting ("just in case"). I was actually grateful because my first attempt at frosting tasted bad and was rather soupy. Somehow, soupy frosting didn't seem right! I asked my mom and she kinda looked funny at it and suggested that the store-bought would be a good alternative. :-( I needed to do some frosting to do the writing though. She told me to look in the cookbook that she used all my life. She was right. That recipe worked like a charm. I even got to use the cake decorating kit that my grandma had given me. I thought that considering it was my first decorating attempt that it turned out pretty good. I promise to practice before his next birthday!! The last picture shows part of the circus effect that I put up. I stole the idea from a baby shower (Thanks, Ali!). They used pastel pink and greens for theirs. It looked so cute. The baby shower one was cuter, but I liked the way mine turned out too. I was actually able to mingle with my guest more than most parties since most of it was self-serve. That was a pretty great feeling. That's it for the preparations.