Last week was Carter's 7 1/2th birthday and once again I talked him into waiting until his half birthday to have his party so I didn't have to throw a birthday party the week of Christmas. As usually happens, the week of his half birthday seemed as busy, if not busier, than the week of Christmas and I was wishing I had just had it on his real Birthday, but since I didn't I geared up for a party. We decided to do a baseball themed party. I decided to be all crafty and make his pinata and cake myself. So Sunday night we started the pinata process. All was going well up until Tuesday night, it was time to do the last layer on the pinata and I had the brilliant idea that if we popped the balloon now and filled it then the last layer would close up the hole that we had used to fill (rather than waiting until it was all done and having to tape closed the hole). So I popped the balloon made a hole and filled it. At this point it was nice and round and very hard so I thought all was going well. Until. . . . As I put the last layer of paper on it the glue soaked through all of the layers and the shape went from nice and round to flat with holes tearing everywhere I tried to fix it. It was a disaster. As I did this the cakes were in the oven. My sisters had agreed to help with the cake and all I had to do was make the cupcakes and the larger baseball cakes. Apparently I filled the bowl for the baseball too full and the cake spilled all over the oven, burning and filling the house with smoke. All of this happened around midnight the night before the party. Luckily the morning of the party my wonderful sisters, Marilyn and Noelle, came to the rescue and saved the cake (which turned out to be the only thing that really worked out).
The day of the party came and it was a nice sunny day, that is until about a half hour before the party was supposed to start at which point it started raining and the wind started to blow. I decided to go ahead and still have the party at the park as planned because I had no plan B. We went to the park, played a game of baseball in the rain. Broke the weirdly shaped baseball pinata (while at the party the handle broke off of the pinata so we had to pitch it like a huge baseball and have them hit it with the bat- it worked out alright). We sang to carter and ate Cake and Ice Cream and ended the party after only an hour due to the kids all freezing and hovering under the pavillion. As we left I asked Carter if he'd had a good birthday party even though it rained, he said "It wasn't the best." Next year I will definitely be buying a pinata and cake, I learned my lesson- anytime I read online that something is a "simple at home project" they mean for everyone else
My pinata
My cakes
The finished product- so cute.
Carter blowing out the candles on the cake- oh wait his mom forgot to bring the candles- oops.
I forgot to take a picture of all the kids at the party, in fact I only took a couple pictures at all but thanks to all of you that came and/or helped (especially Noelle and Marilyn). Carterbug- I promise next year we'll have a better party, I've learned my lesson and will not try to do things myself, happy 7 1/2th bud, love you.
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