We celebrated Ella's birthday a little bit early. She had a few of her close friends out for an evening of pottery painting at Potter's Haven in downtown Lee's Summit. We had such a great time. We will be going back, Soon!
After the pottery we came home for pizza and cupcakes and then an overnight. The whole thing went off without a hitch. Now on to planning our big family birthday party.
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In case you can't figure it out, that's her in the front putting on the interpretive dance moves.
J.R. ran in the Hospital Hill Marathon. I was able to go down and cheer their team on. It was a gorgeous, slightly overcast, cool day in K.C. so it was perfect for their run. I was so proud of him.
Hold on to your chairs because there are lots of posts coming your way. We will start with the results of our cupcakes. We had a lot of fun making these and the girls are the perfect ages to sit for the long periods of time it took to "build" each of them. I was proud of how their cupcakes turned out.
Here we are making the cupcakes:
And decorating:
And the final product!
We are attempting to make cute little cupcakes from the book Hello, Cupcake, today for Ella's little birthday get together with a few of her closest friends tomorrow. We are trying to simplify the craziness of the girls all having their birthdays in less than 8 weeks.
We will do one big family birthday with grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles, and then they can have a simpler, smaller celebration with just a few of their friends.
She has chosen to go paint pottery at Potter's Haven. I am excited about this, as I myself have been itching to go there. In fact I am planning our next girls night out there(if you are interested).
I posted the above picture which is a professional photo, straight from the cupcake book to show you what said cupcakes are intended to look like. Ours, I am quite sure, will be different!
