Sawyer's SIX. SIX!!!

LEGO PARTY!

Lego cakes using frosted marsmallows (it's really hard to make frosting stick to a marshmallow, fyi). :)  I had a third one that was going to be yellow, but I ran out of frosting even after making three batches... oh well (Sawyer never knew)!

First game:  Lego collaboration.  Go around the circle, rolling a die & then selecting that many legos out of a bag.  Add them to the platform & move on to the next person.  They all LOVED this.  Since there was no way to have a winner, I just gave them all a party favor once they were done (just when they started looking slightly bored with it).  They named their structure "Creative Island".

A few more non-pictured Lego games, then onto our pull-string lego pinata that I made!  Thank goodness everyone got a turn before the correct string was pulled (I have bad luck with people breaking pinatas after the first hit, when i'm the one who organized it)!

Party food time!  Cheese dots & rectangular crackers to build a lego-look-alike snack, red & blue marshmallow popcorn balls, juice boxes wrapped with paper to look like legos, and CAKE & ice cream!

I think one of my favorite parts was the yellow square plates with lego guy faces drawn on with a sharpie. :)  I had enough to use some as decorations around the house as well.

Presents!

Thanks, friends!

Thanks Grandma!

Thanks Mike & Jenny!

Thanks, other Grandma!  :)

Hunter Turns 3!

Hunter had a great Curious George birthday!  We made these super cute monkey cupcakes (super easy- 'Nilla Wafers and black writing gel).

We had a bunch of his toddler friends over on the morning of his birthday for a cute little party.  Turns out an hour and a half is PLENTY when you have this many 2 & 3 year olds together...  haha :)

It was warm enough for them all to play out back together, too!  Hooray for January in Georgia!  Later that evening, we had cake and opened presents with family.  Thank you to aunts & uncles and grandparents who sent him gifts! :)

January Fun & Joe's Birthday!

Sawyer and Hunter wanted to go camping, so we set up the tent in the back yard!  They used it as their play room for three days (it was awesome)!  Even had a boy from a few doors down come join them in the mornings.  It was super cool watching them haul their toys and blankets out there.

We visited our buddies at the aquarium again (we love that place & don't get sick of it)!  Say hello to the sea turtle & one of the lion fish!

Hunter had his BFF, T, over to play.  I made them some cloud dough & they loved it!   Cloud dough:  6 cups flour, 1 cup baby oil.  Didn't know what to expect since I found it online, but others say it's very similar to Moon Sand- gets a super fine sandy texture, but holds it's shape when you press it together (so you can build castles, smush it into cookie cutters, etc.).  Hunter played with this stuff for several hours, several days in a row, before I finally cleaned it all up (and sucked the mess out of the carpet for a long, long time)!

Joe's birthday!!!  Joe's birthday was Sunday January 29th.  He requested a four layer cake.  I repeat:  FOUR ACTUAL LAYERS.  Four separate, full, 9x13 cakes, stacked up.  The corners were tricky to frost, but I did it! 

Happy birthday to Joe!  Four separate cakes, 3 flavors of chocolate frosting (buttercream, milk chocolate, chocolate fudge).  It was a beautiful monster!  We had two families over to sing happy birthday & share the monster cake with us.  It was a good night! :)