Little A is now 5! I can't believe it. We celebrated in Montana this year. It seems like we are always traveling around her birthday. But its also fun to be able to have the extended family around to celebrate with us. This year I had planned a party at Pump It Up in Bakersfield but since we had to make an unexpected trip to Montana it didn't pan out to be there. So we decided to celebrate on July 4th.
Little D was so funny about it. He was more excited about it than Little A was I think. He came into the bedroom and told his dad that this was an exciting day because 3 exciting things were happening. There was church, A birthday party, and FIREWORKS! I thought that was cute. I loved that included church in there. So we invited Big J's Mom, Sister and Grandparents. We had a BBQ planned and then we had Cupcakes and Ice cream and presents. She was pretty excited about all her gifts and has played with all of them a lot. Here are the cupcakes that I made for the party. Keep in mind that we planned this party on Saturday and so there wasn't a ton of time to come up with too much.
First we made the cupcakes and baked them and then let them cool. Next we started on the flowers. Now this was the trickier part. I needed colored sugar but didn't have any. So my mom said we could make some. I didn't know that you could do this I just figured that if you put the food coloring into the sugar it would dissolve the sugar. But no. We had raw sugar and put a couple drops of food coloring into the bowl and mixed until it was all colored.
To make the flowers all we had to do was take mini marshmallows and cut them in half on the diagonal. After you do this it makes a petal shape. When we cut them in half we just let them fall into the sugar. Once in the sugar we mixed them around until we were sure that the sticky side of the marshmallow was covered in the sugar.
To get the flowers to stick together we took white chocolate chips and put then into a zip lock bag and melted them. Then we snipped the tip so we could squeeze a little bit out at a time. We did 3 at a time so that we would be able to assemble them before the chocolate cooled too much. So we made a circle of chocolate on the wax paper and then placed 5 petals in the chocolate. Then we took one green one and added it as a leaf.
Once they cool you just frost your cupcakes and pick off a flower and place it on top.
Here they are aren't they pretty.
I was way more excited and thought that they were way cuter than anyone else.
After the party we lit a bon fire and roasted marshmallows and waited for dark. After it was dark enough we lit a few fireworks and then just sat back and watched the rest of the valley light theirs. My parents have the best view of the valley. You could see fireworks all over. But the best show was down the street from my parents. It was awesome to get to see them so close but to not have to spend the money on them.
Little A actually had about 3 parties/celebrations. One on the 4th and then after we had done the placing of ashes for Rob we went to Aunt Sue's house and had a BBQ there. This was on Wednesday, and she had gotten a cake that said Happy Birthday Audrey on it. This was her actual birthday. The 7th. So we sang and had cake and ice cream. Then later that night we went to Rob's other sisters house and she had made birthday brownies and so we sang again and had brownies and ice cream. So much ice cream and treats that day!
I think that between them all she had a great 5th birthday. Not to mention that when we got home she had 3 presents from friends. So nice, Thanks everyone.
In Montana they had a 4th of July parade on the 3rd since the 4th fell on a Sunday. We took the kids and they had fun collecting all the candy that was thrown at us. And seeing all the horses and other animals.
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