Welcome to the winter wonderland!

Saturday was Connor's Winter Wonderland party.

8 children, 9 adults. 

The weather cooperated as it was sunny and clear through the first part of the party, and only then did it get a bit cloudy.

Staked balloons in the yard.  Kids loved this, but 30 minutes in, and at least of the third of the balloons were gone.  The 2 year old from next door had a lot of fun pulling them out and letting them go, until Connor got upset.

 

Mostly white (ok, off-white) food.  Cheddar corn puffs, peeled apple slices, yogurt covered pretzels, white fudge covered oreos, vanilla meringues, Monterrey jack cheese and crackers, kettle corn and white chocolate Bliss candies.  I did have Bacon/crackers for the adults.   

Connor and his cake.  The goody bags were pretty cool too.  They each had an arctic friend stuffed animal (polar bear, penguin or otter), a arctic friend ball, a peppermint tootsie pop, and four finger lights.  If you have not seen those lights yet, check them out.  The kids loved them. 
Amazon finger lights

Pin the hat on the Polar Bear.  I had 2 heats - one for 5-6 year olds, one for 3 and under.  Each kid won a prize, but the winners got to pick first. 

Favorites were the pooping polar bear and the grow your own polar bear.



 

 

Final images of the cake - note the shadows of the fish in the water.  Ha Ha.  I loved this cake and it was super fun to make.

 

Connor had fun at his party, and now Kaitlyn wants a winter wonderland themed party as well. 

Polar Bear Party

I am choosing to ignore the fact I haven't posted for 5 whole months, and am just movin' on.

Connor's birthday is coming up, and since it is during the holiday, we are embracing the season and having a Polar Bear (Arctic friend) Party.

I started working on the cake, and I think it is coming out cute despite my husbands pointing out the non-snowy whiteness of the bears.

I think they are cute!  They are made from tootsie rolls.  Dollar tree had big vanilla ones.  They aren't as white as the vanilla midgees, but I think they are fine.  The little one got fatter and more "slumpier" as he cooled, but oh well.

Their igloo.  Hope it holds together when I transfer it to the cake.

Now, I just nee to create the jello pond, and then put it all together.

We will be playing a toss the snowball game, pin the hat on the polar bear, and maybe one more game, but I might just let them play.

Menu is all white - kettle popcorn, Monterey jack cheese bites, vanilla meringues, white chocolate covered oreos, apple slices, crackers and yogurt covered pretzels.  I might do pizza since we will need to eat before we head out to the boat parade, but we'll see.

8 maybe 9 kids are coming.  Can't wait.

Gingerbread

Just a quick post here.

We decorated Gingerbread houses with/for the kids.  This went slightly better than the pumpkin carving where Monica and I did 90% of the work.  Here they did about 40%, but mostly they ate the candy.