Cut the cake, already!

It really wanted to make a pizza cake for the party, but I had no idea how to make it look sort of real.  I sketched a few things and then went to Pinterest to help me.  Here is the finished product… a real looking pizza cake! I just used 2 colors of buttercream frosting – brown all over and then brown/red for the sauce, white chocolate for the cheese (melted and drizzled onto the top), fruit roll ups for the pepperoni, black M&Ms for the olives, and Mike & Ikes for the green peppers! I am SO PLEASED how it turned out!!

The girls loved how we all sang to them!  I had 4 candles on the cake for Hannah and 6 for Grace!  (And btw, everyone loved the cake… it was a BIG HIT!!! They all loved how there was chocolate AND vanilla cake.)

Grace had to explain what each of the toppings were made out of… she was as proud of it as I was!

Me and my ALMOST four year old… her birthday is this Friday!

Anne and her momma!

Traverse even made an appearance to help clean up the floor! This may be the last time we really get to play with him before he gets his new owner that he has been training for! 

 

Overall it was a great party and lots of fun with great memories!  Our whole family was exhausted at the end…..I guess I did my job then!  I am glad for a break in party planning… I don’t have another party until May (for my BABY!!!!)

Let the cooking begin… so the eating can begin!

After a little tutorial on how to make pizzas, I let the little ones loose to climb the steps to go to the kitchen.  There we had the dough, flour, rolling pins and the toppings ready to create a masterpiece!

The girls had a BLAST making their pizzas and the parents/adults were a HUGE help in the process!

Me and my TOP CHEFS!

This is Grace’s pizza… sauce, cheese, olives, onions, and pineapple!  It was a HEAVY pizza with so many toppings!  She didn’t save many olives for the adults, but I didn’t care.  SHE was the birthday girl, right? And this is how she wanted it!

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This is Hannah’s pizza with a little bit of everything – sauce, cheese, olives, ham, pineapple, mushrooms, peppers, onions!  It was full and heavy!

Megan and I had the task of transferring the pizzas to the pans so they could cook.

Chef Lightner helped too!

Meanwhile, our Iowa grandmother (Miss Sherri) watched Caleb and kept him happy and out of the way!  She HATED this job!  :)

After the kids’ pizzas were cooking, the adults got to work!

Danny prayed for lunch and dedicated the girls’ 4th and 6th years to the Lord! What an honor to have a daddy who loves Jesus and wants his whole family to love and serve Jesus with him!

Eating their lunch…. such great chefs!  Little Anne ate the most!!

Now it’s time for CAKE…..