Happy 5th Birthday, Princess!

We celebrated Grace's 5th birthday on October 3rd. We woke up to a gloomy, rainy day, so I was really concerned about what I was going to do if I had to have 35 people in my house. It did clear up long enough to dry out the bouncy house and allow the kids to jump awhile before it got rather cool and wet again. We all had a good time and the kids (all 17 of them!) ran around the house and had a great time playing with each other.

As is becoming a tradition in our home, I made the cakes for Grace's birthday. Grace had said after her last birthday that she wanted an Aurora birthday this year. So, as requested, she had another Princess themed birthday party, and I made her an Aurora cake, and a castle cake (I was afraid one cake just wouldn't feed 30+ people). The castle didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but I did have fun making them.

It was the first time I used fondant, so I was a little nervous about how they'd turn out, but I did find that it's a fun material to work with. I did learn though that the cakes needed to be heavily coated with butter cream prior to putting the fondant on because it is not the best tasting stuff!

Supper time!

And on to everyone's favorite part of a party...

Can't go wrong with Princess stuff!

The one request that Grace had is that she wanted to have a Belle dress up dress. So I put a call into Grandma since she had already made her a beautiful Aurora dress.

She made it complete with dinner gloves.

Needless to say, I think that was Grace's favorite gift.

We need to work on the candle blowing out...

All in all it was a great party - and all the kids were happy, so all was good!