Finally ..........It's OVER

Yesterday, had to be the most hottest, tiring, and funnest ( is "funnest" a word? hmmm...) day ever. We had our kids 3 & 4th birthday party (WHOOOO!!!) over at our wonderful friend's place, where we set up a huge jumper and water slide jumper thing that all of the kids friends and some adults ( including my hubby) enjoyed, slipping and sliding all the way down to a big cooled pool water and not to leave the little ones out, we had a little waiting pool, and for the big kids at heart, our friend opened up their own pool for our guest to use ( awwwww...). Any who, prior to the party. I, Merry Jones, was busy planning and getting everything ready at 7pm, Friday night. There was paper cuts, and streamers, and oven on at 350 degrees baking away cakes, and cupcakes ( making our apartment into one huge Sauna, it was literally 91 degrees inside our place. I was not a happy baker >:( ) powdered sugar, flour dust everywhere, cake crumbs, and food dye all over my hands and floor.....oh my goodness it was just one big mess in my kitchen. Around 2 am, I started making Bridgette's Cinderella's Cake:

Totally forgot to take a back and front photo of the cake but thanks to my hubby's phone, he manage to take a quick picture ( so those who took back and front photo of the cakes please email me them...thank you so much)

and at 5 am, I started Skylar's Car's Cake:

As you can tell, I was pretty beat and totally didn't finish Lightening McQueen. But if you squint your eyes a little and pretend that Lightening McQueen is changing his tires... then hey there's Lightening McQueen!!

And by 7 am, I started doing four different type of cupcakes, we had butterfinger (forgot the crushed buttefinger at home), snickers, almond joy (forgot the almond and the chocolate gnache)and pina colada ( forgot the cherries) and by 9:30 the hubby called and said " Hun, I don't know where to put all the decoration, I don't know where you want me to put things could you come here and do this?! At this time I wish there was two of me...and that's why there were so many things forgotten. Super Woman had everything all set up: the cake and cupcakes were chilling upstairs so they won't melt before the guest arrive. We had hamburgers, hot dogs, cotton candy, chips and dip, veggies and fruit, salad (that my wonderful sis-in-law made...it was delish!! thanks Krista) and cold beverages that was just perfect on a hot day(thanks to my lovely mother-in-law Kathy, who by the way got splashed by my hubby coming down the water slide) and thanks to my awesome friends ( Michelle and Liane) who helped me frost all those cupcakes...because honestly if you seen me there, I was running around with my head cut off trying to make sure everything was running smoothly... Which I heard the party was the talk of the town... :) <-- BIG SMILES... Soon after everyone had left, I, yes I went down the water slide and it felt in the words of Tony the Tiger, " Its GREEEAATT!!!". I'm so glad that our kids and everyone had a great time. SO all my hard work and efforts and a few help from the wonderful people in life, had help me pull this party off perfectly to end the summer.(CRRRAPPPP!!!!...totally forgot to take pictures at the party) smh...

In Over My Head

Yikes, what have I gotten myself into? This Saturday, is our kids birthday party and we rented a water-slide jumper combo and have invited over 80 people (This includes the kids' parents and the rest of siblings that belongs to Skylar and Bridgette's Class). So we're thinking of how much food to buy and what games to do that entertain little kids along with the bigger kids (meaning the parents ;)) What's wrong with that you ask? Well both of my kids want their own cake. Skylar wants a Disney's Pixar Cars Cake and of course it can't be a "yucky cake" as Skylar specifically told me. And Miss Bridgette's wants her Disney's Princess's cake or "oh have mercy!" will she have a fit. (which all will have to be done Friday night, otherwise the fondant and the cake inside would not taste as good) AND.....on Friday night, I have to do 100 cupcakes, make sandwiches (for the kids that don't like hot dogs or hamburgers) and make dips for all the chips and veggies. On top of all this we're moving into a new place the 1st of the month and I have two cake orders to do the first week of September. I don't know if that's enough time to unpack all my stuff and get my baking on? So again I think I'm in over my head. But like always, I have to put on my cape (I'm wearing the Super Woman outfit under my clothes)and make it all happened.

Let the Journey Begin

I was fascinated with all my friends and family's blogging about what happened in their everyday lives. So I wanted to join in on the fun. (talk about peer pressure lol). Now, I see why they blog. It's a great way to vent or to look back to the good ol' days. I'll try to be more frequent with my posting, since I've finally figured out how to use this darn thing.