Birthday "Baking" Party

For Addison's second birthday, I thought a "baking" party would be so much for her and her little friends.  Addie has really been having fun helping me and Kevin out in the kitchen plus we got her a children's baking set for her birthday.

We invited 11 of Addison's friends from our ISE group who are all pretty close to her age (2-4 years old that all happen to be little girls).  I found a cake store that sold cake boxes that I used for the "goodie" box.   When they got to the party, they had a sheet of fairy, princess, and unicorn stickers to decorate it.  Then inside the box they found their very own aprons to where during the party.  I got the idea from the apron that Sally made for Addison for Christmas.  They were super easy and fast to make.  Then they all had a little rolling pin that Kevin helped me make by cutting up a long dowel I bought at B&Q and sanded smooth.

We started out by rolling out sugar cookies.

Me and Addison

Amy with Kameron and Kendall

Lana with Emily

Laurie and Kylie

Emily with Madeline

Look how Addison is putting her cookies on the baking stone...I didn't even have to show her how.

While the cookies baked, we rolled out mini pizzas to eat for lunch.   The girls made their own pizzas and then Lana and Emily made our "mommy" pizzas. Everyone seemed to really enjoyed their creations!!!

Elise

Alana

After lunch we sang Happy Birthday to Addison and enjoyed some ice cream cone cupcakes.  I have always seen this done in magazines and wanted to try it...they looked sooooo cute.  But not as cute as the birthday girl blowing out her candle.

Addie and I enjoying our cupcake ice cream cones.

Next we got out all different colors of frosting and sprinkles to decorate our cookies.  I think the girls more more interested in eating the cookies right away than letting them dry. 

Kylie is so meticulous with her sprinkles.

Holli with Gwen decorating cookies

 

Lastly, Addison got to open her presents.  After opening each gift she was ready to play with it and it was hard to get her to open all the rest of her gifts.  She loved them all so much...her friends are way too kind.

Thank you all who came to celebrate with us.  Addison had so much fun with you all and so did I.  I know my friends here think I am absolutely crazy and they call me Martha Stewart all the time, but honestly I love to do this kind of stuff.  I was telling my mom that it is hard not to have fun with something you are passionate about.  I really think I missed my calling to go into party planning or catering...it is so much fun to think up activities people can enjoy doing together and having great food to go along with it.

Thank you Lana for helping me out by mixing up the pizza dough and thanks Emily for entertaining Addison while I got everything ready to go.