Have Your Cake and Eat It Too...

 Maggie-Doodle turned 10 in October, so we threw a bash for all of the girls in her class.  We decided to do a "cake decorating" party.

To make sure we stayed nice and clean whilst decorating our cakes, we first decorated aprons.  (Yes, I said "whilst.")  Apron decorating also killed a boatload of time; key when you have 7 10-year old girls giggling and carrying on and whatnot.

 I sewed ruffles on canvas aprons and we set up the "Apron Decorating Station" in the dining room.  They decorated while eating a delicious after school snack of meat, cheese and crackers. (Maggie's request - I wholeheartedly approve, I must say.)

The aprons turned out beautifully. And fabric markers dry right away, so we could wear them immediately!  Perfect.

Onto the cake decorating extravaganza.  7 6-inch double layer cakes, frosted white, with three tubes of frosting each - pink, purple and green.  We also gave each girl a cupful of fondant flowers and butterflies to use.  Delightful.  (Didn't think it would be so delightful when we stopped at the bakery to pick them up..."Sorry, we misread your order.  We thought you wanted one 7-inch cake instead of 7 6-inch cakes."  GAH!  Thankfully, they have the little six-inchers baked and on hand, we just had to wait while they frosted them all.  Phew.)

And then the fun began.  They worked really hard and had a great time.  Yes, the volume at times got to be a little much...I would just step out of the room during those times.  Scott's mom was here and helped - mostly with my sanity!

Maggie did a horse on her cake - better than any horse I could have done.  And yes, her hair needs to be cut.  We're trying to grow out the bangs, but it might get to be too much for me before we get very far.  Headbands, here we come.

Beautiful.  Each girl got to take home her cake, her apron, and her frosting tube kit.  (We washed the tips and gave them some clean frosting bags.

After all of the revelry, we opened a few gifts, ate a little pizza, watched a movie and then took them all home.  And then Scott's mom went to bed by 8.  It wiped us all out!  So we ate some cake and called it a night.  Until next year...