Evie's birthday party

Wow, what a weekend. This is a pretty long post so get comfy. Also, if you have been reading up, you know that we are waiting for Aunt Becky's baby to be born. As of this post, no baby yet. But, since Aunt Becky can't be comfortable in the car for more than 3 blocks, the Turners couldn't come visit. So here is Evie's birthday party in detail. We started out the day at the Children's Museum. Evie and Natalie rode the Merry-Go-Round first thing.
Then, they took a lap around the track in the race car. Watch out Danica Patrick. Good think Sam Hornish is NASCAR now because I don't know if North West Ohio could handle 2 Indy Car racing heros.
Do these girls look tired? We sent them to the museum during Annalise's and Oliver's naptime so they could have some fun (and the house would be quiet). Evie and Natalie are riding the rotating couch to look at the Chuhuly Glass Ceiling. They both fell asleep on the way home.
Back at the house, we were getting ready for the party. This is the Fly Boat Cake that Evie requested. Let me tell you. This was a pretty simple cake to make and decorate, but, not with the assistance of an almost 4 year old. Everything was questioned. "Mommy, why isn't the frosting more purple? Why did you cut the cake in half? Are you going to eat that? Can I put the candies on? Why did you make 5 wheels?" Seriously, now I know why mom's decorate cakes after the kids go to bed. So you can drink a glass of wine and use four letter words liberally. This is a little known fact about me. I'm not a cake decorator. I'm a bakery caller. Those who know me will know that this is a huge cake decorating accomplishment even though it isn't covered in 10 thousand stars.

Ok, enough about the cake (can you tell it was a pretty big trauma for mom?)

Then we got down to the business of party! Here we are lighting the candles on the cake.
Everyone watches closely to make sure that the paper sail and the Wonder Pets don't go up in smoke. It was also Uncle Kevin's birthday this week. He turned 30. Wow, that's old. We made a special cake for him too. I had enough cake decorating energy left to pipe "Kevin's Youth, RIP"
Oliver wants to get the party started. He liked the blowers, unlike Stinks. We blew one for her and she burst into tears.

Down to the presents!!! Finally! What a pile! Oliver is excited and tried to open some too!
Thanks for the Keyboard, Aunt Becky and Uncle Brandon. We'll be making lots of beautiful music.
Uncle Kevin got some new nose hair trimmers. Presents get pretty boring when you get old.
Evie got two beautiful necklaces from her Grandparents.
Here's some present opening frenzy. Mom's cousin Karin, and her boyfriend Corey look on.

The next morning was tough. To come down off her sugar high, Annalise had a little chocolate donut for breakfast! Maybe that's why she was such a Stinker in church. We should have held the donut until after church!
Oliver still isn't walking. He said something about still being the baby until Aunt Becky's baby comes. We even tried to bribe him with a Fly Boat wheel (blue frosting covered little chocolate donut).
Stinks has barely recovered from the weekend. I'm not sure why or what she's icing, but it seems to help her feel better.

Thanks for all the gifts for Evie. We all had a great weekend!

Here's the birthday video. For some reason, it inserted down here.