The Ferris {family} Wheel: Nick's 5th Birthday

Nick turned FIVE last week, can you believe it? I can't, I am still in denial. We did a little surprise for him on his actual birthday, mostly to give him the presents from us and to keep it a bit more personal that what would happen at the party, but also so his day was special even though there was still 2 more days till the party. We decorated before bed, so he could wake up to the fun!

He was of course so surprised and love it to pieces. He got a hand-me-down iPod touch and a Power Rangers Morph thingy. Then of course, his favorite which has become a tradition for birthdays, a bag of the little donettes and chocolate milk. His favorite part was, like any 5 year old... the balloons hanging from the ceiling! :-)

For his party, we did a small carnival, which I have worked on for months now. We got this extremely disappointing call around 8:30 am saying that the bounce place wouldn't be bringing out the inflatables we had rented because there was a possibility of a wind advisory later that day (the wind never got bad, but what can ya do?). Thankfully, our church has a small bounce house and they were super awesome and called to offer it to us as soon as they found out. The party went absolutely wonderful, with the small exception of me getting extremely sick in the middle, with what we now know to be the beginning of a pretty bad asthma attack. I pushed through and made sure that my baby's party was amazing, thankfully with the help of some amazing friends!

Karen, Patty and Phylicia, I don't know how I could have done it without you. All three of you could tell something was up and jumped in to help without me asking... even took the time to make me slow down and take care of myself. I couldn't ask for better friends!

Josh and Andrew really rose to the occasion too, and rocked the games and keeping the kids entertained! I think they actually had more fun than most of the kids did!

There were many other friends who helped too, but I couldn't possibly mention them all! Please know that I appreciate every single one of you. Thank you for helping Nick's party flow so well!

Now for some pictures!!!

This one is Nick and his 'girlfriend' Emme. They tagged along together all day, they held hands and cheered each other on for games. They adore each other, and it's a great thing her mom and I get along, because I see a lifetime of friendship beginning!

And another of them in clown attire:

This is him wearing the hat that Emme gave him (she also had several pictures she drew for him!) *awe*:

Ring toss:

Finger painting wall:

Donut on a string:

Victory:

The cake I made him:

Just so you can see the inside of it:

To do this, I made the cake batter and separated it and colored it with gel food coloring. You want the batter to be the color you want the final result to be. Then I used my cake ball/doughnut hole maker (bought at Target) and made several different colored balls. Then when I poured the cake in the pans, I put the cake balls into the batter. I cut some in half to put against the edge of the pan, although, with stacking cakes and frosting it, you can't really tell, so next time I will just do the full ones. Then I colored the frosting again with the gel food coloring (you can find it in the craft section of Walmart by the wedding cake stuff). Then I covered it in sprinkles.

I found the little bitty cones at Target and stuffed them with the trimmings that I cut off the top of the cake and then used the chocolate frosting in a squirt can to make the top look like ice cream, and then topped with a sour cherry. :-)

And just because I can... here is my hubby! He was awesome and even had a dino tattoo on his check! Hot stuff! :)