I never got around to posting about Ethan’s birthday party, probably because I hardly took any pictures at all, but I figured I better get to it before Jillian’s birthday gets here! There is Ethan in the orange shirt, its the ONLY pictures that I got of him during the entire party! What a cute bunch of kids collecting candy from the Pokeball pinata (they were super good sharing…it was a pleasant surprise)! Including our own kids, there were 19 kids at the party. We lucked out and had great weather and everything went well. I love having parties for the kids! I don’t understand when parents aren’t into throwing birthday parties, I don’t think I could ever get tired of it!

Ethan and Ben are both really into Pokemon right now and it was an easy theme for a party. I made Pokeball cupcakes for him to bring into school and for the party. They were super easy. I went for the best look with the least amount of effort/time expended. Simply frost the entire cupcake with white frosting and then dip half into a plate of red colored sugar (much quicker than using 2 colors of frosting and boy would you need a lot of coloring to get red and not pink), then use a pastry bag to pipe a wide stripe of chocolate frosting, add an extra little drop of chocolate frosting in the center of the stripe and then push in a mini marshmallow.

For the Pokeball pinata I had originally planned on making my own (made a basketball one once and it was great) BUT I got lazy and bought a baseball pinata and altered it. I carefully pulled off the red lines off of half, painted half red and then added a black stripe and white circle (the circle was the only part I wasn’t happy with but it was just going to get smashed so I didn’t care). Unfortunately the store bought pinata wasn’t as sturdy as my super strong basketball one and the kids were a lot stronger at 7 yrs old, so the pinata broke a bit prematurely. The kids thought it was a fun hat though!

John really is smart, he thought of leaving our computer on with the Mac photo booth open! The kids made over a hundred silly pictures of themselves and it was fun to look at after. They liked doing it on their own and had fun with the weird settings (like those goofy carnival mirrors but better).

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