Four Years Old!!!

Wow! Do I really have a four year old? Crazy! This weekend we had my little girls party. Of course it never fails and her party is like the hottest day of the year so everyone kind of ends up in my long skinny no where to sit living room. We actually have a nice roomy basement with plenty of seats, well maybe not plenty, but more than upstairs but it gets sooooo cold down there nobody wants to stay down there for more than a minute.

Anyway the party was fun. We had a the Party Pups theme basically because I was just trying to do simple this year so we just went to Target and bought whatever. I wanted either the dog one or strawberry shortcake and my daughter didn't seem to care so dogs it was.

Now I had grand visions of this adorable cake I had seen a picture of. I told everyone that I was going to make a fondant cake. I was pretty excited. Let me see if I can find a picture of it.

Ahhh this cake right here:

See...isn't it cute? I was going to make the pink part lime green and then I was going to make the dogs look like the ones on the shirt she was wearing. So I bought all the ingredients to make marshmallow fondant. I watched a YouTube video on how to do it and I thought I was all set. Hey , I can read a recipe card so no problem....right???

Ummm well....

Maybe it was because I was cleaning for like two weeks and had been working so hard that I was exhausted. Maybe it was because I started the icing at 9pm (which was crazy, the first step of the recipe was slather your counter with crisco and all over your hands-um yeah that was fun to clean....NOT!). Maybe it was because I didn't read the instructions as good as I should have. Well lets just say....at around midnight and rolling that stupid fondant out for the umpteenth time and lots of tears I gave up. I was so sad because I really really really wanted this cake!!!

Well I ended up with this one. It is okay...I thought it turned out pretty good considering I had put fondant on it twice and ripped it off twice and had used up almost all of the icing but this is what we ended up with:

I actually really like the sides but wasn't crazy about the top but hey it was like 2am and I was tired!

Anyway the party was nice. Lots of friends and family came. The kids had fun playing in the pond (yuck!) and playing pool downstairs. Well they didn't call it pool they called it Bullseye!

Anyway still crazy to think its been four years since she was born!

This was her after a long day of partying. After the party we went out to eat and then when we got home she helped her daddy in the barn so thats why her face is so red. She also has a band-aid on her cheek from when she got scratched at the party!

So that was our weekend. What about you? Anything fun? Drop me a line!