Just a few snipits from Shelb's Hamster-ific b-day party a couple weeks ago! As you can see I'm way behind on blogging as usual, but trying to get slightly caught up before we leave Mexico! Above is most of her b-day "spread"...or the food part of it. It was all-out hamster stuff for this hamster-lovin' gal! Ever since we got Cuddles at Christmas she knew she wanted a hamster b-day party...and she kept to it....though I will say....finding hamster related party food items was no piece of cake (no punn intended :)), so I had to wing it with my own rendition of rodent cake(s), hamster cupcakes (which looked more like bunnies or dogs than hamsters) and hamster cake pops!
Here's the sad cake I made her. I will just admit that I had a bit of an overwhelming breakdown a couple days before the party. Making a cake was just not something I was up to. I was in the middle of about 10 different projects for the kids' schools and whatnot and the party was just not something I could focus on.....so actually....daddy Kev saw my despair and came to the rescue and made his little girl the cake she really wanted (which I'll show later)....this was an "after the fact" cake that I threw together the night before with extra fondant and supplies we had laying around. It looks more like a guinea pig than a hamster...but still....a rodent's a rodent, right?
Here's the party gang. She declared this year that she ONLY wanted her BEST friends there and not like 20 or 30 people which we've ended up with in the past. I was honestly relieved as we can't fit that many kids in our small house anyway. So, here's the best of the best, aside from two good friends who couldn't make it (and some silly siblings who party crashed it!) :)
Isn't my hamster-girl a beauty? Oh and I forgot to mention...she HAD to have this party be an "almost sleepover"....her now MI friend, Clara, had done this last year and she loved it and since I won't let her have an official slumber party yet, this was as close as she was a getting...so a "hamster-almost-sleepover" it was....with the party animals in their pjs!
Here is the darling cake that daddy, Kev, made. I was so proud of him and I think he surprised himself with his talent for fondant. I only baked the cake and crushed the ice cream cones on top and he made all the rest...complete with fondant food (carrots and pellets) and, yes, that is even fondant poop...what rodent cake would be complete w/o it?! It was a masterpiece, I thought. He worked really hard on it and Shelby LOVED it! :)
The crazy gang started off the evening with a pizza dinner! We don't usually do dinner at parties, but since it was a later-than-usual party we went for it!
Then we did a little hamster-dancing. Have you ever seen this video on u-tube? (The Hamster Dance) It's hilarious. The kids loved it and we still listen/watch it almost every day. It's got a groovy, catchy tune :)
More crazy pizza fun with Riley. She's a party animal!
Then it was game time. We were thankful it wasn't freezing outside and thankfully the rain held off til later on, so the pj gang went out back and played some hamster games...this one was "find the hamster food"
Shelby's team won with the most apples, carrots, lettuce, and tootsie rolls (supposed to be pellets)...
Then it was time to race the zhu zhus. They had a ball with this, though it got a bit rough when a zhu zhu attacked Sydne and ate her hair. Who knew zhu zhus were so vicious! Thankfully Sydne's "Cheese" Zhu Zhu won the race so that made it all better :)
Then we made our own "twinkie" hamsters and had a contest with them. Shelby won...I think for most creative name?
Then it was cake time. Honestly, most of the kids had just eaten their twinkie rodents so we didn't hardly even cut into the cakes (big surprise!). Shelby is going crazy here cuz she thinks Ben is going to blow out her candles. She's a "candle" hog! :)
Then it was time for one more hamster game...roll the ball....tee hee :)
And then the party was over...actually it went an hour over what it was supposed to...the kids had so much fun. We even had Cuddles at our party. I took some pics of the kids holding him, but I'm too tired to figure out why they didn't post on here....Cuddles is a good sport though. Shes' the best hamster ever!
Here's Shelby with most of her wonderful loot! She has such giving friends who know what she LOVES...and, YAY, she finally got some hexbugs! :)
Oh and let's not forget to post some pics of the hard working Nina on Shelby's actual b-day helping make her hamster invites. This will probably be the only time you see Nina being crafty (on my blog at least :)) She claims to not be artsy fartsy, but I think she is :) Thanks, Nina!
I can't get this to post straight, but this is the back of the invite. You can see the front from what Nina is holding up with a picture of a hamster that Shelby drew herself. They were very cute and Shelby helped come up with the whole idea...it had to have pics of her and Cuddles on it and her fav. hamster poem. I love my creative girl! And below is our hamster goody bag! Thank goodness for Oriental Trading and their few hamster goodies. I was glad it even came...it arrived the day before the party! Phew! And we had to have a geode (for the kids to break open) in the loot bag too...Shelb's fav thing!
So, that was that....never thought I'd have a rodent party, but ya' do what ya' do for your little girl who loves these little rodents! She had the best time ever and so did her friends. Now onto the last days of school and our month of June vacations to Cancun, FL and NC! YAY!!!!
Just a few snipits from Shelb's Hamster-ific b-day party a couple weeks ago! As you can see I'm way behind on blogging as usual, but trying to get slightly caught up before we leave Mexico! Above is most of her b-day "spread"...or the food part of it. It was all-out hamster stuff for this hamster-lovin' gal! Ever since we got Cuddles at Christmas she knew she wanted a hamster b-day party...and she kept to it....though I will say....finding hamster related party food items was no piece of cake (no punn intended :)), so I had to wing it with my own rendition of rodent cake(s), hamster cupcakes (which looked more like bunnies or dogs than hamsters) and hamster cake pops!
Here's the sad cake I made her. I will just admit that I had a bit of an overwhelming breakdown a couple days before the party. Making a cake was just not something I was up to. I was in the middle of about 10 different projects for the kids' schools and whatnot and the party was just not something I could focus on.....so actually....daddy Kev saw my despair and came to the rescue and made his little girl the cake she really wanted (which I'll show later)....this was an "after the fact" cake that I threw together the night before with extra fondant and supplies we had laying around. It looks more like a guinea pig than a hamster...but still....a rodent's a rodent, right?
Here's the party gang. She declared this year that she ONLY wanted her BEST friends there and not like 20 or 30 people which we've ended up with in the past. I was honestly relieved as we can't fit that many kids in our small house anyway. So, here's the best of the best, aside from two good friends who couldn't make it (and some silly siblings who party crashed it!) :)
Isn't my hamster-girl a beauty? Oh and I forgot to mention...she HAD to have this party be an "almost sleepover"....her now MI friend, Clara, had done this last year and she loved it and since I won't let her have an official slumber party yet, this was as close as she was a getting...so a "hamster-almost-sleepover" it was....with the party animals in their pjs!
Here is the darling cake that daddy, Kev, made. I was so proud of him and I think he surprised himself with his talent for fondant. I only baked the cake and crushed the ice cream cones on top and he made all the rest...complete with fondant food (carrots and pellets) and, yes, that is even fondant poop...what rodent cake would be complete w/o it?! It was a masterpiece, I thought. He worked really hard on it and Shelby LOVED it! :)
The crazy gang started off the evening with a pizza dinner! We don't usually do dinner at parties, but since it was a later-than-usual party we went for it!
Then we did a little hamster-dancing. Have you ever seen this video on u-tube? (The Hamster Dance) It's hilarious. The kids loved it and we still listen/watch it almost every day. It's got a groovy, catchy tune :)
More crazy pizza fun with Riley. She's a party animal!
Then it was game time. We were thankful it wasn't freezing outside and thankfully the rain held off til later on, so the pj gang went out back and played some hamster games...this one was "find the hamster food"
Shelby's team won with the most apples, carrots, lettuce, and tootsie rolls (supposed to be pellets)...
Then it was time to race the zhu zhus. They had a ball with this, though it got a bit rough when a zhu zhu attacked Sydne and ate her hair. Who knew zhu zhus were so vicious! Thankfully Sydne's "Cheese" Zhu Zhu won the race so that made it all better :)
Then we made our own "twinkie" hamsters and had a contest with them. Shelby won...I think for most creative name?
Then it was cake time. Honestly, most of the kids had just eaten their twinkie rodents so we didn't hardly even cut into the cakes (big surprise!). Shelby is going crazy here cuz she thinks Ben is going to blow out her candles. She's a "candle" hog! :)
Then it was time for one more hamster game...roll the ball....tee hee :)
And then the party was over...actually it went an hour over what it was supposed to...the kids had so much fun. We even had Cuddles at our party. I took some pics of the kids holding him, but I'm too tired to figure out why they didn't post on here....Cuddles is a good sport though. Shes' the best hamster ever!
Here's Shelby with most of her wonderful loot! She has such giving friends who know what she LOVES...and, YAY, she finally got some hexbugs! :)
Oh and let's not forget to post some pics of the hard working Nina on Shelby's actual b-day helping make her hamster invites. This will probably be the only time you see Nina being crafty (on my blog at least :)) She claims to not be artsy fartsy, but I think she is :) Thanks, Nina!
I can't get this to post straight, but this is the back of the invite. You can see the front from what Nina is holding up with a picture of a hamster that Shelby drew herself. They were very cute and Shelby helped come up with the whole idea...it had to have pics of her and Cuddles on it and her fav. hamster poem. I love my creative girl! And below is our hamster goody bag! Thank goodness for Oriental Trading and their few hamster goodies. I was glad it even came...it arrived the day before the party! Phew! And we had to have a geode (for the kids to break open) in the loot bag too...Shelb's fav thing!
So, that was that....never thought I'd have a rodent party, but ya' do what ya' do for your little girl who loves these little rodents! She had the best time ever and so did her friends. Now onto the last days of school and our month of June vacations to Cancun, FL and NC! YAY!!!!
1 comments:
WOW!! What a GREAT party!!! Looks like the kiddos had an awesome time!!Have FUN in Cancun!! :)
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