Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Elsa turns 7!

Elsa's birthday was on February 19th. She made a pretty good haul. I think Henry's used the pogo stick more than she has. When she finished opening up her presents she said the words no parent who was up until midnight getting a party ready wants to hear: "You know what I really wanted?"

Hesitantly we asked her. "More birthday cards," she said. We explained that birthday cards usually don't come from parents (at least until you're in college), and that she'd be getting some from her friends later that day. That brightened her up. And other that having another confirmation that she's a little nuts, we were very relieved, too.

This year's theme was an Artist's Party. My cousin Brittany, who is an excellent illustrator, came to show the girls how to draw Tinkerbell and unicorns (and the girls' renditions were surprisingly good). While Brittany had the illustrators at one station, girls at another station were painting their canvases.

Just so they weren't at a loss and suffer a humiliating artists block in the middle of the party, we gave them the theme "Your Best Summer Day." We had lots of blue skies and ice cream cones. But only Elsa gave us an ice cream cone floating in the ocean near a pink palm tree. Very Dali.

My artistic contribution was this rainbow cake that I found on the Martha Stewart website. It's a double rainbow all the way!


3 comments:

4lakedames said...

holy AWESOME cake! Good job Greg on making that!! hee!!
I love that ELSA is the nut she is! What a lovely nut!
Cant wait to use that pogo stick! I used that on my mission for exercise!
Hope mom tries it out!

McCall said...

That cake is out of this world!!

LeeAnn said...

Happy Birthday Elsa, a little late! What a party and what a cake! Was it delicious or just extremely fun or all of the above?