Aiming for the Clouds. No really, that is exactly what he said he was doing.
Get ready for way too many pictures of the cake. You will wonder why so many. I was just so proud of Bel's creation and I was proud of the continents. I actually cut those out of fondant. I am so not good at that sort of thing. Completely free hand. Can you recognize Florida?
I really did mean to bring a cake knife to the party. I forgot and can you believe we didn't even have plastic knives! But Uncle Colt saved the day. He carries a machete in his vehicle. So machete was the tool of choice for cake cutting. A bit cumbersome, a tad sloppy, but it worked.
The "earth" was make of cereal treats. They were very tightly compressed so it almost felt like you were trying to bite through a rocky inner planet.
.... and Gillian let the kids try the sphere.
What was left of the week long creation ...
Jerry CLine Park has some great trees for climbing. The tree the boys are in overlooked the cake table. Bruce actually made it almost to the top of a pine tree before we realized it. Mommy just about had a heart attack.
It's not often you get a picture with three sisters...
Presents ... many more pictures of this. Most of them a blur or of children's backs darting in.
The big finale was a spaceship pinata. If you hadn't noticed the theme was space, spaceships and the planet earth. Originally Bruce said he wanted a birthday cake that was a "tank of the Earth." As in the Earth inside a fish tank. None of us are sure of the origin but we think it was some kind of space habitat he saw on a cartoon. Of the pictures I took, only the two little girls weren't a blur. The big kids swung so fast!
Bruce was very excited to control the pinata rope. It took some doing to keep him from being obnoxious or banging the spaceship against the tree limb in his enthusiam to jerk it up and out of the way of his friends.
Nice thing about a birthday just after the 4th of July .... sparklers.
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