Sydney's Cooking Party

With MUCH anticipation Sydney invited her friends to her COOKING PARTY!!!

Sydney shows-off the required attire...
a decorated chef's hat and an apron
(hand made by ME)

Emma was also VERY excited to be a part of the festivities.
And chose to dress up just like her older sis.

The kids were impressed with our BALLOON ceiling.

Larry took on the "dirty deed" of teaching the kids how to roll out their dough and make their own pizza's.

The hardest part was convincing the kids that it was OK to not have a perfectly round pizza.

Thankfully Ben was content to roll his dough for a good 30 mins.

After they ate, we brought out the paints and each kid decorated their own rolling pins.

Then we let each kid decorate their own "cupcake cones".

Guess who's "6"?

I think Sydney asked me 15 times... "when are we opening presents?"

And finally it was pinata time...
(I enjoyed not having a bat being swung around as a liability, but the 2nd string that was pulled emptied the whole pinata...NOT very productive)

After all was said and done, we were pooped, the house was a wreck but Sydney did say that this was the BEST DAY EVER!
(mission accomplished)