Birthday Extravaganza Post 1 of A Few More

How old is Anna??? Four!

The story of two bouncers... I have a place to recommend if you are interested in renting a bouncer. It is called Santa's & More. Their number is 586-263-9479. Call them, you can't go wrong. Last year we rented a bouncer for 24 hours (Saturday 10 am - Sunday 10 am). They dropped it off Friday because they were "in the area" and didn't pick it up until Tuesday. Which was awesome because that was the weekend that hurricane whatever name raced through and dumped 6 inches of rain on Michigan. So this year, they still gave me last year's price. They showed up at 10 am on Saturday with two bouncers. The delivery man, also known as the owner's son clarified what bouncer we wanted and set it up. Then upon leaving asked us if we wanted the other bouncer set up since they didn't have it scheduled that weekend and he brought it... for free.

Um, sure.

So that is why we were one of those families that looked like we went all out for our daughter's birthday and probably annoyed several neighbors... but, whatever. It was a blast.

Here I am with the girls and my 91 year old grandma (aka GG for great-grandma to Anna) in the background.

This year was a princess cake again... but this time Anna wanted a pink and purple cake. Knowing how long last year's cake took me (over 12 hours in total) I only made three types of icing; chocolate, pink and purple, and kept the design simple. Here is something to gross you out... in total, this cake had the following quantities of ingredients: two cake mixes, two sticks of butter, four eggs (not to bad). The icing in and outside the cake: 6 cups of Crisco shortening, 6 pounds of powdered sugar... and a few other ingredients that are not as shocking as 6 cups of shortening or 6 pounds of powdered sugar... cake decorating is serious business. Now I know why decorated cakes are so expensive!

Bouncer love with Aunt Christe! The "Safe Corner" for bouncer tag.

Lunch time! Pizza!

Baby's first trip down the little slide on one of the bouncers... don't worry, before long she was flying down the big slide on the big bouncer, going down head first, on her face... whatever.

Sister love through the big bouncing ring in one of the bouncers.

Fried Maisie, Cousin McKenna and Birthday girl Anna.
Present Time!

The big present of the year was Anna's new princess scooter from Grammy and Grampy!

This year we also got a pinata. It was a lot of fun, although I think the kids were not to sure what to do at first once the candy started flying out of it... but they figured it out. They now make them with strings that you pull that open up the trap door... so no more kids wielding plastic bats and hitting dad in the crotch while he raises and lowers the pinata. Too bad, there goes our chance at AFV $10,000 prize! Of course it was a princess pinata.