Molly just turned 6 years old - I can't believe it! Where has 6 years gone! We were in the midst of planning her birthday party when she changed her mind of doing paint-your-own pottery at a store downtown (with someone else cleaning up the mess) to having a pizza party (and now the mess is at our own house). It threw me for a loop but, in the end, it turned out rather nice. We were able to have a five of her school friends over to make their own pizzas, create their own art masterpiece, and decorate cupcakes. Highlights from the whole shindig:
- Making Grandma's cake icing recipe from scratch (need to practice that recipe just a little bit) tinting the icing ourselves! Molly was giving me pointers based on her experience with Grandma.
- Using the dough docker on the pizza dough is always fun (if you don't know what a dough docker is, visit Shakespeare's in Columbia - it's the thing they roll on the dough to make little holes, so the crust doesn't have big bubbles).
- "Taste of the Hill" pizza sauce from Urzi's in St. Louis, yummy - enough said.
- 550 degree double ovens to bake the pizzas just like (almost) in the restaurants. It only takes about 5 minutes per pizza!
- Painting their canvases but even more fun was mixing paint colors to create new hues.
- Decorating the cupcakes with lots of icing
- (This one's purely for me...) Timing the activities just right so that I had enough time to clean up the table for the next round of activities.
Here's a short video from the party!
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