Butterfly's Birthday Lunch

This is yet another post that's been waiting in the wings, half finished.  Thought I'd take a few minutes at lunch to finish it.

 

We don't do many parties for the kids after their 5th birthday, so we had a couple of Butterfly's friends over for lunch.  She loves the Tangled movie, so we went with that theme for her "cake" and for a craft that afternoon.

 

Her food choice was a pasta bar.  We had marinara, alfredo and a creamy garlic butter sauce as well as spaghetti, penne and angel hair pasta.  We also had salad and garlic bread per the birthday girl's request.

 

Nana bought favor bags and her friends took home their craft, a flower stamp, watercolor paints and a picture of Repunzel to paint.

 

I made Repunzel tower cupcakes.  REALLY glad I decided to make only 6 (for the kids and the cake) and use the rest of the batter to make a layered cake for the adults.  They're cute cupcakes, but it would have taken forever to make a dozen or so of them.

 

She absolutly loved how the cupcakes turned out!

This was the best I felt like doing after midnight on the layered cake.  I didn't feel like making brown icing for the cobblestones.  You get the picture.

Singing to the birthday girl!

And he wonders how he got icing in his nose!

 

Not a great picture, but the only one I have of her and her friends from lunch.

The craft was making Pascal from card stock and party blowers.  Other than the birthday girl yawning the entire way through the craft, they kids had a blast!  Pappy & the Knight might say otherwise as they were the target of honking party blowers during their nap.