Logan graduated from George Washington Elementary School this past June and my friend Michelle asked if I wanted to do a pool party at her house for both Logan and her daughter Lauren. As soon as the word "yes" came out of my mouth, we started planning. Michelle is amazing, she really knows how to decorate and throw a party. She ordered goodie bags, candy, decorations and paper products all in red and white. She put up the tents in her yard and did all the decorations, the yard looked great!! She ordered an inflatable slip and slide and water bucket drop. The kids loved it all.
While she was doing all the work, I was home decorating the cake and making little red velvet cupcakes which were iced with cream cheese frosting and a cherry. They looked so cool, I just loved how they looked on the table. You can see them in the photos below. We put them on long popsicle sticks and placed them in glass jars.
Now for the cake, the Marty and Mike decided that a cake of the school would be cool and both Logan and Lauren decided they liked that idea. Michelle and I protested since there isn't much character to the school but the kids insisted so a cake of the school it was. I decided to add items to the top of the cake that were meaningful to both the kids in order to jazz it up a bit so I added:
- two string instruments a Base (Logan) Viola (Lauren)
- Museum of Natural History, this was their 5th grade field trip
- Daren the Lion for the DARE program
- George Washington Mascot, George which was drawn by a kindergarten years ago
- Graduation cap and white tassel with 2013 drawn on
- Both kids took the 510 yellow bus to school and home so I made a school bus
- GW letters on stone that are in front of the school
- For good behavior and accomplishments, the teachers would give the kids paper cherries which could add up and they would get special things throughout the years.
- GW motto about "Being George" on the side of the cake
So here is the cake making process.
I got too tired to take photos intermittently therefore, here is the end result.
The white cherry by the grad cap wasn't suppose to be there, someone put it there before I took the pictures.
Look closely, with the heat and humidity, the cake started to bulge in the front. Not the prettiest cake but the kids LOVED it. I had trouble trying to get a photo because they were all jumping in front, some taking pictures others just yelling "look at this or that" they were so excited, I was so fearful that the cake was going to be toppled over LOL. The thrill of making a cake this big is the reaction of the kids, they don't care that it's not perfect, they love it and that makes all those hours of work and lack of sleep worth it.
I hope you enjoyed the photos, now that this is over I can concentrate on making scrapbook pages and cards again.
Have a great day!!
Delia
