Big Six years for Ben!

It's birthday month here at the Mower's.  We just celebrated Kirk's birthday and now it's onto this special little guys big day.  He's a big Six Year Old!  Ben's birthday this year was a little different.  I usually do a friends party for the little kids.  We have been in the process of getting our basement finished.  His birthday was also during Spring Break, so most of his cousins, and some of his friends would have been out of town.  I decided to wait on the friends party and just make Ben's favorite dinner and invite my parents over for his actual big day.  Dan's parents called and did face time from their mission which was a fun surprise.  We ate meatballs, hot dogs, and grapes.  All of those are Ben's favorite foods.  Then we sang happy birthday and had cake and ice cream.  I'll post some pictures of Ben's Birthday Party soon.  Our contractor just needs to paint the basement and then it's party time!  I picked up pillows on Black Friday for $2.00 each.  I will be sewing some cute pillow cases to go with the pillows.  It's going to be a "pretend"  sleepover.  The kids can come in their pajama's and have pizza, and pillow fights and watch a movie.  I've done this party for Kate and Kirk and it's a favorite.  So easy just food a movie and let the kids play and have fun.  

below are some pictures of Ben's cake.  He requested light sabers that cross.  I thought the concept would be pretty simple.  I googled a jellyroll cake recipe and baked it.  I added way to much strawberry jam for the filling and it was pretty oozy, and messy.  That was the blue light saber.  I decided to do something different and tried topping the cake with melted chocolate instead if frosting.  Pouring melted chocolate seemed like it would be easier, but it was a big failure. It turned out lumpy.  The next day I tried a different cake recipe still made in a cake sheet the rolled up with some chocolate filling in the middle.  It turned out way more tasty, but still the red chocolate melted on top turned out really lumpy again.  You live and learn note to self don't experiment with a new technique for a birthday.  He was happy with it so that's all that matters right!