happy 5th birthday to my super boy jack!

hey everyone! i just want to share with you an awesome post...

if you couldn't tell by the title, my biggest little man just turned 5... i'm still in shock... i cannot believe he is 5 years old already... i cannot even imagine my life before he came along... i'm so proud to be his mommy...

okay okay... enough of the mushy mom stuff... and on to the cake and the party... the theme... super hero training camp... how cool is that! with the help of my awesomely talented neighbor, i had super hero capes and masks made for all the little super heros that were attending the party... but the thing was they had to earn them...

first they had to silly string the bad guy (just like spider man), they had to beat up the villain (using some over sized and over stuffed hulk hands to beat down on a bop-bag) they had to find the pieces of kryptonite that were hidden in the playground and place it safely in a lead box, and finally they had to take down the villains (my hubs and my sister boyfriend) by wrapping them in toilet paper... and then they graduated and received their capes... it was a success...




here's super ben... i'm telling you, the minute this little guy had his cape on he started to strut... it was hysterical...


here's jack with some of the kryptonite...


now for the cake...

i decided to make a dummy cake for the centerpiece, using styrofoam circles... and i covered and decorated it with fondant... the idea was to make it look like super jack was busting out of the center of the cake, and i think it looked super adorable... and made 3 dozen cupcakes, each with wither blue, red or yellow buttercream (you know, those bold superhero colors!)... and each had a star on top which was cut out from airheads (thanks mom!)
it was so windy that the candles wouldn't stay lit long enough for us to sing, so my dad (who bythe-way always has something handy) had this firecracker sparkler thing which came in super handy...

here's jack after he blew out his candles... so cute...

here's a behind the scenes glimpse at me hard at work...

and a close up of my fondant super jack! i love that face!

happy birthday jack! and happy baking everyone!

p.s. i think i said super in the post like a bagillion times :)