Make a wish, Annika!

Check out my shirt and fun hairdo.

Pinwheel party time is over but the pinwheels are still spinning around the house. We had such a lovely time!
 Here is Annika in the shirt and headband I made. Already stained with berry juice and pizza! Annika loved all of the attention at her party and made the rounds sitting with just about everyone.

Aunt Susan made the cake. There are three layers forming a Neapolitan cake. I made the pinwheels and the pennant banner name. I love that cake!  We all loved eating it with Neapolitan ice cream (well, separate half gallons of each flavor).

Did I mention that I spent a late night plus some extra hours creating a pinwheel photo-op structure?  We had an extra large piece of cardboard lying around so it was an easy paint-up job. This is Annika with Maddison and Audrey.

The games were fun. Apparently Audrey and Maddison spent some time talking with their mom before bed about the fun they had. "All the games had pinwheels!"  Talk about your greasy heart- that's mine- all happy and greasy. :)  Annika did pull out a few of the strings on the pinata and then she watched the older kids swing the bat around. It didn't take long to bust it!

The pull-string failed but the baseball bat got the job done!

Morning after rainbow fruit (with no raspberries).

 Oh, if only I had the photos of the food!  I just never got around to it on the day of the party. We hollowed out this gynormous zucchini that we accidentally let get to be too large to eat. Steve wanted to let it make it to the compost pile with dignity but I said no way. We halved it, hollowed it out and then filled it with cut veggies. It looked really cool and almost yin and yang like on the tray. Next to it we had a deep dish pizza pan loaded up with wedges of fruits in a rainbow of colors. Steve forgot to buy blueberries but the effect was still quite awesome. We had leftovers so we enjoyed the rainbow the next day except that raspberries were a favorite with my oldest daighter and her friends so they were missing. But you get the idea!  Pinterest got me hooked on the idea but the pictures I saw were not done in a circle.

Annika's birthday pinwheel cake on her actual birthday.

Check out this site for the recipe for this cake roll. It was fantastic!