Well...Yesterday went well, the party was low key and I now officially am the mother of a teenager!

Nature Boy had all sorts of ideas for his party yesterday.  It was a Mario themed and he had asked for Mario Party 8 for the Wii for a present from us.  He was going to have outdoor fun doing a Mario themed obstacle course and then have time playing Mario Party inside...But the weather did not cooperate.  It rained all day yesterday....I don't think it let up until supper time. The constant drizzle shifted the party indoors and it became a Mario Party Wii party....Which is fine, the boys were happy.

Here are some things I drew that were supposed to be part of the obstacle course.  Nature Boy was going to have a "fishing" station with Lakitu.

And part of the course was going to be riding Yoshi....as in on a Yoshi hobby horse.  So I drew a head (well, two, one for each side) to be the head on the hobby horse.

Since we didn't go outside, I just hung them as decorations in the living room.

The other thing that Nature Boy wanted was a mushroom shaped cake.  Specifically, a green "extra life" Mario mushroom.  That was lots of fun to make.  I baked a cake in a round botttomed Pyrex casserole dish and used some mini cake pans we had to bake pieces for the mushroom's stem.

Frosted and stacked and skewered to keep the top from sliding off (the top needed to be at an angle as per the model mushroom) the cake looked pretty nice!

Then Nature Boy said he didn't want to put candles in the mushroom cake and asked if I could use a leftover mini cake as the candle cake. Sounded fair to me!  So...I decorated it like a mushroom too.

Then since it was so hot and humid and the frosting was just melting like crazy on the cakes...I stashed them in the fridge.  It was fun so see them whenever we went to get something out of the fridge!

And here's another shot before we lit the candles.

All in all, I'd say it was a good party.  The kids had fun. The cake was cute....You can't ask for much more than that!!!

Now...shifting gears: My licensing exam in in 17 days!  This week, I am shifting gears and will be spending each morning applying myself to my studies!