Well everyone knows I love to bake and decorate cookies & cakes.  If I can involve kids in this I enjoy it that much more.  So I decided in February that I was going to host a Decorating Day for family & friends children.

I ordered the cutest invites from www.vistaprint.com and had them within a week.  I sent out invites to 25 children.  On the day of the party I ended up with 15 decorators (also had the moms/grandmas/aunts/brothers of some of the girls). 

The day before the party I took the day off of work and baked 117 shaped sugar cookies,  baked 17 “Egg” shaped cakes, and made enough super sugar buttercream to cover it all.  I started baking around 11:30am and really wasn’t finished until almost midnight!  But seeing how much fun the kids had made all the work worth it!

I kept saying I probably wouldn’t do it again, but who am I kidding…I LOVED IT and CAN”T WAIT TO HOST ANOTHER!  Although I’m thinking of instead of doing it only once a year that I kind of want to do it twice a year so that we can get the fall/christmas cookies in, but we’ll see.

I had a ton of help from my best friend Lori and really couldn’t have accomplished all the baking without her!  She and her little neices took over the set up for me and forced me to leave at almost midnight the night before.

I had a coloring book area for the kids who got bored with the cookies and have some lovely artwork up on my wall at work.

I hope that everyone had as much fun that day as I did.  I only wish that I could have spent more time actually decorating with the kids.  Next time I know what needs to be done differently so that I can enjoy it even more with them!