ponies and cars parties

Heather and Charlie had a combined birthday party this morning to celebrate their 5th and 3rd birthdays with friend from their class. About 20 kids total were there (including all siblings) and everyone seemed to have a good time. we had a pony ball toss and pin-the-tail on the pony as well as a cars ring toss and pin the wheel on the car as well as the whole playground to play on. The kids all ate cake and watched the birthday girl and boy open presents. All in all it was nice and the rain has held off all day despite thunderstorm predictions for all day (it was a bit nerve racking!!). Really the party was uneventful and the only failure was that Jeff and I were too busy running games and working cakes and presents to take very many pictures. One more birthday cake to make (for Charlie tomorrow) and my string will end for a while. I think I've made 5 cakes/cupcakes and 1 cookie cake (for Charlie's class in the last 10 days ;-) Jeff suggested taking a cake decorating class, or asking a lady he knows to give me lessons--i'm not sure if that was complimentary or due to the result of my decorating (we didn't get pictures of the cakes either :-(