Ramos Tribe Adventures: May the FORCE be with you!

It is our birthday season again. Kaden and Isaiah are both born in the fall so this time of year is full of birthday planing. Every year I tell myself "Tabitha, go small" "Don't go Extreme" But I never take my own advise. Well this year is no different. Maybe because I want my children to have an awesome birthday or maybe because secretly I want to make the coolest cake I can! So far Kaden has had a Winnie the Pooh, Nemo, Train, Pirate ship and a Castle cake. All turned out cute. This year or I should say the day after his birthday LAST year he began planning his next BIG day! He really wanted a Star Wars party. Being a huge Star Wars fan, I was totally up for it. Till the flood happened, then the evacuation, then our return, yearly shopping, the mad dash to clean everything up, Volunter teams, moose season, meat processing, and school starting. In between all of those things I forgot what month it was until one day during school Kaden and I were working on the calendar because it was the last day of September. At the moment Kaden turns to me excited and said "It's October tomorrow so in 12 days it is my birthday!" My reaction was PANIC..... I knew with all the going on's I missed SOMETHING and sure enough that was what is was. I had 2 weeks to plan a party for my son. We talked about what he wanted and it was still Star Wars and he informed me he wanted a Millinnium Falcon cake or a Death star! I told him I am not THAT good at cake creating yet so we will have to wait a few years on that one but I would think about it and figure out what cool cake I could create. That evening I looked on line for ideas and found a few. R2D2 being my favorite. The next morning I showed Kaden R2 D2 and he was thrilled with the idea. Being in Galena you have to make cakes with what you have on hand and sometimes that is a little bit hard. But I had round cake pans and a bowl shape cake pan. I was thinking to my self " I CAN DO THIS!" How hard can it be to make a tall R2D2 cake with Rice Krispie Treat legs? Well when your husband and boys ate the last bowl of Rice Krispies that you have in stock it can prove to be quite difficult! So without legs, and with the help of my decorating buddy Kaitlyn we tried to create R2D2 cake in 3D! Besides it almost falling to pieces because the cake was so soft and it looked like it got run over by the storm troopers, it still turned out cute. Kaden liked it a lot so at least I succeed in making him happy!

We made him and Isaiah Jedi outfits with some old towels and had lots of cool Jedi games planned. Sadly the weather must have forgotten it was his birthday and rained all day leaving all the young Jedi stuck indoors building Lego space ships. But they were happy to do that. It was a fun party. How can it not be when your party involves friends, cake and Star Wars?

My Little Jedi and his little Droid