Celebrating FOUR with a 4-wheeler Birthday!

Justin made his request for his birthday cake this year pretty earlier on.  He wanted a four-wheeler cake.  He decided this before he even picked where his party would be.  It literally took me until a week before his party to realize that we had picked the PERFECT theme for a 4-year old birthday.  What better year to have FOUR wheelers than the birthday in which he was turning FOUR?!

This might have been the hardest theme I have had yet when it comes to making a cake.  There were almost zero ideas out there on the massive internet world for four-wheelers.  We had to use our own creativity to make this one work.  I seen a 4x4 fondant four-wheeler that someone was selling as a cake topper on etsy but she wanted $24 and Jonathan also wasn't a big fan of the 4x4.  He wanted Justin's four wheeler to be a sport bike.  So, I put my husband to the task of working with fondant this year and creating the four wheelers.  He did a pretty awesome job for not even having anything to go off of.  He did this all out of a picture he had in his head!

 

My next challenge was the cake.  I orginally planned on making a two-tier circular cake for the four wheelers to be placed on, but after searching the internet, I had found some people using a number 4 to go with their theme (not four wheeler theme but just any theme).  I wasn't sure what I liked better so I gave Justin the choice.  He picked the number 4.  After the fact, I realized there wasn't enough time to order a number 4 cake pan and I had to figure out how to form the four myself.  Most people used a rectangular pan and cut pieces, but I hate frosting a cut cake.  It also ends up with crumbs over the icing.  Instead I ended up using mini bread pans, and it worked great!  I also make cupcakes and cupcake toppers since when everything was done, we realized we would have enough cake for our large party!

 



Planning the party is always so much fun for me, but the best part of course was watching how much fun our big 4-year old had with all his friends at his Bounce-U birthday party!  We had a bit of a hiccup as the weather decided to play tricks on us.  His party was scheduled for Friday and a nice ice/rain storm hit Friday morning for us.  We ended up having to reschedule the party for Sunday.  Luckily, all but one of our guests were able to make the change, but sadly Daddy was scheduled at a job out of town and had to leave Saturday so he had to miss the party.

The kids had a blast on all the slides and bounce houses.  I wasn't the greatest at taking pictures.  I realized afterwards that I only got some shots of Justin having some fun and failed to really get any of Katelynn and Ryan.  It was too hard to host and snap the pictures!

After playtime, we enjoyed pizza and cake before heading home to open gifts!

The kids tried out the hurricane ride before leaving.. all three of them had a blast in that thing!

Then it was home to open all his fun presents!

 

Even with the hiccups in the weather, I think it's safe to say that our little guy had an awesome 4th birthday party!  He gave each one of his friends a "thank you" treat bag, which consisted of chocolate donuts.. aka four wheeling tires.

 

We ended the evening by having dinner out with Grandma and Grandpa Carney before they headed back to Georgia and I put my 3-year old to sleep in his new Cars tent knowing that by morning,  he would no longer be 3 anymore....