Daria's Birthday!

The other day Daria turned eight years old and we decided to throw an extra special birthday party for her. We picked a topic..............Fairyland!!! Its original!!!! (note from Katya, who always dreads and avoids having to wear dresses or skirts or makeup or anything girlie:"It's not original! It's Marie Claireish!" Nevertheless, Fairyland it was, and so, with half the home gone on a faithtrip and almost no money, we set about trying to improvise and use our creativity to make it special.
The day before the party was spent with the girls making decorations that would give our house the fairy ambience. So I put them to work cutting out paper flowers and butterflies while I strained myself to make fairy wings for them all out of colored paper and glitter.
I had to constantly stress to them how important it was for them not to compare, but i must say I had some trouble with the birthday girl who changed her mind a few times about the type of wings she wanted, fretting that the purple wings she had picked, would not match with the dress she was planning on wearing s they would have to be pink. Thankfully, blessed Bia, accustomed by now to younger sisters, was willing to change wings in order to please the precious little birthday sister. Bless her! She helped me so much!
So then the other dillema was birthday cake. With hardly any money in the house for expensive or trendy ingredients we were at conflict what to do. Well, I thought after the usual chocolate recipe with almost no icing was suggested. How about we make the "pineapple upside-down cake"?............with apples. (available recipe in the Activity Book, if u have one.........we did not. And so I called up my mom and had her read the recipe in her german, step-by-step way to me. (Note: this was my second favorite cake with peaches and whipped cream and dulce de leche of course that my mom would make for my birthday before she discovered the traditional chocolate mayonaise cake..........also available in Activity Book. Dont miss it!)
So, we scrounged up some pesos to buy a little whipped cream, and butter and a few other ingredients (it wouldve been nice to have dulce de leche and canned peaches but oh well!). And we made the cake!
It took a few fear-instilling, thought-provoking signs that reffered to my unpleasant "german wrath" to keep the cake from being entirely mutilated overnight by hungry stalkers.
The next morning was spent prepping up the girls with their wings and clothes and makeup and hairdos, and flower crown (once again it was hard to keep them from comparing over the flowers i used for each one! Sigh!)
They had a wonderfull time with the visiting children, and had a fun lunch at the nearby MacDonals (bless you Vera for provisioning it!) .
Anyway, thought Id share some of the pics of this occasion! So purty my little fairies!!!!