This past Thursday Rascal turned 11 years old! For this birthday, having just finished reading (and listening to) The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, he asked if we could have a Hobbit themed birthday! It was so much fun (even if I did spend too much time in the kitchen!) and I've been so excited to share the pictures with you all. The banner was inspired by Charlotte's lovely Lord of the Rings Banner! In fact, after hearing how slightly overwhelmed I was on Tuesday night (while talking to her during the girls Irish Dance class before going shopping) she kindly whipped up a document and emailed it to me! All I had to do was print it on parchment paper, tear the edges and glue the letters onto some 8"x5.5" black card stock! Thank you dear friend, you are the BEST! You can download the banner document here. I also created a door sign using a "Party Business" font I downloaded online. You can download that document here. We started the day with a quick trip to town for a Birthday Coffee Drink and found some beautiful golden rings while we were at the store to bring back for 2nd Breakfast!
We spent some of the afternoon playing The Hobbit Boardgame! As an extra snack, while I finished making dinner, I gave the kids baggies of Mountain Trail Mix and sent them outside to find their own adventure. As I was thinking about what to do with the leftover Green Sugar Sheet and Sixlets from the birthday cake, I decided to try and make Hobbit Hole Cookies (inspired by these) using the leftover Fudge Stripes from this year's Candlemas Cookie Candles with Drip Plates! I used my circle hole punch to cut the sugar sheet and added a yellow Sixlets in the center with a dab of yellow sparkle gel. I thought that they turned out so cute, and they only took a few minutes to make! “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ~ On the Menu ~ "Some called for ale, and some for porter, and one for coffee, and all of them for cakes; so the hobbit was kept very busy for a while." "He was blowing the most enormous smoke-rings, and wherever he told one to go, it went- up the chimney, or behind the clock on the mantlepiece, or under the table, or round and round the ceiling;
but wherever it went it was not quick enough to escape Gandalf." "Quite a merry gathering! I hope there is something left for the late-comers to eat and drink!" "The dwarves ate and ate, and talked and talked, and time got on. At last they pushed their chairs back and Bilbo made a move to collect the plates and glasses. "I suppose you will all stay to supper for cake?" he said in his politest unpressing tones. "Of course!" said Thorin. We shan't get through the business till late, and we must have some music first. Now to clear up!" "Now for some music!" said Thorin. "Bring out the instruments!" We wrapped his birthday gifts in brown paper, tied with string, and attached gift tags and a beautiful new Hobbit Bookmark hand painted and ordered from The Fig and Thimble! (NOTE: The wonderful dwarf hoods the children are wearing were also all made by The Fig and Thimble!) Gifts from Twinkle Toes, Chiquita (and Snuggles gift bag in the back), and Captain The older children also wrapped up gifts for their brother!
Twinkle Toes choose a couple mini-figures from Series 9 (and was very happy to discover that one of them was the Forest Maiden with a bow... Yep, Mom is getting good at "guessing" what's inside the packages! lol), Chiquita wrapped up the PB&J Candy Bar that the tooth fairy had recently left under her pillow (inside a little hobbit hole box she decorated!), Snuggles wrapped up some of his coins and we picked up some trail mix when we were at the store to add, and Captain did many extra little jobs and chores to save for a little lego set (the one that comes with Samwise Gamgee) for his brother. Rascal's other gifts include the next four books in the Tales of the RAF series (since he enjoyed the first book which he received in his Christmas stocking so much), The Hobbit Lego Game, Hobbit Attack of the Wargs Legos, Lego Empire State Building, and a World War II Discovery Kit. The birthday boy loved his cake and added the finishing touches just before we sang Happy Birthday!
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