Max & Ruby inspired party: Part III
Saturday morning I made few cake toppers to add to the flower pots I use for decoration.
Also, I printed out few coloring pages, Max & Ruby stickers on plain paper to use for party hats that also I finished Saturday morning. Everyone can color a page or make a party hat or mask of Max or Ruby. For ladies in the picture below are all sisters. Actually, they have one more sister and 4 brothers!
I asked a friend to make Max & Ruby and Helmī was so happy to see Max coming through the door. Everyone else wasn’t that important anymore. Thank you, Lauma for making Max & Ruby and for painting girl’s faces!
And of course, there were food and cakes…. and games.
And most valuable for me – pictures where we all are together!
And in the picture below post-soviet-union women (my mom with the black & white dress and Ilga, Janis godmother) are taking shots of strong alcohol. Alchocol was forbidden in our house & kids parties. Don’t know how it showed up this time, but I didn’t mind. This is how Latvians celebrated in soviet union time and the old habits die hard ;).
The difference from other countries – we are celebrating all together, doesn’t matter if it’s kid’s party or grownups! There is no such thing as celebrating a birthday without mom or grandmother. All invited!
At the end, there were 26 happy faces & 4 cakes! Thank you all for coming!!!
Ilze
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Wonderful post, wonderful pictures, clearly a wonderful party. Some interesting insights into Latvian life too. Super idea that children’s parties become family parties. I especially like the picture of you with Janis and the girls. Really well done and no doubt worth all the hard work.
Thank you! Now I try my best to share all the recipes! 🙂 I need them to be in blog for me, in case I want to make them again. My honey cake recipe is the best! Requires lots of honey :)!
Can’t wait. We brought 5 litres of acacia honey back from Romania; is that “plenty” enough for your cake? 😋In fact it’s for a ‘complimentary medicine’ Petronela insists I take every morning – half a grated lemon with a teaspoon of honey. It’s delicious so I don’t need much persuading.
Add garlic and try that 🙂 It’s not delicious anymore but it’s medicine we need here in flu season. You will need ~600 grams for big honey cake. Have you ever tried a honey cake?
We eat a lot of garlic, something else we brought back from Romania as it has a stronger taste than that we can buy here. Now I get an innoculation again ‘flu because of my other health problems but before that it never caused me a problem.
Our Latvian garlic is stronger than the on in stores. It comes from chia and it’s not the half as good as local! I guess the same is all around the Europe!
Oh, it looks like she had a great time!!! I’ve always invited my parents to my sons birthday parties, I think they should be there.
Did the kids like pin the tail on max? 😂
Thank you! Thay really enjoyed it! They asked more. And the Max is still on the fridge!
I’m so glad your party turned out so well!
Thank you! I’m happy I’m not dead at the end. Sometimes when I forget to think about myself I end up with a big headache!
Oh ILZE!!!! What an AMAZING Party! And I LOVE LOVE LOVE the family photos! You are such a beautiful family!!!! And you are such a great momma!!! <3
… (blushed)! Thank you! I love your “extended family” Christmas photos! The whole thing! I need to start something like that…. I feel the need!
Love and be Loved! <3
Yup! Love and be loved!
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PS. No, I never tried a honey cake so am waiting for your recipe. I’d have to scale it down though – maybe 300g honey!
Yup… In one 24 cm round cake you will need 320 grams honey.
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