Surprise Party!

Yesterday I mentioned celebrating the hubsters birthday (which is tomorrow!). Well, I had a surprise golf theme party for him! He was expecting a meal I was making for just the two of us, and thanks to the help of some tricky neighbors he got a party!

party spread

28th hole(how old he is - choc.covered oreos

Arnold Palmer (sweet tea, lemonade, firefly vodka) & Sweet "Tee"

Practice Your "Chipping" (chips, salsa, & queso)

Sand Trap- cupcakes with crushed butterfinger cookies

Hole Markers - choc covered pretzels ~ in the back are Tiger (Woods) Prawns

Water Hazard - blue jello and coconut rum

Bucket of (Meat) Balls - see bottom of post for recipe

His "I'm surprised" smile, and my "OMG I only had one hour to lay all this out and make most of the food" smile. It was fantastic and we had a great time!

Now for the easiest meatball recipe, and everyone seemed to really like them!
1 can Smuckers Grape Jelly
1 can Hormel No Bean Chili
Frozen Bag of Mini-Meatballs (mine was a 60 count bag)

Turn crockpot on high and dump in jelly and chili, stirring occasionally, until the grape jelly and chili kind of dissolve into each other. Dump in the meatballs and cook on high for 2 hours, and low heat for 1, then they're done and delicious!

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Baby Cakes

I made my first attempt at a diaper cake today for my husbands' best friends' wife (that's not a long description or anything)! It's not perfect but I think it's pretty good for a first try! The best thing was I was able to complete it in just about an hour while the baby I watch was napping!

Supplies:

• 42 Size 2 diaper ($8)
• 2 empty graduate cheese puff containers (already had those on hand thanks to baby mentioned before, but if not, they're about the size of a full toilet paper roll)
• 2 Pacifiers ($1)
• Ribbon ($2.50, still have some left over)
• Fabric glue ($2.50, still have TONS left)
• Silk Flowers ($1)
• Johnson's Travel Pack, included travel size baby shampoo, body wash, lotion, baby powder, and diaper rash cream ($2.50)
• Stuffed Animal ($1)
• Pizza Pan ($1)
• Baby Blanket ($1)
• Rubber Bands ($1)

The pizza pan was for a sturdy base for the cake, and I wrapped the baby blanket around it to cover it. It's a 3 tier cake, the bottom using about 20 diapers (rolled up and secured individually with rubber bands), wrapped around the cheese puff containers to create/hold the shape. I think maybe next time I would use actual gifts for the center too, but I didn't have any on hand and I wanted to make the cake now!!! The top tier is 7 diapers so that means the center tier must be 15 diapers. I then played around with the flowers and gifts until I liked the way it looked. TAH-DAH...

Not too shabby if I do say so myself, especially for only about $20! I also have a 31 Bags thermal tote with the baby's initial monogramed on it (I thought it could be used as a diaper bag, or be placed in a diaper bag with ice pack to keep formula and food cold) and a pack of diaper wipes to go along with it, but they overpower the cake so I'll just wrap those seperately I think. So what do you think? Anything you can think of to make it better or tips you more experienced diaper cakers out there have?