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We hosted 45 of our friends and family at our house for Ava’s fourth birthday party this weekend. We selected an Alice in Wonderland theme, which my friend Lori incorporated into the invitations we sent out several weeks ago.

Thanks to the help of many, many people (photographic evidence coming soon), we had a great time. Even Alice approved. Laura took this photo–and many others–that she’s posted over on the The House On Hudson.  Doug will also have photos up on his site as well.

I’ll post more photos of the party preparation and the party itself in the coming days. Thanks, everyone!

We’re in the midst of preparations for Ava’s fourth birthday party. The kid has more friends than I do, plus our family will be in attendance–it’s going to be quite the bash.

She selected an Alice in Wonderland theme, so we’re in the process of devising games, decorations and treat bags with that in mind. We decided to focus on the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, so we’re planning tiny little cucumber sandwiches, strawberries with lime curd and other tea time favorites for lunch.

I’m going to try a fondant cake for the first time–I expect this will be good blog fodder. I’m using the Mad Hatter design, which has three very uneven layers and looks like it just finished a rousing spin on a merry-go-round. The nice thing about fondant is you can make the cake a couple of days in advance and it keeps it very fresh. The only downside is that it tastes like a pencil eraser. Thankfully my mom is making an angel food cake, too.

Photos coming soon!