Focht Family Blog

One of the big reasons we decided to visit New York was so that we could celebrate Samantha’s and Timmy’s birthdays with my in-laws and Nathan’s older sister and our niece. Nathan’s younger sister and her friend came to visit at the same time so we had a huge birthday party. Since we celebrated Josh’s half birthday this year we decided to add him to the mix as well. I arranged for us to go to a place called Young Chef Academy where everyone learned how to make pizza dough and then we all made our own pizzas. Then we decorated cupcakes. I wanted to find something that Josh would enjoy but that wouldn’t be boring for Samantha and Alex. Even the adults enjoyed the night.

Here is a picture of Samantha showing off her goodies from her bag. I bought all of the kids a personalized apron, a chef’s hat, an oven mitt, a spatula, a rolling pin, and a pizza cutter…

Here is a picture of our niece Alex and her dad Jim…

And all of the kids sitting down before we got started…

Here is Joshua helping to mix the dough…

Here is a picture of everyone that I could get in one shot…

Here is a picture of the biggest “kid” rolling out his pizza…

Samantha and Alex working on their masterpieces…

And the bigger kids finishing their pizzas…

Another picture of the kids while their pizzas were baking…

Now for the cupcakes…. I took a picture of each of the kids with their cupcakes that they frosted themselves…