NYE and New Years Day

NYE:

Started out with putting up our decoration.

Then got a Pedi

The toes are ready for labor! LOL

Fixed up my little chalkboard

 * LOADED UP MY CAR AND DROPPED OFF DONATIONS TO GOODWILL*

Went to party at the retirement home with Da

The retirement home was POPPIN'! 

Came home to do our activities I had planned
and some POP-ITS!

Fixed up my larger chalkboard to be ready for the new year.

 FIRST DAY OF 2014:

Took a whole family trip out to Burfoot park to play at the "BEACH"
No rain, just lots of fog and a sneaky pup ZIG!

I love where we live.

Ry's BIRTHDAY Weekend Wrap Up!

This weekend was NUTS! Ok, only like 4 hours of complete craziness but it was pretty crazy.

Friday was spent prepping food for Ry's party and making the last of the decorations. I think this post will mostly be photos.

I made these adorable gift boxes I found HERE. 

Once Finished and filled with chocolate gold coins and a sticker mustache they were ready to go!

I made your average vegetable tray and printed up my own food sings, I think made it even cuter. 

I bought a ton of sliced Tillamook at the grocery store and used a star cookie cutter to make Star Power Cheese for the crackers. 

Chocolate mustaches were easy to do, but TIME CONSUMING! I found the mold at my local craft store and melting chocolate. I wrapped them all because I figured people would want to take them with rather than eat them then and there. I was right. They were tempting me last night but apparently my dog thought he would save me the trouble and eat them all himself. He's fine. Ryder's crushed.

I bought cheese balls at the store and printed the name tag for them.

I forgot to take a picture of the cupcakes when they were all pretty up on the stand at the party,
but here are the 1 UP and Power Up cupcakes we had made. 

I printed off letters from MS Word  and cut them out with an exacto knife, also found a brick pattern and used that as the background, then your average Mario and Luigi for the middle. The Hands on Children's Museum made me use painters tape hence the blue. :/ BOOOO!

$6 spent on balloons. We bought 6 balloons and used electrical tape for the eyes. Thank you pinterest!

My sweet husband had a blast snapping pics while I was still running around like mad getting things ready. Who am I kidding? Things were done and I was still running around like mad, 7 months pregnant and birthday party was EXHAUSTING!

We found time towards the end we found time for a quick family picture. I can't believe our baby boy is 4 and about to be a big brother! 

After the party Ryder was so ready to play! Off he went.

We played everything!

I may have needed a rest after the party, the dentist chair is so comfortable. 

This is probably one of my favorite places for imaginary play in our area. It's amazing!

After all was said and done, or I guess I mean after I said I was done, we headed home and even got to take an extra special present home... Ryder's cousin! :)

It was exhausting and fun, the venue was fun but an hour and a half feels so rushed for a party. You have to really get into the food, cake, gifts and let them go. I had brought Super Mario Coloring sheets I found online and printed myself to the party for kids to entertain themselves. I knew it would be hard but it worked out so perfectly, we jumped into cake then presents then had 15 minutes for clean up and to shove everyone out the door. My amazing friend Chana & Gentry helped with set up and clean up and I was so fortunate to have ANOTHER awesome friend Alana take some pictures for me! It was an overall success.

Oh and while trying to figure out what to wear I tried on every dress I own and...

No, this dress did not make it out of the house on my body... that would be as ridiculous as wearing the wonder woman costume out.



This is me wearing it however pre-pregnancy last summer at a friends wedding. The Bride is in the middle, as if you couldn't tell. GORGEOUS GENTRY!