My sister Melinda and I have always had to share our birthday month. I never had a problem with it becuase mine came first on the 17th and I was always too young to understand that my birthday was on pay day. Mel's birthday was the following week on the 24th so she was in that 2nd week of the pay period. LOL i'm sure you can see why Mel was always bitter! BUT as we got older we learned to enjoy celebrating together. Read More....

This past weekend we had Madelyn's 4th birthday party. Dora is yesterday's news and she is now into Princess and Barbies. I wasnt for sure what to do for her goody bags besides glue a big princess face to the front of a paper bag. I saw some on Etsy that were cute and if I couldn't think of anything else that was going to be my choice. WELL, I am now hooked to Pinterest and saw a cute idea for tea cups out of ice cream cones!!!!! Read More....

So today is my little monsters 4th birthday. I have been just fine with her other 3 birthday's but this one brought tears to my eyes. It is the first time I can see her "big girl" personality really starting to come out. She is 4 going on 14! Dont want to compare her to an adult just a teen :) Since her birthday landed during the week I decided to make treats for her class. I was talking about birthday parties at school with a mom at gymnastics and she put a guilt trip on me thinking about hoRead More....

This past weekend Jacob's cousin had her daughter's first birthday party. OMG this was hands down a great party. As a mom that has to make everything for my kids, I have to give Samantha so much props! She did a great job! She thought about every detail, put decorations on every part of the house, made it extra special for the kids......I meRead More....

I was asked to make some sports themed goody bags for a 9 year old boy. This is VERY much out of my comfort zone. For one, I dont deal much with making anything for boys, secondly, its for a 9 year old boy so I had to make sure they weren't too kiddy. I narrowed the sports theme down to a basketball theme with boys colors. I used basketball scrap book paper for the wording, some netting I found in the crochet aisle and I used the handle of the bag for the basketball rim. Here is what I came up wRead More....

We had an early birthday party for Nevaeh this year. She will be 10 next week!!! The past 2 years she has not wanted a kiddy themed birthday. Remember last years birthday? Her theme was colors, this year her theme was hippie. She has been on this hippie kick going on more than 2 years. Her wRead More....

This past weekend we went to Jacob's friends son's 1st birthday party. It's an unwritten rule that mothers have to go all out for their child's first birthday. Then you have not so big parties till they are about 5 of 6 and actually realize what is going on. I had to blog about this party because they did so many cute Yo Gabba Gabba decorations and special touches. This was my first time to meet Jacob's friend and his wifes family so I didnt want them to wonder who is that girl taking picturesRead More....

Yesterday was my niece Natalia's 7th birthday :) I told my sister "Tal" better be glad I am squeezing a project in the middle of my wedding planning but her response was "well you planned your wedding right next to her birthday!" LOL so I made her a fun gift. Tal reminds me a lot of me! She is the middle child and VERY much has middle child syndrome. Heck she even has my brain....we use the right side. My sister is always telling me how much Tal is just like me when I was her age. Anyhoo, I wRead More....

My birthday day is on St. Patty's day every year :) I have definitely started to enjoy it more as I got older and learned about all the fun St. Patty's day festivities! This  year Jacob made all my family dinner and we just had a small party at my house. Nothing too big because it was on a Thursday and we all know how school nights are.....well those of us with kids. This year I got so many presents.....normally as adults we may get one or two. Jacob did so well!!!! I dont think he is listenRead More....

My little Madelyn turned 3 yesterday. Its so hard to believe 3 years have FLOWN by! She is 3 going on 25!!!!! I decided this year I was NOT going to have a party at my house becuase I didn't want to deal with the pre cleaning, decorating, food, entertaining THEN still have to clean up and not to mention having to cram left overs in the fridge. We decided to have it at Chucky Cheese BUT not on the weekend when Read More....