Mindy's Surprise Party

Well the last three weeks have been soooo busy! Working on so many projects, and events. I will get into the projects later, first the events. Alex and I conspired for a couple months to surprise Mindy for her birthday. It turned out very awesome. Alex kept her occupied all day and Autumn came over and helped me set up and cook. Alex wanted a Luau theme, and decided to do pulled pork sandwhiches and Pina Coladas. I made chocolate and Coconut cupcakes, since coconut is Mindy's favorite. Here is the night in pictures.

The cupcake centerpiece

Day lillies from our yard
Up close with the Chocolate cupcake

Up close of the coconut

The "message in a bottle" table. I cut pieces of paper and left pens out and had every guest write a message to the birthday girl and then put it in the "bottle" (or vase) so she had a surprise to look at later.

SURPRISE!

Snots.. or Autumn enjoying the party

Leebie and Malynn... I can never get a picture of both of them smiling.... LOL

Jeff, Casey and Lexa

Mindy with Candy and Erin

Mindy and the "amazons" these ladies are so tall

Blowing out her candles

The happy couple

I know my eyes are closed.....

Mother and daughter

A typical Jeff face... LOL

Well all in all it was a great night. Erin and Candy brought some stuff to do glitter toes and Mindy, Echo, Autumn and I all got our toes done. Autumn was trying to take my old polish off becuase I couldn't reach, you should have seen the two full prego girls huffing and puffing trying to get the polish off. It was pretty funny. More events to come...stay tuned....

4 Day Weekend...

First off I have to share a funny story. So Chris who is extremely hard on phones, no idea how he tears them up soo bad. Anyways his old phone was on its last licks of life and we can't afford a new one right now. Well in all my yardsale stuff I have a ton of old phones to sell well I grabbed my old motorolla pebble out its still in great shape, charged it up and we put his sim card in it. Well I used this phone like 4 or 5 years ago.. so Chris is at work with all these important people and I text him. He texts back whoa holy crap that was embarrassing. Apparently the text tone was still set as Sexy back by Justin Timberlake. I don't care who you are that was just way to funny. And of course I can see him freaking out trying to shut it up. Way too funny to not share.

Well back to work back to work. 4 day weekends always seem to fly by so fast. We had a jam packed weekened though. I was actually pretty lazy on Friday, I was so exhausted. Think I am still recouperating from when I was sick. Saturday was my amazing husband 30th birthday. I spent most of the day doing laundry and folding and marking clothes for our yardsale this next weekend. Then I baked Chris red, white and blue cupcakes. He also requested broccoli salad so I made that as well and we went over to his sisters for dinner.

It was a way fun evening at his sisters. I was kinda relieved she offered to host, I have been a little burnt out lately and it was nice to relax. Anne made the most amazing Cuban sandwhiches and they had this mouthwatering sauce. So need to get that recipe it was so good, Chris and I have been talking about all the things it would taste good on for the last few days. We also had watermelon, love watermelon. Then Chris made homemade chocolate chip ice cream, and his mom made homemade straberry and Vanilla. We got these amazing Cuisinart ice cream makers from Judy for Christmas and We make so much ice cream now. its so much cheaper than buying it and it's fresh and delicious. After dinner we all chatted and took a family picture. I got some fun pictures of Chris playing with Anne, his brothers and Hannah and Isaac. I used my coolpix camera though so the action shots are blurry. I didn't feel like hauling the big camera though. We also did fireworks With Anne, Darrin, Hannah, Isaac and Jonny. That was nice. That was the only night we did fireworks. Though from about the first through last night I felt like I was in a war zone. Fireworks were so loud this year.

Sunday we were really productive. We cleaned out the garage and got all our boxes we had stashed in thier marked for the yardsale. I got eaten alive by mosquitos. Plus we were getting dive bombed by June bugs... creepy little buggers... ick.

On Monday Chris had this amazing idea to built a little shelf for our dresser. We wanted to put the playstation in our bedroom so we could have Netflix in there, but you can't put anything on top of it becuase of the shape. We also wanted our TV a little higher up. We together we measured and sawed the pices for our little stand, put it together and I primed he painted. It turned out pretty good. You can see it here

Birthday boy

this picture was strictly for the goofy look on Darin's face. Too Funny!!


Red, White and blue cupcakes.

Baby bump 19 weeks. Though I look huge, I have only gained 2 lbs.

Boys playing

Just caught a glimpse of thier childhood. Matt is on the other end pitching.

Always coaching

Louee turns 1!

So our kitten Louee is now one, he has grown so fast. We had a birthday party for him. I know right, before you judge, I did it for Chris and I's niece and nephew. Hannah LOVES my cats. She knows everything there is to know about them, I mean everything. She could tell you where I found each of them, why Pugslee is declawed and Dru and Louee aren't. She is a sponge, she absorbs. So, Darren and Anne were going out for their anniversary the week of Louee's birthday and we were watching them. I thought what would be more fun for kids that love cats, than a birthday party? Except that I don't really know what you should do for a cat birthday party, its not like they can play games with you... pin the tail on the dog??? hmm...oh wait he is a dog... or at least he thinks he is.

So I decided to make Louee his own party hat and then make individualized ones for Hannah and Isaac. Yea trying to take pictures of Louee with a party hat on was hilarious, I walked away laughing and bleeding. He's not a fan of hats. Then I made mini cupcakes that were the perfect Hannah and Issac size. Then I saw these tissue paper pom poms on Martha Stewart, and decided to go for it, since I had the urge to make them, but had no idea what the occasion would be.. now I had one, a silly one but hey.

So Chris made homemade pizza dough and let the kids make their very own homemade pizza. We then lit some candles on the cupcakes, and the kids blew them out. We sang to Louee.. that was hilarious, he was so freaked out. Chris was holding him and he looked like he wanted to climb him and hide on the ceiling. Then we had mini cupcakes... the kids fed the cats kitty treats, since they can't have cake. All in all it was very silly but a lot of fun. Chris and I bought them coloring books, crayons, and doodle books for them to have at our house cause they love to color and draw. So Hannah and I colored. Then we watched about 3 kids movies. We could not get them to go to sleep. Chris however had no problems.

But my most favorite moment of the night was when Hannah was playing air guitar to Kiss’s “I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night”. The girl can Rock!

He does love me

my pom-poms

homemade party hats

Singing to Louee

In their Home-made party hats
Chris showing them how to roll their dough for their pizzas
Hannah & Issac sized cupcakes
Them coloring

Margie's Birthday in Idaho

For Margie's Birthday that was March 3, we went to Idaho to celebrate with her and went shopping in Twin Falls. I made her a Garfield cake. I was in kind of a hurry and my decorator had broke.. so it's not the best cake i have ever decorated but it worked.

Margie blowing out her candles

The Garfield cake