After my last post, I asked some of my facebook friends what they thought about character based kids parties and we discussed a bit. One said that while she likes general themes because they allow you to be more creative, that kids want characters. She added “ So...
I’ve been doing a bunch of looking around on the Internet trying to get inspiration for where I want to head with My Lil’ Guy. I’ve looked at party blogs and home decor blogs to get ideas on current trends and what people want. One thing I have...
Around the time of my youngest birthday party (way back in November), I started to get it in my head that I needed to be better about blogging more often. I’m pretty sure I read it some where and started to get concerned that I wasn’t blogging enough...
After considering a couple other cute themes, my sister-in-law and I decided on a Veggie Tales theme for our boys’ 2nd birthday party. The boys are only two days apart so a joint party just makes sense and Bob and Larry gave us a pair of characters to...
We welcomed a second little boy into our family and began a new chapter in our life.
One year ago, this baby boy was up and running, and climbing… and I was realizing that just because I had already had one baby, didn’t mean I was prepared for everything...
Earlier this month I decided to make my hubby something special for his birthday. With his birthday so close to Halloween and with my little boys’ birthdays on either side of it, I’m always focused on their party stuff, costumes, etc and sometimes...
Finally getting a chance to share some pictures. Halloween was stretched out over a few days for us. I did manage to get the boy’s costumes done in time. Although each time they put them on, I did some modifications which ended with me stapling Vader’s...
This year I decided to try to make my little guys’ costumes. While sewing is not my strongest ability, I figured I could come up with something and better to try it now when they are little and can’t fight back. Sir Q wanted to be Darth Vader,...
This year we are going with a Star Wars theme for the boys costumes and Sir Q got a Darth Vader helmet as a birthday/costume gift from his Grandpa. We have had quite a bit of fun playing with his new toy and by we, I mean me and the hubby. The helmet is actually...
Well the weather here can’t seem to decide if it’s fall or not. One day it’s crisp and cool and the next day we are back to t-shirt weather. But I’m really ready for fall so I just choose to not pay attention to the weather man. So in my...