MTM with our cousin!

On Monday my sister Sherryberry and my niece Laneybug came over to help me make more aprons. Good thing too because I have been fighting with my sewing machine and needed some help, as it turned out, I fought with her sewing machine too. So, I'm starting to wonder if it's just me... hmmm, no it's gotta be the machines! hahaha.

Anyway, Laneybug kept my kiddos GREAT company while the grown ups were busy. They even got to have a yummy Muffin Tin Monday floor picnic together while watching a movie.

They ate ham, cheese, roll, pears, coleslaw, and airheads that Laneybug bought with her own money to share with her cousins. Isn't she sweet?

Thank GOODNESS, we got ALL 20 aprons completed! Lyssy is wearing her very special Birthday Girl apron, it is the only one that got pockets and is glittery!

Each of the other aprons have doubles or triples that look like them. Laneybug decided that she wanted this one with hearts all over it.

I think AB has a BEAUTIFUL smile!

This is one of my favorite fabrics! I think I just love the brightness of it because we bought the same design in blue and pink and I didn't like it at all.

Laneybug has to pose for EVERY single picture! I think this fabric is super cute on, but it feels super thin.

Of course, we will have a few boys in attendance so we had to make a few boy aprons. Aidman insisted that I make a Yankees apron for him, he is OBSESSED!

This fabric would make a cute shirt!

Such a handsome guy!

Sewing Aprons

This week my sister SherryBerry came over and helped me to start making aprons for Lyssy's upcoming Birthday Party (it's an In The Kitchen/Cooking theme at my work). We have to make 20 aprons!! On this day we figured out a pattern, cut all 20 aprons, and sewed 8 of them, NOT too shabby!

Of course the kiddos had to see what was going on! Plus they love spending time with Aunt SherryBerry, who we don't get to see as often as we'd like since she lives an hour and a half away.

It was a fun morning together and we made some stinkin cute aprons!

I have a sewing machine, but am not great at it, I can manage a pretty straight line though. SherryBerry just got her sewing machine this Christmas and has been having a GREAT time learing how to use it, so she was pretty excited to help me with this project!

Super Mario Cart Party Decor

Today we had Aidman, EE, and EP's GIANT birthday party. I have several friends who all invite the same group of friends (plus family members) to our birthday parties. Instead of having 3 different parties to take up 3 weekends, we decided to combine them and just have one really big blowout! The boys all had their birthdays in the same week (Aidman's is this Tues) and turn 5, 5, and 6. They all like Mario so we decided to have a Mario Cart party.

We made a great obstacle course around the perimeter of the yard. Above is the finish line.

We got palates for the kids to run on. They really liked this.

There were cones to run around.

Pools to wade through or run around.

Pool noodles (held up by chop sticks) with a sprinkler at the end to run through.

Turtle shell (sand box lids) to step over.

A swinging tire swing to run around. The three boxes standing are stations where water squirters and water balloons were set up for nonracers to throw and squirt at the kids.

A mushroom farm to run around. It's a punching bag with a cardboard shaped like a mushroom on top.

Outside of the obstacle course, we also had a big inflatable slide, a trampoline, sand box filled with coins to find, and a swing set to play on. Needless to say, there was TONS for the kids to do!

We decorated the whole yard with flags/pendants and I made some saying Happy Birthday Aidman, EE, and EP.

I made these really CUTE piranha plant center pieces.

We found these great Mario Cart window decals.

Oh and so that they would have carts to race in, we made these GREAT banana box race cars. We even painted them to look like the actual characters cars.


It was a wonderful party!! I'll post pictures of the actual party fun later.

Tea Party Fun

Here is all the FUN things we did at Pryssy Lyssy's Tea Party!

Of course we had tea, muffins, finger sandwiches, sconces, fruit, and CAKE!

We decorated goodie bags and filled them with fun things.

We made our own bead necklaces!

And we had a dress up station! My sister made these CUTE little tutus, and I borrowed a bunch of outfits from a local dance studio that my friend works at, and I got a bunch of stuff at the Dollar Tree.

Needless to say, the kiddos had a GREAT time with all the fun activities.

Tea Party Decor

I LOVE planning fun parties for my kiddos. Today was Prissy Lyssys's 3rd Birthday and we had a tea party. It was ALOT of fun to plan and decorate for! I am super TIRED now, but it was well worth it!!

Here is a canopy to transform our backyard into a tea garden.

I went ahead and had the tables ready for the kiddos. It was set just like any fancy tea house, except for the fact that we used paper plates.

I made these CUTE tissue paper flowers for the centerpieces.

I must say that I impressed myself with the cuteness of this! I really did LOVE it and hope everyone else did too! And aside from my "Grown Up" fit (like the one a 3 year old would throw) this morning when the wind kept knocking down my canopy, the day was wonderful (thank God that Eric figured out a better way to do the canopys and the wind cooperated for the party!).

PaRtY Planning!!

How do I get myself into these CrAzY parties?? I swear, everytime I go to throw one of my kiddos a party it turns into this crazy over done thing. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE doing and planning it all, which is why it ends up this way. I get too excited while my kids could care less!!

Prissy Lyssy's 3rd birthday is in 2 weeks. She has requested a tea party. I actually tried to get her to change the theme so that it would easily accomidate more people but she wasn't having that. So a GIANT tea party it is!!

Here are my plans... Kiddie tables set up in the back yard. Pink and Purple color scheme (Prissy Lyssy's request). I giant canopy over the tables. Quilts hung on the clothes line to act as a dressing room for ALL the dress up clothes and hats. Tissue paper flowers as the centerpieces. Yummy food set up. Cute tea cups for each child. And MUCH MUCH more!!

I will update with pictures after the party.