Wonderland Party!!!

Our little Smooshy turned 5 the other day, not sure how it has been 5 years, but we did a Wonderland Lunch for her party over the weekend. Girly loves Alice in Wonderland, but we didn't want her party to be too Alice inspired, and absolutely not too Disney inspired.

We only had a few basic decorations

We had a couple things for the girls to do.

Mome Wrath Races! We gave each girl a glitter pompom and a straw and they

 blew their little Mome Wraths across the room. Pretty cute girls!

We also decorated some little pots, I didn't get any pictures of that though. I just painted the little terra cotta pots pink, green and aqua. We had a few different types of stickers and gems for them to add to their pots.

And we played pin the tail on Mr. Rabbit

Got a few table shots as people were arriving, I was running just a hour or two  little behind!

I tried to get as many of the characters represented without it being too obvious or printed characters. 

Mr. Rabbit tails. I wanted to use hostess snowballs but Carsyn doesn't like coconut

 ( don't know what's wrong with her!)

The Bread and Butterflies are so cute in the movie, this was as close as we could get!

The Mad Hatter, helping hold some of the singing flowers and little flamingo in there, pretty hidden

The Cheshire Cat 

The Playing Cards

The Mushroom, and shrinking/growing cookies 

Drinks

some chocolate keys

Her cake. I didn't make it, and I didn't love it. I asked for toadstools and we got these lol. Oh well, lesson learned! Tasted fantastic!

Happy Birthday to our little Carsyn!

Once I have napped for a couple days (did I mention we had 2 birthday parties over the weekend?!) I will get to all the other fluff I wanted to do, and all the stuff I didn't take pictures of!

And a Baseball themed lunch party for our big 7 year old to share!  For now though I have got to get ready for the week and clean house!

Peanut Butter Day!!

Is January 24th, just a few days away. Luckily pb isn't too hard to incorporate into our day. I'm sure we will have PBnJ's for lunch and maybe I will make some PB cookies!

Or maybe some PB fudge!

But other than that I am not planning too much!
If I have to stop at the grocery store I might let the kids make a small container of the DIY peanut butter, they would probably like that!
Are y'all planning anything for National Peanut Butter Day?

Organizing Friday!

I am not really organizing anything today but I am making plans on how to fill our new Built Ins!! They aren't quite done yet but they will sure give us a TON of storage!

There are shelves for the under cabinets and it will have doors, so I think we can move the board games and stuff to one of these, the kids will like that they can reach them a little better that way!

And I will probably keep our blankets and extra throw pillows in there too! 

The other side of the room just has 2 club chairs, but I think I am going to try to get hubby to build a mantle, not a fireplace, just a mantle since the other mantle has a different TV on it and it is lower and I can't really put much on the mantle or it blocks the TV,

January 23rd is National PIE Day!

YUM! Not only are pies tasty but they are so charming and simple, considering most aren't too many ingredients. They are cute and always make me feel giggly. I think anything with a pie on it is special!

The American Pie Council had this on their site, I thought it was cute!

"Why is National Pie Day celebrated on Jan. 23 or 1/23? 

Because celebrating the wholesome goodness of pie is as easy as 1-2-3."   

And here is some suggestions they have for celebrating

Other ways to celebration National Pie Day:

• Share the ultimate "comfort food" by giving the gift of pie to a local "hometown hero". Stop by your local police or fire department and let these local heros know that you appreciate all they do for your community.
• If pie making is not in your schedule, stop by your favorite pie shop or grocery store and bring home a gift of love and joy for the whole family. The coldest of January days will be warmed by a special pie dessert.
• Indulge your co-workers with a gift of pie.
• Reach out to new neighbors that you might not have met yet - it says you're thoughtful. Stay awhile to get to know each other and fill them in about the neighborhood.
• Say thank you with a pie. Has someone done a special favor for you? Acknowledge the favor with the gift of pie.
• Spend time with you children and make a pie together. You'll make great memories and your children will be so proud to serve the pie for dessert.

All of those sound like great ideas! Here are some things we are thinking of doing.

I made a hair clippy for my little miss a couple years ago.

 Smoosh will for sure be wearing it that day!

seriously one of my faves! 

And pie is so easy! You could do a breakfast pie, lunch pie, dinner pie and snack and dessert pies if you reallllly wanted to celebrate the entire day!

For breakfast, I think we will do a variation of these

But instead of little pockets I think I will use the mini pie maker! These look amazing!

You could also do mini quiche, those count as pie right?!

I will probably try some version of chicken pot pie but in the mini pie maker, cause it is SO easy to use and the kids will eat anything that comes out of it! But these look really good too!

I will probably do Shepard's pie for dinner but if not these will be a good snack! 

And dessert options!

Cupcakes

Pie

Shoofly Pie

Or mini 

And really isn't a PIZZA a pie?! So maybe I won't do ALL of these and I'll take the easy route for one of them!

And don't forget pie pops!

cute counting project!

And this is SUPER cute, kinda overkill for JUST pie day but it is adorable!

National Popcorn Day

is January 19th!

Fun and simple and inexpensive!  There are so many versions of popcorn you can make~

Kettle

Ourbestbites.com

Chocolate

Colored

Caramel

Popcorn Balls

and the list goes on of course!

I think we will string some popcorn up for the birds!

If you need a dessert or treat for that day, check out these adorable cupcakes!

Or these seriously cute popcorn cake pops! (These might have to make an appearance at a Baseball party coming up!)

cakecentral.com

What are y'all doing for National Popcorn Day?

Meal Plan Monday

The next 2 weeks I am NOT sticking with our regular dinner schedule.

 We have too much stuff in our freezer!

My FAVE Apron Lately

Monday~Chicken and rice with veggies

Tuesday~Taco's

Wednesday~mini pizza's

Thursday~Chili and Cornbread

Friday~Stew

Saturday~Leftovers

Sunday~Take Out

Monday~Chicken Stir Fry

Tuesday~Chicken Tortilla Soup

Wednesday~Spaghetti and Meatballs

Thursday~Potato Soup and Salad

Friday~Meatball Subs

Saturday~Turkey Burgers

Sunday~Mini Pizzas

Not planning on trying any new recipes this time either, unless something comes along on Pinterest that I HAVE to try and have everything for. I don't really want to go back to the grocery store. Lots of Birthday Party planning to be done so I am making easy stuff! Kind of feel like I am cheating.

Organizing Friday

I still haven't quite finished all those magazines from last week! But pretty close, just waiting for a binder to go on  sale! So I had a little time and thought I would tidy up our "office" cupboard. Got rid of some cords to who knows what, went through all the pens and stuff. It wasn't horrible before but it's so much better now!

Before

After

Feeling much better about that, too bad the other side of the kitchen is a HUGE mess! The biggins are having separate birthday parties this year so I feel like I have 2x the amount of party stuff all over, and I feel really behind!

Goodness it is SO messy, but I hope to be able to get things put together a little more and stuff out of the way a little this weekend!

I feel like I am one thing away from a hoarders episode!