LAST Week of Summer

And I am sad and excited all at once!

I will for sure miss my littles those hours they are at school but I am excited for fall, getting back together with friends again, since we are all so busy in the summer, having some 1 on 1 time with the baby and all the other fun Fall stuff!

This week is already packed in the evenings but we are spending our last few days of freedom doing as much as we can, so dinner has to be easy and there won't be too many projects this week, and maybe not even any laundry!

Meals

Monday~Chicken and Pasta

Tuesday~Tacos

Wednesday~Turkey Meatballs with rice

Thursday~Whatever hubby decides 

Friday~Pizza

Saturday~Turkey Burgers

Sunday~Pork Tenderloin

Around the House

~usual weekly chores

~Finish tidying garage

~Clean up backyard

Fun Stuff

~Riding Lessons 

~PARTY planning

~PARTY!!!

~Lots of NEW to us Parks

~Back to school haircut and date with my girl

~Back to School Fairy will start to visit too!

Off to enjoy this very Fall like day with the kids!

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Pickles and Ice Cream Shower Inspiration

I am just LOVING this theme for a baby shower! 

It's great for a boy or girl, or unknown.

I am not planning a baby shower anytime soon, but this is for sure my favorite!

Invitations

Zazzle

The next thing I try to put together is usually the fluff, you know, the balloons, poms, and big decorations. Only because I have the worst luck with the DIY versions, I need lots of time to do and then re-do!

I love a wreath or some other door decoration to start things off

I would use a feather wreath like this one, or for less money a DIY Tulle wreath. In whatever color to go with your theme!

And these mini pickle ornaments are available all over the internet, and also at Christmas time in many stores.

And there are similar ice cream cone ones. But in DIY fashion, I would personally just use a few mini sugar cones and some tiny tissue poms or fluffy pompoms and make them for less money.

I love the ice cream balloons in bunches like these

But I like the style below better!

I couldn't find any pickle balloons, but I think 1 style of shaped balloons is plenty. 

I would use tissue poms for the other colors instead.

I would do green, and you could make the ice cream blue if it were for a boy, or white or chocolate for non specified.

For food I am always on the hunt for themed things. Sometimes it is hard to make a full menu with themed stuff and that is ok. Add what you can to your favorites and the themed stuff will still be memorable.

Some ideas for this are

Fried Pickles? Kinda crazy but maybe your guest of honor is a little crazy?

Cookies are ALWAYS good for getting your theme on the food or dessert table. 

How cute are these?!

Love the texture on the pickles!

And with cake pops still being SO popular, it wasn't hard to find some sweet ideas for this theme either.

Bakerella is amazing as usual!

and I guess pickles would be appropriate too.

And a huge pickle cake?! 

via flicker

And for other stuff I tend to just match the shape, or colors too.

I did see a big pickle candy mold, could maybe make a big green ice cube for punch? I'm not sold on that though :)

One of our discount stores has the colored plastic ones, and Dollar Tree usually has these ice cream glasses

which would be perfect for nuts, mints or chocolates!

Favors are one of my favorite things about parties and showers!

I am also a fan of edible favors usually.

If I were personally doing this shower I would have to

 have these seriously cute bags for some pickle shaped cookies!

Or these cute mini ice cream cartons, you could make Thank You stickers for them. Fill with homemade ice cream or other treat.

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Good Morning Basket

Mornings here are about to get crazy again and I am not really a fan of hectic mornings.So I am doing what I can ahead of time to make it easier for everyone in the morning. 

Last year about this time I shared our little breakfast prep

While that works well for us still it's just not enough for the morning. And especially now that Finnley likes to do everything himself! I swear I am cleaning off the pantry floor and doorknob 20 times a day. So I would rather keep him out a few times if I can. I also needed to have more prep done in the morning and make our mornings what we want them to be! A time to talk for a few minutes, plan our day, snuggle and make sure everyone has a good start.

So I did this instead

In it we have this devotional that our biggin reads to his siblings in the morning, yes it says for preschoolers but I think it's alright for all 3 of them.

The kids have their little chore packs in there

The cards are in order of what they should be doing.

And the jars are granola, and brown sugar 2 of the things we use most at breakfast, since we will be going back to my "Breakfast Schedule". I haven't been real with it over the summer, the kids have had yogurt and smoothies with all this fresh fruit available a lot more often.

And my devotional for right now.

So far I love it.

What do you do to make morning smooth running?

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Little Back to School Banner

Well I don't know what happened to the other one :(

I am not quite finished with all the bins in the garage, hope I find it out there cause I really liked that one!

But since I hadn't found it and time was running low anyway, I made a new one!

It's a super simple one but I love the vintage (not THAT vintage though) library cards!

I just hole punched them and used some ribbon to thread them together.

Some die cut letters and it was done.

I will for sure have to use some more of these library cards in my back to school party!

Might have a few sneaks this week.

Happy Monday!

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