Baseball Party!

Day 2 of Birthday Weekend was for our big 7 year old!

He hasn't figured out that he can request Birthday themes so I still get full control (woooohooooo!!!)  

We were doing a much smaller party, only about 8 guests and it was SO nice outside! Feb in Oregon is usually horrible! The boys all played great, no one got hurt and they didn't leave too many leftovers! It was perfect, couldn't have asked for anything better, well other than my battery on the camera to last a little longer!

Drinks

Table

Baseball Hat Cups for their small goodies, gumballs, sixlets, seeds and peanuts!

Popcorn Marshmallow Pops

Fruits and Veggies

Licorice

No pictures of the Pinata, I filled it with peanuts, tattoos, packs of Wrigley's gum, little baseball bouncy balls, and baseball cards! Didn't get pictures of the pennants the boys decorated. But I did snag some of the favors

chapstick in gum flavors!

And of my big 7 year old!

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Valentine's Decorations

I realize that Valentine's Day is less than a week away and I haven't shared our decorations! I think it's because I don't like them!! I feel like they are just not my style so much anymore, and I don't have nearly as many as I thought! So I have been hesitant to share them, they aren't pretty or vintage or handmade or crafty. They are just random things from different places over the years.. YUCK!

But I am working on a banner for the mantle, that might make me feel a little better about it and I know what I WANT to do, it's just finding MAKING the time to do it!

Its that whole balance issue again. In the big scheme of things decorations for a month out of the year just aren't THAT important, but I feel like I am kind of letting the kids down, because they love it and expect it. So I am stalking Pinterest and all the fun blogs and I WILL be making new stuff for next year (hopefully with clearance supplies)

What did you all make this year?!

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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!

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