Woodlands Baby Shower

As I am planning my next baby shower for a friend, I realized I never posted picture of the Woodlands Themed Baby Shower my friends and I threw earlier this year. It truly was a "dream team" of people helping me. My friend (who happens to be a graphic designer) created this invitation:

The Decorations:

The Food:

The Cake was made by my friend Kristie, who agreed to do it, even though she stopped doing her cake business:

My friend Amy, who has experience with a million baby showers helped with the games and activities, but I didn't happen to get any pictures of those things. Laura, who is an experienced canner, gave away some canned jam for the game winners.

I also made little containers of trail mix, put them in small containers from the dollar store, and put a piece of a flower (from the fake flowers from the dollar store) on top.

So much fun!

Fishbowl Craft, Spooky soap tags, and a bit more fun

Since I dropped my masters class this semester, I have had a lot of fun actually doing some of the things I saw on Pintrest. Here is the gift I gave the kids in Jay's class...I got some Swedish fish very cheap with coupons like a month ago, and even though this would have been perfect for valentines day, I didn't think they would last that long. I found these on etsy: http://everything-in-focus.blogspot.com/2012/02/valentines-treats.html but didn't like how they looked, so in the comments I found a link to a free one...but I didn't like that one either so I designed my own based on the general shape, and made it a little more Halloweeney with an orange fishbowl and a fun font.

Then I wanted to make something tasty for friends who were coming over, so I made this:

The Cheeseball I pinned from this site: http://www.familyfreshmeals.com/2012/09/the-perfect-fall-cheese-ball.html I used a variety of coupons and sales to get these soaps for very cheap, so I decided they would make good teacher presents, and I got the tags printed at Mail n Copy on card stock. I had orange and black ribbon in my scrapbooking stuff, and we found some little spider stickers (that I got 75% off after Halloween last year so we stuck them on top. On the back I wrote.. "Thank you for teaching Jay" and "Thank you for teaching Andy"

I found the free printable tags here: http://www.sisterssuitcaseblog.com/2013/09/pumpkin-soap-gift-printable-tag.html Grandpa and Grandma S. brought back some soccer jersies from their trip to Italy. Know these players?

Some wrestling with Daddy when he gets home from work. I love Andy's face in the second one.

Andy's room is GREEN

We decided to paint Andy's room kind of a lime green because It would look awesome, and because the room I had when we were dating was that color and we both liked it. The shade we went with isn't super bright, but it still looks great. It matches the theme I have from his nursery (Music nursery). It actually looks more yellowish in the pictures, but once you are in the room it looks a lot more green. We bought him a dresser....Yippee! I was getting sick of putting all his clothes in little baskets underneath the changing table. The black contrasts with the green wall very well. Some of the sayings I found on Pintrest and framed are looking great in the space. We plan on getting him a big boy bed with a black headboard to match the colors of the room, but he isn't quite ready for that yet. He also has a shelf on the bookshelf with a "Very Hungry Caterpillar" Theme, and he loves to pull off those toys and play with them. Here is the link to his old "music nursery" Here are some pictures of what we have so far... What do you think?

Jay's Thomas birthday party (Take 1)

Here are a bunch of pictures from the party. A real post will follow soon.