Woodland Creature Baby Shower

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Yesterday I shared the Wreath I made for the shower we threw last weekend for my friend Jennie, and today I wanted to share the other elements that we came up with for our Woodland Creature theme. Jessica and Katy did most of these details, and they are SO cute! 

The Welcome table, we had a book for everyone to sign when they came in, as a keepsake. It would be so fun looking back when he's older to see what everyone wrote.

Katy made these adorable "Squirrel Snacks" which were trail mix in mason jars, I will say it was good, I had the whole jar finished before I knew it! I wish I would have taken more than one ;) I just love the burlap around the jar.

Since the mommy to be isn't a huge fan of cake, I made these bite size cupcakes instead.  S'mores, strawberry, cookies and cream, and peanut butter cup.  It was easy to just pop one (or 5) in you mouth! ;) I found the recipe for these here.

Katy made these moss covered letters, Jennie's nursery is woodland themed so this would fit right in.

Jennie's sister-in-law made the "acorn cookies" and Jessica made the "Gnome Walking Sticks" which were chocolate covered pretzels rolled in nuts. YUM!  Again I wish I had taken more leftovers ;)

Jessica and I made these flowers out of paper bags, via Martha Stewart. They were super easy and inexpensive.

We had more food made by Katie, the soon to be aunt of Eli.  Which was awesome, she did the food at our wedding reception and I still think about how good it was!  I didn't get any good pictures of the other food, but I think you get the overall idea with these.  We had so much fun celebrating, and now that the showers are over I can't wait to meet those little babies!!

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Woodland Creature Wreath

Hi there! For the past month or so I have been in baby shower mode, two of my best friends are expecting back to back and we threw them a shower back to back.  A couple of weeks ago I shared the pink and teal shower we threw for Katy.  This past weekend we celebrated Jennie's soon to be little guy with a Woodland Creature theme.

We had so much fun putting all the details together for this one! Today I wanted to share this cute little wreath I made that was inspired by her invitations.

Jennie was a gnome for Halloween once and for some reason, every time any of us see one, we think of her, so these invitations were perfect. :) And the perfect inspiration for a wreath! 

Since I love felt and wreaths are my specialty ;) I was really excited to make this.  Using the cute little guys on the invitation as a guide, I cut the gnome and hedgehog out of felt.  Then wrapped a vine wreath with twine and glued my felt guys onto it.   For the flag I cut the letters using my Silhouette Machine and glued them on the felt.

The little hedgehog was one of my favorite parts of the invite so I had to include him! He just makes me want to squeal he's so cute! lol

I love the woodsy feel of the wreath contrasted by the soft felt! 

My other friends Jessica and Katy threw this shower with me and everything they did was so adorable, I will share more pictures tomorrow! 

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Pink and Teal Baby Shower

Over this past weekend I threw a baby shower for one of my best friends, Katy.  The past few weeks my other two girlfriends and I have been focused on all the details of it, we love throwing showers! And it is exciting to go from wedding showers to baby showers now.   

I thought I would share some of the elements we did, because I thought it turned out so cute! We first thought of a theme, more a color scheme, of pink and teal and burlap. 

We had such a great time celebrating, everyone was really FIRED up at one point...I'll get to that in a minute. ;)

A little welcome sign for the guests.

We took our sofa out of my living room to make room for table and chairs, we wanted everyone to be comfortable, and have a place to set their plate and drink.   It's always the worst trying to eat something with a fork while holding your drink! 

These adorable table runners were made by the other hostesses, Jennie and Jessica.  That's Jennie in the picture, she's another soon to be momma! 

It is always so fun to see your friends baby pictures and trying to imagine what their new little baby will be like! Jennie rounded up some branches from her yard and we made a little baby picture display, by clipping on the pictures with tiny close pins.  And I made the banner with burlap and my silhouette machine.

We loved the idea of writing advice or thoughts on a diaper, maybe it will give them a little laugh or smile during those 3am diaper changes. 

For me my favorite part of showers is always the food. ;)

Jessica made this beautiful cake! I'm in love with the ombre effect, she is an amazing cake decorator and it tasted great too! (Jes and I love making cakes she was my partner in the garden cake I posted about last year.)

Here I am with the mommy to be! We had such a fun day celebrating Katy and her little baby girl that's on the way!

I also made this sash for her a few weeks ago, I hadn't ever heard of a belly sash until she mentioned it to me.  It is amazing how quickly trends change about babies. Carter is only 4 and things have changed so much since he was a baby! I love this belly sash trend though, super cute!

You can see this in my Esty shop if you would like one of your own.

So when I said everyone was fired up, I mean literally there was a fire in my living room at one point! 

It went kinda like this, the winner of one of the games got a prize, which had tissue paper in the bag.   Katy's mom opened the gift, and the tissue paper fell into a candle on the table.  Seconds after she gets the gift I heard a commotion and look over and Katy's mom is waving a flaming tissue paper, with a shocked/terrified look on her face, and the fire just kept growing!  No one knew what to do, I am stunned holding a piece of cake in my hand, Im pretty sure I was jumping up and down, like that would help things.  So the girl next to her mom grabs the tissue, by now it is just a ball of fire, she runs a few steps towards the door, with pieces of burning tissue paper flying off. At this point I thought, wow my house is literally going to go up in flames right now. lol.  I start to stomp a small piece of tissue that is flaming in front of me, and she can't hold the paper anymore since its all fire, it falls on the carpet and she frantically stomps it out, completely burning her shoe in the process.  

Finally it was all over, it seemed like 10 minutes but Im sure the whole thing was more like 30 seconds.  Phew! After we realized everything was safe we all started laughing and recapping the whole thing to each other.  We are so thankful no one was hurt or it wasn't worse! Once things settled down we went back into shower mode like nothing happened :)  It was a memorable day for sure!! Luckily we were able to get the burn spot out of the carpet too, so alls well that ends well! :)

We played Bingo as one of the games, I made a card for it and you can download it below if you would like to.  Just hit the arrow button in the bottom right.  For personal use only.

You can fill in the squares with items the mommy to be may receive as gifts, and as she opens them, the guests mark off the item if it is on their card. First to get five in a row wins.

We are throwing Jennie a baby shower in 3 weeks, she is having a boy so it will be fun to go in a totally different direction with hers, I don't think we will be using any candles either. ;)

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Cookies and Cream Popcorn

Happy Valentines Day! Last night I made these yummy treats for Carter to take to school today.  I had made them before for his birthday party, and it is so good I knew I had to make it again!

Cookies and Cream Popcorn

Recipe:

1/3 cup of popcorn kernels 

3 Tblspoons of oil

2 sleeves of Oreos

Vanilla candy melts

I also added pink and red candy for V-day.

In a skillet pop the popcorn in the oil and set aside in a large bowl, crush up Oreos into chunks and add to the popcorn.

Melt the vanilla candy melts in 30 second intervals until smooth, then pour it over the popcorn Oreo mixture.  

Stir together so the melted chocolate coats everything. 

Spread on wax paper and to let the chocolate set.

That's it, I bagged it up in these little bags and made a cute tag for Cart's friends at school.  

I'll warn you this stuff is sooo good!! I had to get on to my husband because he kept grabbing spoonfuls. ;) 

Hope you all have a wonderful day full of LOVE! 

A Girly Valentine

Target is so smart for having their dollar section right as you walk in, it is a total magnet for me and I fill my cart up with useless stuff before I'm even 10 feet in the door.  I can't pass it up though, everything is so stinking cute, and a dollar at that! A few weeks ago when they started to put out their Valentines things I saw the cutest nail files and had to get them.  Then I remembered seeing these cute mistletoe gifts around Christmas and thought doing something similar with these nail files would be a cute little Girly Valentine!

The one thing I love about Valentines Day is you can basically put any cheesy saying on the tag and it works! ;) 

So, I got the nail files and twine in the dollar section of Target, then got some nail polish to go with it.  On another day I actually saw nail polish in the dollar section too.

As for the tags, I made them on Picmonkey.com it is my favorite place to quickly edit photos or make little tags, they have a lot of fonts and almost all they offer is for free.

Here's the tag I made if you want to right click and save as.

Since I have a boy and there's not a lot of girlishness around my house, these were really fun to make!
It just made me want to give myself a manicure. :)

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Valentines Wreath

Hello there! I hope you are having a great new year so far! Here in Oklahoma our weather can't make up it's mind. One day it's 35 degrees and the next it its almost 70.  Typical Oklahoma! So this weekend it was really pretty, we got to get out of the house and try out some of Carter's new Christmas gifts like his new bike and scooter.  It made me excited for Spring to get here so we can do more outdoor stuff!

Since it was so pretty I was inspired to make, what else...? you guessed it, a wreath! This one is for Valentines. I feel really behind on the Valentines decorating.  It seems like people are decorating earlier and earlier for the holidays! Although, I don't really do anything inside for specific holidays beside Christmas, more seasonal. Mostly because I don't have enough room to store anything!  

Since I don't have a lot of room to put stuff, I always use this same straw wreath form by covering it and pinning stuff on rather than gluing, that way I don't have 10 wreaths lined up in a closet or tossed in the attic. 

I kind of made a semi-resolution this year to try and use up scraps I have before buying anything else and that is what I did here! 

I had the wreath, which was wrapped with burlap from another wreath I made last year.  The sun had faded the burlap on some parts, but I think it adds to the rustic feel.  That's what I'm telling myself anyway. ;)

Since I always pin on the embellishments I have a lot of flowers already made in my stash, I grabbed a couple to add. 

And as for the heart, before I painted it, I cut it out of cardboard then peeled off the top layer to expose the corrugated center.  I LOVE that textured look, and it was completely free!  

I used a kabob skewer and felt for the arrow, and glued it onto the heart. Then I stuck it on with straight pins, that way once Valentines is over I can just change it to something else!  I do love Valentines though, love in the air, red and pink everywhere. :) So do you decorate for every holiday??

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I've been a mom for 4 years now

Today is Carter's 4th birthday. He has grown up so much this year.  Every day he says something new that makes us laugh.  It is hard to believe he has been on this earth for 4 years, but when I think back to the morning that I had him, it seems like so long ago.  Jamie and I were just talking this morning about that day.  We had no clue what we were going to do.  We hardly knew each other it seemed, much less trying to raise a baby! But now here we are 4 whole years later and each day is better than the one before. 

We had so much fun with Carter this past year, he is our little buddy that has conversations with us and makes us laugh.

Some things small things that I don't want to ever forget:

When I ask him what he wants to be when he grows up he says, I don't want to grow up.  Smart kid, I don't want to grow up either. ;)

His favorite color is green, just because it is Dad's favorite. Sometimes it is blue.

He wants to do everything just like Dad, not Mom.  He'll ask a question and if I answer he'll say, no I was just talking to Dad.

He loves, cars, trucks, vans and jeeps.  We literally have hundreds of hot wheels, and he plays with them all, lining them up saying they are parked and going to a party. He loves to point out every kind of car that we pass.  He has all the logos memorized. And always wants me to draw them out so he can guess which one it is.

He doesn't eat much, I am hoping this changes one day.  Nuggets, pizza, PB&J's, that's about it.

He is so sweet and tells us, I love you, multiple times a day. Even multiple times an hour for that matter lol.

He loves making new friends and will with anyone he meets.

He is rough and strong, like seriously could tackle me to the ground, lol. 

He is so easy going, what every we ask him to do he may not at first but then says, Alwright.

One of his new things he says is So... your wearing your black shirt today, huh? or So... you're cooking dinner huh?

When I put him to bed at night I lay next to him until he goes to sleep, if I think he is asleep and start to get up, he'll barley be able to open an eye and say still can't sleep, so I lay down for a few minutes longer, until his breathing lets me know he has drifted off into dream land.  I love these moments because it's the only time he is still and I just look at him and can't believe that he is so big and that he is mine.

He is Jamie and I's best friend.

These four years have flown by and I want to remember every little second of him because I know it will keep going faster and faster.

Happy Birthday Baby Boy!