Lil Muffin turned 3!!

Her actual birthday was during the week, but we decided to have her party on Saturday- we had our usual dinner as a family with our close friends- those pictures will be posted later. Here are some snipits from saturday- Princess and the frog was the theme we decorated for. its hard decorating at a pool!!! Not my ideal location, and not how i envisioned it, but she loved it and that's ALL that mattered!

Green punch to stick with the purple, lavendar and green theme- i'm pretty sure i made enough punch for all of the city! I used : green kool-a*d, sugar, water, sprite, and some lime sherbert.. fun punch with a kick

I made her tutu with glitter tulle and had her tank top made to match by a friend. Our neighbor just bought a new dog, so of course SHE needed a tutu to match as well! - the picture would have turned out perfect if the toddler would've cooperated, but we ALL know how that one goes.. its doesnt and you roll with the punches, take 50 pictures and pic the ONE that will work ;)

Lil muffins friends from the neighborhood- and her sissy

The end of the table- i usually go all out with food and decided to make it simple with hot dogs, chips and watermelon. NEVER have i gone this simple.

I had gone to a bridal shower a few months back- there were these mini cakes that were gorgeous. i decided to ask the girl that made them to make lil muffins birthday cake. Well, you know how you envision something to look?! this wasnt it.. i imagined glitter, lavendar, and a mini frog with a huge crown on his head. Long story short, this cake didnt have any lavendar on it, so i doctored it up as m uch as i could.. being a control freak, that's what happens. Next year, i'll just make the cake. Lil muffin LOVED the cake and once again, in the grand scheme of things, that's all that mattered!!

i chose to make frog cupcakes to accent the cake- i had visioned them on my gorgeous square cake plates and the cake on the top. but it was so blasted hot out and i was nervous toting all 3 cake stands down to the pool with the kids there. i'm pyschotic about my stuff and if one was broken by a child, i might stroke out. so.. i let my crazy perfectionism slide and put the cupcakes on a COOKIE SHEET--- gasp.. i know.( on a side note, did you know that they now make NEON food coloring?! um.. so you know that bright color of frosting you can never get?! you can now, baby.. neon is my new FAVE!)

"Make a wish!!!"

My fave part of her opening presents!! this bag was about as big as her and she literally crawled into the sucker to get her present out!

After a full day of swimming and all of her friends gone, girlfriend went back for some more cake- girl after my own heart loving her sweeets! she DEVOURED it

We were all wore slap out from being at the pool all day and decided to hit up one of those restraunts that cooks your food in front of you- notice in this picture, mini me is

MISSING?! she's in between blondie and chick with the camera UNDER THE TABLE because she hates the fire.. honestly.. LOOK @ lil muffins face.. hilarious!!!

3 rd time in a week she had people sing happy birthday to her- she owned it this year and is STILL saying its her birthday!

i cannot believe ANOTHER year has passed us by with her- she literally was DAYS shy of her 1st brithday when we moved here- look at all the great times and friends we've made since! we're so blessed!

**Happy Birthday, Lil Muffin!**

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Today is my sweet husbands birthday and i wanted to make this post for him- I try and make EVERY birthday special.. Mini Me has wrapped his gifts on her own- in purple boxes with manly ribbon, LOL!!
Im TRYING to make his dinner, with a yorkie in my peanut shell from when lil muffin was a baby.
Its all coming together slowly, but i WILL get it done!

Babe, i am so blessed to spend ANOTHER year with you and another birthday.. they only get better!

(In the last 24 hrs, we have had some major events- i'll expand on that later but ask for your prayers for our little yorkie. )

Babe, we are so blessed to spend ANOTHER year with you and another birthday.. they only get better!

We LOVE our Daddy!! Cheers to many more years of laughs, dirty diapers, giggles, messing up the house with toys, and lots of little hugs and kisses !

Weekend of Fun & Celebration!!

This last week, my BEST friend from Birth turned the big 3-0. All of her friends got together and planned a lil suprise party for her- and suprise it was.. Even better, we showed up! ;) I had to make sure it was all decorated, after all what's a party with lousy decor? These chocolate covered marshmallows have become my trademark.. had to make them for the party.. threw some things together and made a dessert table.
I had a stack of scrapbook paper so based the colors around that paper-

The table set up- BEFORE all the food

I found this cool idea in blog land- ribbon tied in a knot in all colors..

made it almost look like a corset top - HUGE HIT

The girls at the party- including mini me holding the wine glass we gave her- in pink said "30" and had glitter all over it

She was SO happy -- probably to have a get together, NOT to be 30.. she's still in shock over that one

My fave part of this picture? Lil muffin in the bottom left corner.. look at her face!

The party hat was a hit... DOLLA TREE where else?

CHEERS TO ANOTHER 30 years!!

I have some more pictures from this trip on our way home that i KNOW will intrigue you.. little clue..GYPSIES!

Another Night of Celebration

My parents flew in from Oregon for a week of fun- they flew in Cinco de mayo.. no margaritas in hand, unfortch ;) The day after they came, we planned for a family birthday party for mini me- my bestie here in Ga. came as well The cake request this year was a strawberry cake. There is a fabulous place in Augusta called Very Vera- if you watch Opr*h, or read her magazine, her best friend, Ga*l LOVES their strawberry cake so much it was featured in the magazine recently!( they have a web site and ship everywhere!!!) I thought it would be extra special buying her a famous cake! 40 dollars later, and her first bite.. her response was : "i dont like this"... uh.. DANGIT!!!!!! i striked out hard core on that one! i guess buying a 2 dollar box of cake mix wouldve done me more good..

Mini Me's not so little anymore!

Our life has been crazy nuts in the last month... i will try and fill you in thru my next few posts. Mini me turned 7, and so we do it up big at our house. This year's theme is Candy land we have jars of candy filled in lots of fun glass jars on our lege in the kitchen ( i'll try and post pictures of that on a later post)'. Before she went to school, i made sure to get pictures. She got a bike this year- since now we have streets to practice on and lots of new clothes at her fave store, Justice, which is EVERY little girls dream for shopping ( where was that store when I was that age)?! Grandma and Grandpa sent her money for shopping and then we kicked in more so she could get everything she wanted.( shoes and flip flops a result of the shop)

Ever Since her first birthday, we have gone to Red Robin every year ON the actual birthday to celebrate for lunch. So, this was the 7th year- she told our server : "excuse me, before you forget, its my birthday today! " hilarious!

LOOK- A -LIKES!!
My girls ( can you figure out which one is the one that gives me a run for my money? the Curly Q, aka, lil Muffin!)

This was our immediate Family Birthday.. More pics from 2 more parties to come! YEs.. we do it big for birthdays!