Sneak Peek and a Winner

We have a winner for the My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software but first I wanted to give you a sneak peek of what will be going on around this blog next week.

We will be talking about the boy's playroom all week. How I organized it, how I decorated it,  how they destroy it, and how we manage to get it all cleaned up again by the end of the day. I know toy storage and organization is something a lot of parents are struggling with now that Santa has left your house looking like a toy store. So I hope to inspire you to get your children's toys in order too.

Now onto the winner of the giveaway, I got one of my little helpers to assist me.

And he picked the #6 and the 6th person to comment on the giveaway was Shahny. Check your e-mail Shahny for the details on how to get your software.

If you weren't the lucky winner don't worry, all my readers can use this  promo code STMMMS97306 to get $10 off their software order at My Memories.



Sesame Street Party- Wrap Up

The invite was pretty much the only thing I didn't have part in. I ordered these from the Etsy seller, BrieZee's Boutique.

The big white space under the date wasn't actually there, I just whited our address out for privacy reasons.

I shared with you the food, decor, and the party pictures. Now here is how it looked all put together.

I hope you enjoyed party week.

To see more about our Sesame Street Party, visit these links:

The Food

The Decor

The Party Pictures

Don't forget to go enter the My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software Giveaway. It ends Janurary 14th at Midnight.

The fabulous parties I am linking up to:

Lil Luna
Organize and Decorate Everything
Crystal and Co.
House of Hepworths
Delightful Order
Gluesticks
Tatertots and Jello
Be Different Act Normal
I Heart Naptime
Tip Junkie
A Bowl Full of Lemons
Let Birds Fly
Somewhat Simple
Fingerprints on the Fridge
Tidy Mom
320 Sycamore
Oopsey Daisy
Six Sisters Stuff

Sesame Street Party: The Party Pictures

On Monday I showed you the food, yesterday I showed you the decorations, and today I will show you how the "stars of the show" liked their party.

My mom said that when I saw these pictures I would be confused and I was. My husband wasn't paying attention what the bibs said just put a bib on each kid. Resulting in the wrong bib on the wrong kid and I was looking at it thinking....wait a minute that isn't Grant lol 

They didn't care for the bounce house part but they LOVED the slide.

It wouldn't be a party without a tantrum. I know, I know, it's his party he can cry if he wants to.

And these are some of my favorites from the party. They are with their great grandparents.



Tomorrow I will wrap up this party week with the invitations and how it looked all put together.

Don't forget to go enter the My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software Giveaway. It ends Janurary 14th.

Sesame Street Party: The Decor

On Monday, I posted about the food at the party. Today we will focus on the decorations that I spent many late nights and months putting together. Of course I probably could have spent many MORE months planning and added more decorations but there is only so much time. Oh well onto the next party I am planning ;)

I got the idea for these balloon wreaths at How Does She. I think mine must be fuller than hers because I used WAY more balloons than she did. I made at least two extra trips to Walmart because I thought I had enough but turns out I didn't. This was a super easy project but it was pretty time consuming. I guess mainly because I had to do two....story of my life ;) I justified the time it took because I know that I can use them in the future.

The wreaths look really small in this picture but they are really average size, my doors are huge.

To make it more personal for my boys, I made these Sesame Street signs with their names on it. How perfect that I have two doors right?

I made the sign using my Silhouette. I just cut a green and yellow rectangle, a green and yellow circle and glued the circle behind the rectangle where only half was showing. I used the Arial font for the letters and number. Real scientific right?

I also made these Sesame Street characters using my Silhouette to hang on my pot rack. I used the scalloped circle to make the faces and different shapes( circles and ovals) to make the eyes and mouths.

I  like to use my hanging pot rack for anything but it's original purpose of hanging pots.

I made the banner also. I cut the circle and letters on my Silhouette and attached together with ribbon.

This next banner is the only party decoration that I didn't make but it is pretty special too. It was the banner from my 3rd birthday party. Yes my mom really kept it all this time and no she is not some crazy hoarder ;)

The boys got ahold of this banner one day and I was chasing after them saying "Noo you can't play with that it is vintage"...true story :)

I made these for centerpieces for the island. The lollipops were favors for the kids. I made the characters the same way I made the one that were hanging.

I am sure all the parents loved me for the lollipops ;)

To see more about our Sesame Street Party, visit these links:

The Food

The Party Pictures

The Wrap Up

Don't forget to go enter the My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software Giveaway. It ends Janurary 14th.

The fabulous parties I am linking up to:

Lil Luna
Organize and Decorate Everything
Crystal and Co.
House of Hepworths
Delightful Order
Gluesticks
Tatertots and Jello
Be Different Act Normal
I Heart Naptime
Tip Junkie
A Bowl Full of Lemons
Let Birds Fly
Somewhat Simple
Fingerprints on the Fridge
Tidy Mom
320 Sycamore
Oopsey Daisy
Six Sisters Stuff

Sesame Street Party: The Food

On New Years Eve we had the boy's 2nd birthday party. The theme was Sesame Street of couse. All they talk about it "Melmo" (Elmo). I decide to break this up into several different post about the details and then I will show you it all put together at the end of the week.

Today we will talk about the food.

I made this rainbow slushy. I found the recipe at Ramblings from the Sunshine State. It was very tasty and pretty but if left out too long it turns into a yucky brown color.

 It wouldn't be a Sesame Street party without some yummy cookies for Cookie Monster. I made the ultimate cookie, it is a oatmeal, peanut butter, M&M , and chocolate chip cookie all wrapped into one cookie. It is called a Monster Cookie, fitting for a Sesame Street party right? I found the recipe for this at Simply So Good.

We had some potato chips for Big Bird and some goldfish in honor of Dorothy, Elmo's goldfish. We also had pizza because that is Elmo's favortie but I didn't get a picture of that.



And it wouldn't be a birthday without some kind of cake. Me and my cousin made these Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Grouch cupcakes.

To make these we put vanilla icing on the top, dipped them in different colors of sanding sugar.

Elmo

Eyes: Jumbo Marshmallows (sliced in fourths) and chocolate chips

Nose: Orange Peanut M&M

Mouth: Half an Oreo

Cookie Monster

Eyes: Jumbo Marshmallows (sliced in fourths) and chocolate chips

Mouth: Cut a slice in the cupcake and put a mini chocolate chip cookie

Grouch

Eyes: Jumbo Marshmallows (sliced in fourths) and chocolate chips. Black icing for his eyebrows.

Mouth: Half an Oreo

To see more about our Sesame Street Party, visit these links:

The Decor

The Party Pictures

The Wrap Up

Don't forget to go enter the My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software Giveaway. It ends Janurary 14th.

The fabulous parties I am linking up to:

Lil Luna
Organize and Decorate Everything
Crystal and Co.
House of Hepworths
Delightful Order
Gluesticks
Tatertots and Jello
Be Different Act Normal
I Heart Naptime
Tip Junkie
A Bowl Full of Lemons
Let Birds Fly
Somewhat Simple
Fingerprints on the Fridge
Tidy Mom
320 Sycamore
Oopsey Daisy
Six Sisters Stuff

Giveaway: My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software

I was so excited when My Memories contacted me to do a giveaway on my blog.  I scrapbooked many years ago but during a move got rid of all my stuff because I simply didn't have room for it.  There is no denying that scrapbooking takes up a lot of room and produces one BIG mess. That is why digital scrapbooking was so appealing to me...it's mess free.

Not interested in scrapbooking? My Memories software can do greeting cards, gift tags, calendars, photo books, videos and so much more.

I made this to display in the boy's room.

I made these for the boy's to attach to the valentine treats for their friends.

I plan on using a different picture for this. Just haven't got around to taking one yet.

My only complaint is that I didn't get this software sooner. I will save a lot of money on greeting cards with My Memories Suite.

Want to be able to make some awesome things too? My Memories is giving away their software, a $40 value, to one of my lucky readers.

To enter the giveaway simply send me a comment with your email address.

For Extra Entries:
 Go to My Memories and leave me a comment telling me your favorite paper pack. 1 entry
Follow my blog and leave me a comment saying you did so. 1 entry
Follow me on Pinterest by clicking the button on the right sidebar and leave me a comment letting me know you did so. 1 entry

 

The giveaway will close on Saturday, Janurary 14th at Midnight CST and I will post the winner on Sunday, January 15th.

Only one person will win but all my readers can use this  promo code STMMMS97306 to get $10 off their software order at My Memories.

New Years Resolutions

Last years goal was to lose all the baby weight I had gained during my pregnancy. Happy to say I accomplished that goal and can fit in all my pre-pregnancy clothes even though they don't look as good as they use to.

This years goal is to potty train the boys. I don't have high expectations with this so maybe that is a good thing I would just like them to be semi-potty trained by the time they are 3. This isn't my first rodeo and I have potty trained many of other people's kids so I know that this is not something that happens overnight...especially with boys. We have owned a potty chair for a about a month now and the boys will sit on it....that's the first step, right? I am just impressed that they do that because I can't get them to sit still anywhere else. I hope next year I am writing about how we accomplished this goal. Wish us luck!

Now onto your New Years Resolutions....Was "GET ORGANIZED" on your list of things to do? If so you have come to right place. 

Here are some of the many projects I have done in the past year to give you some inspiration to get started.

My Pantry

My Closet Part 1 & Part 2

Kid's Closet

"Junk" Closet

Gift Wrap Station

Those are just a few of my organizing projects. If you would like to see more click on the organization label on the right sidebar or at the bottom of this post.

In the coming months I will be showing you how I organize our playroom, kid's memorabilia, my spice cabinet, my craft room and much more.



The fabulous parties I am linking up to:

Lil Luna
Organize and Decorate Everything
Crystal and Co.
House of Hepworths
Delightful Order
Gluesticks
Tatertots and Jello
Be Different Act Normal
I Heart Naptime
Tip Junkie
A Bowl Full of Lemons
Let Birds Fly
Somewhat Simple
Fingerprints on the Fridge
Tidy Mom
320 Sycamore