The Princess Birthday Party Here! Part 1

This past Saturday we had the Princess party here. When we talked about having her party in LA I had told hubby I still wanted a party here because this is where she is from:) and for the past year it has been so hard to have many people over at the same time and I really do like entertaining. It is getting a little easier to do things like that again now that the Princess is a little older and we are on a better schedule.

Here is a picture of her invite that I made. I do have to give credit to my sweet hubby who "tweaked" this after I finished it!! Again, I have changed some of the personal info on the invite for the blog!

I will post pictures of the party tomorrow! I still have to go in and edit them and convert them over to jpeg files so hopefully I will get that done quickly:)!

Hope you all have a great Thursday!!

Part 2 - Party Over The 4th of July in LA

Here are a few pictures from the LA party. Make sure you check out the very last one. Some people ask me if the Princess is always smiling and I usually say most of the time unless she is hungry, tired or needs her diaper changed. I think this picture has tired written all over it. Hubby and the Princess left when the party was over and headed back to my inlaws while I helped clean up. Hubby called me and said she was asleep in probably less than 2 minutes of leaving the party...she was one tired little girl but such a happy little girl until the end of the night.

Tomorrow I will begin posting about her party here this past Saturday! I did a totally different invitation for that party and I really liked the way it turned out!

Hope you all have a great Wednesday!!

Party Over the 4th of July in LA - Part 1

So we traveled back home for the 4th of July. A while back it had been mentioned to us to have a birthday party for the Princess while we were there. We thought about it and decided to because it would be a great way for friends and family to get to see the little Princess. One thing that is so hard when we go back home is trying to fit in getting to see everyone we want to see. It would be great if we could just have everyone over to one location (it would make it easier on us anyway) but that does not seem to happen. But this time it did. I have a cousin and several friends that would probably always make sure it would happen if they thought that would make us make it back home more often:)!! The party was so much fun and watching the Princess made it even more fun!

Correction to my previous post - I said the party was on July 3rd - it was on July 2nd.

I will have a post with a few pictures from the party tomorrow!  Here is the invitation from the party and the Thank You card from the party.  The invitation is a 4x9 card and the thank you card was made like a note card that you can open up and write on the inside, it was 4.25x5.5.  I made both of these.  My friend knew how much I was wanting to learn how to do these invitations and cards so she got me in touch with her SIL who was so kind to talk me through it over the phone.  Thank you both SO MUCH!!  I was so hooked after I got off the phone with her and stayed up for hours playing around on the computer.  Now I am just looking for things to make invitations/cards for:)!  The picture in the thank you card is the Princess eating her cake!

Here is the invitation that I made for this party.  I did change out some of the personal info for the blog. 

And here is the thank you!

I used  the digital package Sweet Cupcake by Dani Mogstad from Sweet Shoppe Designs


Hope you all have a great Tuesday!!

Forever!

Saying it has been forever since I have blogged is an understatement!! We have had so much going on that by the time evening comes around and the Princess goes to bed I am exhausted! I can't believe I did not even blog on her birthday but we were actually traveling that day. We had gone back home for the 4th of July weekend and while we were there the Princess had party 1 of 2 for her birthday. We did a party there on July 3rd and then we did a party here yesterday (July 17th). Both parties were SOOO much fun. I will be posting pictures and blogging about each one. She did great at both of them I might add!! We did the same theme at both of them and she wore the same little birthday outfit to both of them. I made the invitations for both parties and I did do those differently. I will post a picture of those to. I have also made her thank you cards for the party back home and will be making the ones for the party yesterday in the next couple of days. I will post those to. So see, I have ALOT to post about, it is just time I do not have these days.

Oh, the Princess took 4 steps on Thursday (July 15th). She has taken a couple of more over the weekend and then took probably about 5 more today....I think she will be walking all around here before I know it!!

The picture above is of her and hubby. He was actually clipping her nails in this picture. He still is the only one that clips her nails!!

SURPRISE....well, kinda.....

**I have been a little behind on blogging and when you read this post you will see why! Planning Hubby's 40th has taken every bit of spare time I have**

For a little over a month I have been planning a surprise party for Hubby's 40th birthday. Everything was going great until I had to tell Hubby he was having a party. Well, had I not told him he would have found out anyway because one of his co-workers that changed jobs did not delete the email so he saw it when he was cleaning up that guys computer.

We had so much fun! I think Hubby was still somewhat surprised. I invited two of his friends from back home he has been friends with at least since highschool if not before and they were both in our wedding as well. One was able to come with his wife but the other one had to work. Hubby's mom and dad came along with his sister and her kids. Dear friends of ours came and almost all Hubby's coworkers were here along with several of our neighbors. We had at least 47 people including us which I thought was a great turnout!!

Sunday morning we skipped church because I had a breakfast planned for all the people that had come from back home.  Hubby's family stayed here with us and his friends stayed in a hotel so I thought it would be fun for all of them to get to spend time together since I knew they would not get much time to chat at the party.

It was quite a busy week and weekend getting everything ready! I had so many things planned to do that I just never got around to. It is very hard planning a semi-surprise party by yourself when you are taking care of an almost 11 month old at the time all day. I did get through all the pictures.

On Saturday several of my friends came over to help me get ready and help with the Princess. I am so thankful for friends that are always there to help out no matter what! I was probably recruiting them a month ago just so they would have it on their calendar because like I said before I just can't get much done during the day with the Princess!!

Thanks to my friend Jen we have lots of pictures from the party. (She is also going to take the pictures at the Princess birthday party). Had it not been for her I would have been lucky to have 5 pictures I was so busy doing so many other things!! Here are some pictures from Saturday night!  Now, she took over 100 pictures so there is just no way I can post all of them:)....I may post more though in a few other post later.

A night out and a babysitter.......

A few weeks ago I had gone to Hubby's office for a birthday party for one of the ladies there and found out that we all had tickets to go see Wicked last night! They ask me if I would get a babysitter for the Princess because she could not go. I called my friend Gretchen to see if she could watch her for us and she could so we were able to go!

We dropped the Princess off at Gretchen's around 5:30 and we left there around 5:45. We made it to dinner with Hubby's co-workers in time (we thought we might be a little late for that) and then got to see the musical. It was great! I stayed awake the whole time:). Ok, the inside joke to that is anytime I am very still for any length of time these days I seem to fall asleep. I am guessing I will catch up on my sleep in about 18 - 20 years!!

Gretchen sent me a picture of the Princess while she was playing and a couple of text messages to let us know she was doing fine. She was asleep when we picked up her up and she even stayed asleep when we got home and Hubby put her down in her bed!!

It was a fun night! The picture above is the picture that Gretchen sent me during the night to show me the Princess was having a good time!!!

Memorial Day!

Last week was a very busy week around here! Lots and lots of cleaning and throwing stuff away! We now have a pile of stuff hubby has to take to the dump, a pile for goodwill and then we have thrown alot of stuff in the trash, oh yes, and a shred pile to. I was so glad this was a long weekend because Hubby really helped alot over the weekend and Monday! I will be posting soon why all I have been doing lately is CLEANING, CLEANING, CLEANING!

Monday afternoon we took a break from our cleaning and went to a friends house for a Memorial Day Party. They just got their pool finished so we lathered the Princess down in sunscreen and stopped and picked up some "little swimmers" and let her play in the pool. She had so much fun! I could not believe how much she liked it!! Hubby wanted me to put her in swimming lessons this summer and after seeing how much fun she had playing in the pool I may just have to do that.

You can also see in the pictures she has on a little two piece. That was one of the baby gifts from my friend Susie. Doesn't she look cute!

Here are a few more pictures of her from Monday!