Birthday party #2

Now that the sickies are all over with, we were able to finally get our party rolling!

I may or may not go slightly overboard with birthday décor but I believe just as well go all the way!

 

Here was the foyer set up!

 

 

 

The kids jumped right into playing.... and they played and played and played.  We had two girls not able to come and our next door friend jumped in... and all of them had a GREAT TIME!!

 

They had dinner and went back to playing.

 

After a bit, we jumped right in and designed their craft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After I got the vinyl cut, the applied them to their mugs.

 

 

 

After crafting they went back to playing.  I almost had to beg for them to come do birthday cake and song!  sheesh LOL

 

 

 

 

(coolest candles ever - the flame is the same color as the candle).  It was a good way to intrigue a pack of 11 year olds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then afterwards, they played.....

 

About 10:00 pm I realized it was 10:00 pm, Brandon went home so the girls changed into pj's and M opened her gifts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then you guessed it..... they went back to playing until it was lights out time.

 

She had a MARVELOUS time!!!  Repeatedly she told me it was her best birthday ever!  Yay!! Mission accomplished.

 

We ran out of time for the chase/pop balloon game, didn't do the piñata, and didn't do the photo booth (I'm very sad about this one).... but that's ok, they had a GREAT time!!!

 

Whew!! 

 

Here are a few close ups of the décor, all of it hand made in every single spare second that we had.

 

 

 

 

We made some "sea glass" candy.

 

 

 

I added more drinks to the drink station.  I love the little water bottle wraps!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Their finish products.

 

I am soooo happy she had a great time!  I can't believe she's 11 now..... wow...... 

Thanksgiving 2016

Whew!!  What a wonderfully busy, fun, and family filled weekend we had!

 

More of Michaels New York family came!! It was SOOOO good to see them.  Actually, it's the first time in yearS that we were all together for Thanksgiving.  Probably the last time for us was when we lived in New York almost 16 years ago!

 

 

The beautiful table. 

 

Mr. Turkey Carver Michael

 

The day was wonderful outside - the kids swam for 1/2 of it!  HA!! 

The dog wanted to swim too.... BAD!!!!

 

HAAAAA he made it in!!!!

 

The day after Thanksgiving all the ladies went for mani/pedi and shopping fun.  All of the guys went golfing.

 

We had some time while we waited for the guys to make it back.  Here's my best gal!

 

Then the guys made it!  We took a quick picture of them....

 

They took a quick picture of us.

 

Then they were gone to finish up and head back.

 

My MIL and her sister!  Such good good good times!!!!!

Birthday Party #1

Mikayla got a horrible case of the stomach virus that has been going around.  She missed two days of school before Thanksgiving break.  (Boy did we pay the school workload price for that!  ouch) She slept for over 20 hours almost straight - poor thing really was sick!

So - because of this we had to shuffle her birthday party around.  We broke it into two days/weekends instead of all in one.

We were able to meet up with our local family group at Red Robin for a fun filled lunch!! We were loud - it was a LOT of fun!!!!

Thank you all for coming to celebrate with us!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Oh my.... my baby is officially 11 years old now!

 

We were driving to school when her "change" happened..... wow

 

Of course I had to update one of my latest obsessions...I love my lightbox like there's no tomorrow.....  

Mikayla got me to agree to let her open one of her gifts...the catch was it was my pick what she got to open, I'm saving the good stuff for tonight.

 

 

A few before school pictures!

 

 

 

 

 

It wasn't bright enough for pictures...... but rest assured I'll get some tonight!! 

 

Wow..... she's really 11 now.... THAT'S WEIRD!