Sissy Bear's 1st Birthday!!

(That's the princess bear on her actually birthday with her royal guards, Sydney and Sadie, at her side!)

 



Our baby bear is finally 1!  The year seems like it has flown by.  So much has happened through the year and we are so grateful just to be alive and healthy!  Delaney has earned the nickname of bear throughout her first year of life so I figured why not a bear theme for her 1st birthday!  The nickname is because sometimes she is a honey bear or a sugar bear and sometimes she is a grizzly bear...hahahaha!  I made her little cupcakes that her brother bear helped decorate!  We used teddy grahams on some and then made paw prints on others.  We used peppermint patties and junior mints to do this!  Here they are:

We also made bear snack mix.  It had teddy grahams (honey and chocolate chip), mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, and honeycomb cereal.

Everything was pretty much pink, white, and purple, of course because she is a girl!  Her cake was a bear face I made.  I melted Hershey kisses down and made the nose and eyes with them.  I had it all finished when brother bear told me it needed something.  It was the bow!

 

 

Her birthday outfit was a tutu I made on whim the night before!  I had bought the bear hugs shirt at a garage sale for a $1 and couldn't pass it up and not have her wear it!

Here is our sissy bear!

 

That's me, brother bear, and sissy bear!

 

 

 

Woodland Baby Mobile

 

I looked and looked and looked for a gift for a very good friend for her baby shower.  She is the one we held the shower for in the woodland animal theme.  I found all of these felt animals on pinterest and thought for sure this is something I could do.  I took a swing at it and this is what I ended up with!

 

I made all of the animals out of felt.  I stuffed and handstiched them.  I also added a little glue behind things such as the owl's wings or the deer's face or the tree's dots.

 

 

THE WOODLAND BABY SHOWER

 

WOWZA!!!  What a baby shower!  We all pulled together greatly, coming from all different locations with our tasks....it was AWESOME!!!  One had the games, one had the food/cake, and my BFF and I got the luxury of invites/decor.  I took sooooo many pics of everything that we did, that I pretty much forgot to take pics of the people that came.  I am sure it was because I needed to document all of the hard work we put into everything!

Angry owl treat bag

Silly owl treat bag

 

Woodland snack mix

*this was in all of the treat bags too*

(teddy grahams-chocolate chip and honey, chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, cheerios)

Party favors

*blow pops with labels that read "look who is ready to POP"*

Our baby Quinn banner we made

*after the party we hung it over the crib*

Everything was green and yellow, even though Quinn was a girl, momma thought she wasn't going to subject her baby girl to pink

hahahaha....that didn't happen when it came to gifts!

Her "Q" spice cake

And her Woodland mushroom cupcakes

*white chocolate chips upside down*

 

Happy 40th my friend!

 

This should have been posted months ago, but so many things have happened that I never got the chance!  I saw all of these ideas on Pinterest with a jar full full of bubblegum saying "50 blows" and then a box of suckers saying "50 sucks" and I just decided to combine the two.  It was a very good friends birthday and she was turning the big 4-0!  The day of her birthday my son become very ill and was hospitalized and I never got the chance to give this to her that day.  Needless to say she did get it eventually....

 

I filled the inside of the jar with bubblegum, dum dum suckers, and blow pops.  I put a piece of fabric under the screw on lid and decorated the jar with some scrapbooking paper and stickers.  (I lost two of my "S" stickers in transport and had to use a marker to fill in for them) 

 

My family keychain

My little family keychain!

The first penny is the year my husband and I met, then the year our first child was born, the year we got married, and the year our last child was born.



Baby feet! Baby feet! Baby feet!

Seriously....who could resist how cute these feet are!?!  Especially when you add the little flower baby booties!!  I whipped these up in about a half hour on a Saturday morning and everyone loved them!  Here is the link that I followed http://icandabble.blogspot.com/2011/08/diy-barefoot-baby-bloom-booties.html. 

AS YOU CAN TELL, DELANEY LIKED THEM TOO!!

Found a new love

I THINK I MAY BE IN LOVE.....and they were soooo easy to use!

End of the school year...

Bode has made it through his first year of school....he tells me almost daily that he is now a first grader!  We put together buckets for his teacher and one for the aid in his classroom.  We made some bookmarks out of paperclips for them.

We also made magnets out of clothes pins.  His teacher's name was Ms. B, that is why half of the items were decorated in bee paper.

We wrapped note pads in the matching card stock, highlighters, pens, and other little useful items for them.  The pic at the very top show the finished buckets.  There was also the small hand sanitizer from Bath & Body Works attached to the handle of each bucket.

I'll love you forever.....

Decided it was time to get that tatto for my children....Bode and I love to read the book I'll Love You Forever....so here it is for Bode and Delaney....as long as i'm living my baby you'll be

Teacher Appreciation Week

I found the base of my idea here http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/04/22/appreciation-7-days-a-week/, but I decided to change it up a little bit.  I bought treat bags (wanted clear but ended up with green because the clear was all gone).  I also got all of the supplies to go along with it.  Here is my list:

Thumbtacks
Paperclips
Post-it notes
Cans of soda
Mints

I went through and basically picked out five things to pass out, one for each day of the week.  My son and I split everything up and put it in the baggies.  This is what we ended up with!  There is a bag for his teacher and his class's aid for each day of school for the week.  We also made a bag for his gym, art, music, and library teacher (the specials teachers).  For example, Monday is art so the art teacher, his aide, and his teacher all get the same treat bag.  On Wednesday, his aid, teacher, and library teacher get the same bag.  No specials on Tuesday, hope this makes sense!  I typed out my own tags and printed them on cardstock.  I asked my son what were things that he liked about his teacher, the aid, and then each special teacher.  I wrote this on the back of each tag and had him write his name also.  So everyday they get a little gift with something that a student likes about them!