Cookie Exchange Fail

I wont bore you with the details but I will share with you my latest adventure in dabbling in the domestics.
Huh...
Anyways.
Twas our annual Cookie Exchange Christmas Wrap party.
Many moons ago the party started off as a Christmas wrapping party. We would bring presents to one location and use each others wrapping paper and bows and wrap our gifts together. Later we added exchanging cookies into the mix. Then as the babes were born, one by one we stopped bringing our presents to wrap and just brought cookies. This year one person brought stuff to wrap and we just watched her wrap whilst we ate cookies. 
Looooooooooooooong story short, I wanted to make these:

I know I know...not a cookie. 

I ended up with this:

One of my "friends" was so offended she took one home in a separate container from the rest of her exchanged cookies so as not to contaminate the proper cookies. 

Eh. (Shoulder Shrug). I got to take home more cookies than everybody else. MERRY CHRISTMAS SUCKAS!!!

HO HO HO! 

A Very Berry Birthday

Em's Berry Birthday was this weekend. It was fun and thank the Lord that the heat wave broke the day of the party. She had fun, we had fun, the kids had fun.

A Berry Themed Birthday Party. A lot of recipes came from Pinterest

Berry Punch 

Berry Trifle

Em covers her ears when she is uncomfortable.

But she enjoys the treats

Singing!

Party Planning is exhausting, and everything is more exhausting when you are pregnant. I ended up getting really sick after the party, but since I am the only one that got sick I'm thinking it was pregnancy related and perhaps I had been overdoing it the past few weeks. This week I have been taking it pretty easy and the house reflects that :) I have so many different things I wanted to do when I knew I would have more time to do them and I havent checked a single thing off my list yet (except this blog post).

But I dont have plans for the rest of the summer except a few DIY projects, some Bible Studies and oh yeah preparing for our second kiddo.
There really isnt a lot of prep work in getting ready for the second baby. We have all the girl stuff we need. So really, Im just waiting, keeping busy and taking it easy all at the same time :)

Thats some Talent!

So my friend Chrissy is a pretty talented lady and has made some pretty cools cakes for her tot. I thought I would share some of her creations. 

"Henry asked for a BJ's cake for his birthday. For real."

"A red white and blue shield cake dressed all in white."

Captain America Party. Looking tough Henry!

"Captain America wishing Henry a happy birthday."

Do you make awesome cakes or throw awesome parties? Let me know, and I can feature you here!

  

Happy Birthday Emily!

So as promised here are some pics from Ems first Birthday.
I did an owl theme and it turned out as well as I had hoped.
        
I made cupcake liners and a “chandelier” type thingy that Husband didn’t get any pics of. The cake fell apart out of the pan and I glued it back with icing…it was for smooshing anyway! I found the little hair clip on Etsy as well as the iron-on sticker. Husband chose the little yellow-flower tutu. We had 3 wardrobe changes and a lot of fun. Im still tired from it all.