Birthday Party Success!

Gracie's 3rd birthday party was a blast. Not only did almost everyone we invited (with the exception of her daycare friend Neva!) show up, we had a full house of overnight guests (including Grandma & Grandpa), but we also had the most wonderful summer-like weather you can imagine.

My mom, (thank you so much!) and the rest of the ladies in the house were fabulous with helping make things happen in the kitchen. I had my hands full with trying to get together the cupcakes, the cheese platter, the fruit platter and much, much more... I could not have done it without them. My sister's boyfriend Brian put together this fabulous cupcake tree I found at Tar-get, love that store. And I had gone bonkers buying pretty much anything with Backyardigans theme on eBay. Hence the balloons, party hats, cupcake decorations, plates, napkins, party favors, kites and much more...

The kids had a blast running through the fields chasing Grace's new John Deere four wheeler, playing ball, opening the pinata, eating candy and cupcakes (Thanks Carly, the icing was a hit!), painting canvases from Treasury of Memories, flying kites and just being kids. What a great party...

I am exhausted...

after a long, long weekend of guests, cropping, working and going to the gym my body is telling me to take it easy...

I think I better listen, cause I don't want to get sick before heading off to Nashville on Sunday...

Today at work I completed my first kit to sell at the store. It's pretty exciting but also very gruelling as I had to complete the instruction sheet. I labored over it and think I did a pretty good job. We'll see how many ladies call and ask for clarification. LOL

Anyway here is a sneak peek at it:

It comes in baby boy or girl or a family option. Does anyone want me to bring one of these puppies to Nashville? They make great gifts!

Proof!

Today has been kind of strange. I am still tired and sluggish from the all night charity crop on Friday. I did manage to get a nap in yesterday and also today, but with the company at our house and two really, really (no I mean REALLY!) noisy boys it's hard to feel better and beat the headache I've been fighting all afternoon.

Anyway, the boys (that means everyone except Grace and myself) went skiing/snowboarding this morning and got back around 4 PM. So Martin, who loves to have a lot of people around, (not so much the noisy ones though!) invited our friend Jon over who is bringing another 5 kids. ARGH! So much for a quiet day to prep for next weekend's birthday party... I've been frantically buying stuff on eBay and online stores. I sure hope that it'll get here for the weekend.

Anyway, I digress... Proof of what you ask....that we have a cat and a dog. The illusive dog has not been around for months now, preferring the neighbors house to ours apparently. But today out of the blue he shows up at our front door. So Rudy has been enjoying a good belly scratching and quite a bit of attention. Maybe he'll stick around this time...?

Our new cat finally has a name too. I perused numerous websites on clever and meaningful names and one just really stuck with me...so it's going to be Indigo with Indie for short. I kind of like the Indiana Jones reference. LOL I felt kind of pressured to come up with something before I left for Nashville next weekend so that whatever the boys and grace came up with didn't stick. Especially since Grace went through a short period where she called the kitty "Little Pablo". Not so much my favorite....

New Family Addition!

We adopted a kitty on the weekend and are still looking for suggestions for names. It's a he and he's mainly white/gray with some tabby markings on his legs and head. His eyes are a really pretty light shade of blue.

Any ideas and comments are appreciated as I really don't want Grace's nickname to stick. She goes around the house calling for her "little Pablo". LOL