My son was invited to a friends birthday. They are both teenagers and wasn’t sure what to give to a teen as a gift. However when his mom told me he loved Minecraft (as do both my children) I knew exactly what to do. I purchased a shirt at Micheal’s crafts in a lime green. …
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I have seen various plays on this type of basket all over the internet. I did one similar last year – SEE PHOTO HERE But I wanted to make it more personable and I had alot of cute things on hand to incorporate into it. All the really cute things I put into the BERRY…
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Last night was our Blue & Gold Banquet for our Cub Scouts Since I am the Pack Committee Chair I wanted to do Western theme and all the parents were up for that. It was a great night. One of my favorite Blue & Golds. This is my 5th year planning it and executing…
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This summer my kidlets have enjoyed taking Wilton Cake Decorating Classes from Jo-Ann’s Crafts. Their 1st class was on a round cake- butter cream. Making and learning how to do a cupcake on the top of their cakes and decorations. They had a wonderful time. And they were SOO PROUD!! 2nd class- my kidlets took…
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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of VTechKids. All opinions are 100% mine. My 3 yr old nephew got 2 of the new Switch & Go Dino’s by Vtech. Horns the Triceratops and Sliver the T-Rex He was so intrigued by them. We couldn’t get them out of the packaging fast…
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We went to a Wedding this week. I was ill prepared with what to do with my daughters thick mane of hair she has. The wedding was on the beach here in FL and we were in the temperatures of 90 + I had a rubber band, 1 flower clip and a brush. That was…
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I am behind posting this. However we did conference with our kids along with another family. So really in total we just had 4. Ranging in ages 3-12. We haven’t ever really had our kiddos watch conference and we want to change that. So we decided to have a conference party. That got the younger…
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March 14th aka 3/14 is Pi Day π = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 I also know Pi is ROUND however I didn’t have time to make a pie for dessert tonight for my kids. So I got the next best thing. A McDonald’s apple pie. Decided to make a little slip cover to go around it to celebrate…
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Again – I apologize for the iphone photos. We were still unpacking into the new house we moved into. But again- never will we miss a chance to party Mardi Gras was alot of fun. We got to teach our kids what it meant and what Fat Tuesday is. We also got to try some…
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We changed things up a little bit from last year. It wouldn’t be fun to do it exactly as last year. (FOUND HERE) Will start with the dinner. - Green Eggs & Smoked/Cooked Ham – Lorax Grits (yes I made that up but its yellow/cheese grits), Cat in the Hat fruit skewers. Decorations were easy–…
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Today is Dr. Seuss birthday We always celebrate and my daughter insisted she dress up for the occasion for school. She was super excited. Tonight we will have our festive dinner and celebration. I am also the room mom I will be delivering some fun “Thing 1 & Thing 2″ cupcakes to her…
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Last and final post. This post will cover the GAME/ACTIVITY portion of the banquet. Mentioned before in previous posts- we stacked up moving boxes for the game. We used 10 dodge balls. 5 green 5 red. We found them cheaply at Walmart. We use dodgeball all the time for scouts so they will be used…
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Any excuse to dress up the table and have a fancier/funner (is that a word?) dinner– I am all on it! I love my Silhouette machine. I use it all the time to cut out things in a snap. For this dinner I used it for the Frog Bags, Lily Pads & Flower place mat…
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My daughter is going to take this fun little gift to her classmates. Nothing over the top- but something to celebrate the day. After all it only happens every 4 years I got a bag of 8 frogs for 1.00 at my local dollar store Bagged them up added a cute topper on it Ready…
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Decorations were the easiest at this banquet. Since we had just moved 3 weeks prior to this event- I needed this to be a VERY simple event. However, it turned out to be one of our best ones yet. Even better! Lots and Lots of moving boxes came in handy Stacked them up high, and…
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