CAlling All Superheros!!!

This past weekend we celebrated Fisher's 4th birthday!
We had a SUPER time and made lots of fun memories...





















I can't believe he is already 4! He is such a blessing to us and we love him so much!

I got the printables from HERE
and some of the ideas from HERE!
ENJOY!

Grace's fairy Garden PArty!

In May we had the joy of celebrating our Grace's 5th birthday! Of course,

it had to be a Tinkerbelle party...

I somewhat struggle with going straight to the normal Tinkerbelle stuff, so I came up with some of my own stuff...

Here are a ton of pics from the party...

I tried to "keep it simple", but really it did take a lot of work and preparation.

Super Bowl Finale!!!!

Ok... So after all the hard work and endless cleaning, the party came and went...

We had a great time and here are some of the final decorations.

(There is no food on the table because it was a potluck dinner.)

I made cute labels for all the food and came up with a color-coordinating

center piece that smelled delightful!

ENJOY!

I think the center-piece was my favorite part!

The cupcake stand worked out great! It can easily be altered to go with another party too...

And as always, it was much more fun to put up then to take down... still not quite all the way down yet :) But, hey why rush...

Super Bowl Party Part 1

We have volunteered to host the Super Bowl Party this year for our small group...

So, in true Laura fashion I could not just have a simple, easy party...

(that would make way to much sense!)

My first project is the table cloth:

First I gathered all of my supplies:

3 yards of green felt

scissors

iron-on numbers

white ribbon

double sided tape

After I got everything together, I laid my felt onto the table and made everything even.

I cut the ribbon into 5 even strips.

Next I laid the ribbon onto the felt and figured out where I wanted it.

( I only did 5 lines, to cut down on the cost of all the iron on numbers)

I got my double-sided tape and put strips onto the ribbon and then turned it over and pushed it down into place.

I took my numbers and figured out how I could use the most, so I did not have to buy another package, placed them where I wanted them and ironed them down... easy-peasy!

I will show the completed table cloth when I am done with everything...

Lighning McQueen Cake!

For Fisher's 3rd Birthday I decided I would be a little ambitious, and try to make a McQeen cake. If you have a boy in the age range of 2-5 you know the obsession of Lightning McQueen, that I am talking about, we joke that that movie is why Fish can talk, because it is the majority of his vocabulary. Today he even cried until I agreed to let him sleep in his Lightning McQueen shoes (which of course was a gift from Grandma, bc I don't do the whole character clothing thing), anyway, I had great plans for some red fondant icing and even made it yesterday so that I could be prepared for today. Well apparently it gets really hard and unusable if you let it sit over night. I did not know this and had to chunk it this morning...

So I went with plan "B" and had to use buttercream which turned out pretty good. Sorry about the lack of pics...
I started with a regular yellow cake mix, whipped that up and put it in the oven. Then I cut it into three sections, in a t shape. I put the two bigger pieces on top of eachother to make the base of the cake and then I put the smaller piece on top of that to make the eyes. Then I kind of just took a McQeen car that I had and shaped the cake to look like the car. After that I iced it and called it a day. Its not perfect, but it looked good enough for Fisher who was so excited to have a "cars" cake!

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