Pumpkin Contest!

It's October Friends!
Quick Post... Have lots to share from Chris's bday but will do that after tonight, as we are having another little get together for him tonight ;)
I am having a contest on Facebook for all of my clients, friends, co-workers, etc etc and wanted to extend it to my blog followers too!!! It is going to be so fun...

 How fun right???
 So to enter and play... AND show off your Pumpkin decorating skills.... go to my Business Fan Pageand become a "Fan" and then once you get your cute pumpkin done... upload a pic to my page!! :)
 I am expecting some SUPER cute pumpkins from all you blogging ladies after our massive obsession with Pinterest and all the amazing Pumpkins on there! Here are some ideas... in case you need a little help ;)
 




    (This one is my fave I think!!!)    How fun is that?  Happy Pumpkin Decorating! :) Please feel free to pass along and share with your friends... October 28th is the last day to upload a photo on my fanpage so you've got some time!XO,

Birthday Post for Chris

Today is Chris's Birthday so I am doing a special Birthday Post just for him :)

CJ,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE! 

Before you get mad, I know you like to "approve" pictures of you before they go on the le bloggy, BUT today is a special occassion so you'll have to just move past it ha! <3

First, let's look at how cute you were when you were a little baby CJ :)

Awww... So Cute!! :)

I am so happy to celebrate your birthday and to start another year with you! You mean so much to me and when I was searching for some things to share today these are what I found that reminded me of you :)

You do all 5 of those things... plus so much more!

Thank you for being my best friend!

Thank you for being someone I look forward to being with and spending each day together.

Thank you for taking silly pictures for me just for the purpose of my little bloggy, when I know you really don't want too lol ....

Thank you for making teaching me to do new things, a little out of my comfort zone hahaha....

For being such a great dad.... I know how much you mean to the kids and how much they appreciate you!

You are a positive force in their lives and I know they love you so much, almost as much as you love them ;)

Thank you for all my yummy breakfasts you fix me all the time... you know I would starve without you! HA! And my cute little notes you make ;)

This one is super important... thank you for all the times you cuss, throw & provoke love, care for and spend time with our sweet angel because I know how much he means to you (and the real reason, you know how much he means to me ha)!

(Even if he does disrupt your sleeping by his antics)

And this is what Frankie wanted to get you for your birthday, but I had to tell him no...

A little baby hedgehog hahaha ;)

We love you...

and hope you have a great day...

And can't wait to spend many more years with you...

Until we look like this... :)

bahahahaha

Happy Birthday babe. Love you bunches.

XO, {Da}

How, Oh Pinteresting Monday (a day early ha)

Are you so proud of me? :)

This week not only am I not a day late... but I'm a day EARLY!
But selfishly because tomorrow is Chris's birthday!!! :) So I plan on doing a special bday post for him!

I've got some good ones to share today... :) 

What about this for Frankie's Halloween costume??

hahahahaha I think he would like it!

LOVE this!

I'm sure I could never do this on my own, but maybe Emily (aka assistant/bff ha) can because she is going to start hair tutorials on Youtube part time ;) Em, I can be your first example!

Cute Polyvore!

So comfy and cozy, yet chic and cute! I would probably pair with sparkly Toms instead  though, or maybe some Tory Burch fats ;) Not really a fan of the stripes.

Umm... Yummmmmyyyy!

Applesauce Cake with Caramel Glaze

Recipe CLICK HERE 

I want to try this for Thanksgiving this year :)

This room is beautiful but the initials over the bed pushed me over the edge!! Dying! Bananas! Love this!

Great idea! Cover a coffee can or something resembling that size and make a cute headband holder! I need this STAT and so do Ella & Ava for their room too!

Love these scarves from Marley Lilly. Have one but wanting every color! So great for Fall and great for a Christmas gift as well! 

I want this in a frame! For my office and house ha

Pearls are my favorite accessory, not even a question.

I will try this this week sometime... How great do these look? Gosh, all the glitter makes me SO happy!

Speaking of pearls, this iPhone case NEEDS TO BE MINE .... IF Sprint would get with the program and go ahead and say they are going to release the iPhone 5 and start carrying it haha! Sometime this year would be nice too! But seriously, how cute is that case??

I have no reason for posting this one... I think just this little girl is so adorable and so are the headbands :)

Any kitchen I have posted in the past and said was my favorite, this one trumps those ha!

I love every single thing about it (with the exception of the hardwood flooring, dark dark is my personal pref) but other than that I think everything else is beautiful, especially the ceiling! Love the mix of light and dark cabinets so much!

That's all folks!

Happy Pinteresting!

You can follow me on Pinterest HERE :)

Leave me a link to follow you back and I will!

Hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Celebrity Birthday Party Ideas

I love that the kids love to have parties!
I love to have a party for absolutely no reason, as long as there is a theme, it will be a good time!

For the girl's birthday party this year they decided they wanted to have a Celebrity Hollywood theme party... Ella came to me one day and said she was set on having a light up dance floor, I quickly repsonded "Hmm I think those are expensive plus I don't think you can rent those in Lexington, only like big cities" ... as I am fixing dinner she calls for me to come in the room and when I walk in, dang girl was on google and found 3 places in Lex that rent dance floors... bahahahahaha 3rd graders are smart these days!!!

At first I thought this may be a challenging task... celebrity theme... what would we do?
Then I found this website...
http://www.thisishollywood.com/
and this one...
http://www.windycitynovelties.com/

and of course my favorite store...

The party is a week from today... and here is what we've got so far :)

Every Celebrity Style Party needs a Red Carpet :)

So we will be turning the front of our garage door into a "Step and Repeat" with a Red Carpet in front of to walk and take pictures! So cute! However, of course you can't have a red carpet event without a REAL celeb to pose next to...

So here we have a lifesize cardboard cutout of the little Biebs himself :) bahahaha

The pics should be pretty good from the party, I am laughing just thinking about it!

And to go on either side of the Red Carpet...

Some lifesize tall Golden Globe Award Statues :)

These will line the driveway and have the guests names written on them :) 

Some Street Signs for outside!

And some caution tape with the VIP theme!

Just some other cut out decor that was like $5 so couldn't pass it up!

Cute Napkins...

Think we will just go black plates & stuff with these cute napkins!

I thought about all the fun events I've been to, and just how special you feel to have a VIP pass when you're out and about. So I found these online...

However... they were INSANE expensive... we needed like 30 or so and it was going to be way too much (insert Chris having a heart attack ha) so I decided, what the heck, we can make these, and they will be even cuter! Do you know how hard it is to find lanyards in Lexington?? I must have went to 10 places! Finally ordered them from Hobby Lobby and they were super duper cheap but look great and will do the job!

The girls and I cut out the cardstock paper, they put on all the stickers and glued the papers together, I hand wrote each one to be uniform... and here is what we ended up with...

This is about half of them.. still need to make the other half :)

The front of the passes!

and the back of the passes!

How cute are those??

(All supplies came from Hobby Lobby and stickers you can wait until scrapbook stuff goes 50% off!!)

I am so proud ha! Love them!

If you were a kid wouldn't you feel so special wearing this? Let's be honest, the adults will be wearing them too and feeling pretty fab ;)

For food I have no clue yet...  I haven't finalized the menu ;)

(did that sound like a wedding planner? lol)

Most importantly, as we all know, will be the cake!

I have found a few examples online that the girls liked... but I trust my girls at Confused Confections will do their thing and make it fabulous! If you have missed our previous cakes, CLICK HERE! :) To see an amazing cake for a 21st birthday they did CLICK HERE or to see the cutest UK Football Cake ever made, CLICK HERE!

Can't wait to show you how the actual party turns out! This will be a fun one I think!

I can't wait to pull it all together for the kids and see how much fun they have!!