Felt circles banner

 I had seen this somewhere and thought if was really cute, and very simple.

 I had some of Zoe's favorite colors (and the colors of her room) of felt and decided this would make a fun accent in her room.

It turned out really fun and whimsical. The color in this picture is not true. It is orange, hot pink, and light pink. Her walls are Spring Green.

Birthday Banner (girl version)

Since Zoe's birthday was coming up, I decided I needed to make a girl version of this boy birthday banner that we have enjoyed having up around the boy's birthdays. It makes the house feel festive and fun. Not the greatest picture, but you get the idea.

Crochet Baby Boots

 I saw these on Pinterest and knew I HAD to get the pattern. What baby girl should NOT wear these? There are SO many babies being born in my life this year, specifically baby girls (not to gloss over the sweet baby boys, but for the sake of the post, I don't think they would be interested). Some dear friends adopted a sweet baby girl (Samara) this week (and has already received a pair with pink buttons, I will see if I can get a pic of her wearing them). My wonderful childhood friend had a girl this week (Finley). My dear sister-in-law could be having a baby girl at any moment!!!! Here is my question. Could a baby living in Hawaii or Texas even use boots like these?

So adorable! (Thank you for overlooking my annoying use of parenthesis and CAPS in this post).

Lego Party- Pinata!

 I will add on a step by step tutorial on how to make this Lego head pinata in another post.
Have I killed the Lego theme by now? I saw this great idea for a Lego head pinata (which is what Liam requested). I liked the scared face. He is about to get his brains knocked out!

 Liam was so excited about it. Again, I got some video of the boys hitting the pinata, but they aren't very good. Note to self: next time take stills of the pinata slaughter. The funnest image would be the candy all flying through the air, but you never know when it will happen. That is why it is so fun!

The bottom broke off. Travis sporting the Lego look.

Lego Party- Cake and Decorations

 Cake and Decorations are my least favorite aspect of party planning. I love baking. I love decorating. For some reason they always stress me out the most. I think it is because I have unrealistic expectations that I am unable to make happen.
I found a couple of super cute ideas for Lego themed cakes here and here but knew there was no way I could pull them off. So, it doesn't matter what I had planned, this is what happened. I was trying to get my cake out of the pan to cool. It slipped out and landed on the counter in pieces. I got it put back in as best I could. But this is what I had to work with:

 I decided to cut squares out of the usable parts and turn them into "cupcakes".

 Then I surrounded them with chocolate Lego bricks. Piped some colorful frosing on them.

 Put some chocolate minifigures on top and some candles and Happy Birthday skewers.

At least they tasted good and the boys were thrilled. They played with the minifigures and built with the chocolate bricks. So I am happy with it, even if it wasn't the original plan.

I won't even include a picture of decorations. Streamers and balloons. You could tell it was a party.

Lego Party-Games

When the kids got here they just jumped on the trampoline for the first twenty minutes which was fine with me. Boys sometimes scare me with the amount of energy they have.
The first game we had planned was one that I ALWAYS played at my birthday parties growing up. Each person gets a name pinned onto their back that they don't know what it is. Then you ask questions to find out who "you" are. I did Lego characters. They had fun doing it.
We did a Guess How Many Legos game where they have to guess how many Legos (did you figure that part out?) in a jar.
Next, we did a Design your Own Minifigure game. I had drawn a blank Lego Minifigure with Sharpie and made copies. I didn't know if they would enjoy this as much as Liam and I did, but they were really excited about it and so creative! They stuck with it longer than I thought they would. Some of the boys were so careful about their designs. They all turned out really great and funny.

I borrowed the Lego game Creationary from a friend and we played a bit of that. Then after gifts and cake (another post) the boys started the Lego movie, Clutch Powers. I thought that since the party was 3 hours long that they wouldn't mind some down time.

After watching some of the movie we went on a treasure hunt. Another tradition from my growing up party days. I did pictoral clues. Every boy got a chance to find a clue. I did take some videos but it is just of a bunch of boys running from place to place. Nothing is quite as fun watching the excitement they feel trying to find a treasure, which in this case, was the pinata (hidden in the dryer).

Lego party-Goody bags

Filled these little babies with Lego soap, Lego gummies, and Lego chocolates. Also they put their pinata candy and other things (prizes, drawings) in them.
Just Sharpie on Dollar Store yellow bags.