Well, we had a good holiday! I hope everyone else did, too. Christmas Eve went better than expected with my family. We had low to no expectations (al-anon style!) so it wasn't hard to get over our bar, lol. Christmas was really great. My mom came over and we had breakfast together and opened gifts. Then Mike, Autumn and I lounged around all day and ( Read more... )

Looks like there will be a number of kids at the party. One baby. The rest will be between 5 and 12, I think. So, I believe I'll be bringing back two things that we have done at former parties--the media room and the kid room. We'll play movies in Mike's office and put a few chairs or sitting pillows in there--that can be for people either to get ( Read more... )

So I have my menu kind of planned because last year's was so successful. I changed a couple of things. Baked apples are new this year. I didn't like the hash brown casserole I made last year so it's gone. Do any of you have a good make ahead breakfast potato recipe? Even being able to make it the night before would be nice. Also, is there a kind of ( Read more... )

I'm trying to think of cute wording for our new year invites. I think I went through this last year and ended up not writing anything special. I want to think of something along the lines of having toasted in the new year and now we get the new year off to a perfect start surrounded by friends. Any ideas? There aren't many new year's brunch invites ( Read more... )

I just realized I need to get on the ball with christmas party plans. I'm still thinking that I'm going to have a sweet tooth party so it'd be in the afternoon or at night after dinner. I can't quite decide if I want to do a New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, or before Christmas party. New Year's Eve would be tough with Autumn. She's not old enough to ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about Christmas...I'm planning to buy some fabric and a pattern for a couple of gifts. Anyone have any fun Christmas projects or presents planned? I've searched some of my favorite blogs for ideas and nothing has really caught my eye so far. I'd like to get a decent start this year so I'm not bogged down like I was last year ( Read more... )

The cake! The lollipops! The monkeyness! Click here for it all.

I'm exhausted for some reason. This was one of the smallest parties we've ever had but I AM SO TIRED. lol. I'm so tired that I only did a half a post. But it's a start! To the family blog: click.

And I'm going to get back to the martial artist question eventually. I'm still sorting out some stuff in my head in terms of my training. I've been tired ( Read more... )

( ok, I lied, these are the old pics )

Well, I did a practice of Autumn's cake! It just looked so fun that I had to give it a whirl. I might do a different icing, one that can be smoother. I thought about trying fondant but I chickened out and just made fondant flowers. Kind of bad and non very creative fondant flowers, lol.

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