Keegan's Birthday Party! Oooh "Two"dles!

Keegan turned the big 2 this past week.  Time sure does fly when you are having fun!

My boy loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  He's starting to branch out more into different characters and things he likes but he still loves his Mickey so we chose that theme and ran with it. I couldn't have pulled it all together without Kara's (the famous Aunt Kiki) last minute, what felt like an all-nighter, help on this project.  We made more cupcakes then we knew what to do with and cut, stapled, taped, and glued our hearts away.

I ordered printables off of Etsy.  They were not personalized so they were pretty cheap and I was really pleased with how they came out.  We printed candy bar wrappers, treat bag holders, cupcake toppers, water bottle wrappers, napkin rings, and a sign.

His goodie bags for his friends were Mickey and Gang coloring sheets (free from Disney Junior online), 4-pack of crayons, Mickey pencil cases, and Hershey Bars.  Family Music Time provided demo CD's to the familes.

His actual party was at Family Music Time where he has his Saturday morning classes. He and 12 of his buddies, along with their parents, sang and danced and had a great time! We had some people over for dinner afterwards for lasagna.  It was a Great day and Keegan and our family are so blessed!

Keegan's Love, Avery!  She wore the Minnie outfit he gave her for her birthday ;-)

Mama (me) and the birthday boy!

Keegan's cousins Craig and Connor with his Aunt Katie!

 

***I have posted over 80 photos of the day on Facebook.***

Sabra House Party 11-10-12

www.houseparty.com is an awesome site!  You can sign up to try to host a promotional party for items.  If you get chosen, you get a package for free with various items depending on the House Party.

Earlier this year I had won a Huggies Potty Dance (pull-ups) House Party and a Lego House Party.  My friend won a Fisher-Price House Party and got over $300 in toys sent to her (cool, right?!).  I've had three other parties before this year too I think....

For the Sabra Hummus House Party, I got three coupons for free items up to $5.99 each, 13 dollar off coupons and also cards to go online and print up recipe books for the guests, an e-reader holder, a stylus pen, a bamboo serving spoon, and an apron. 

I got three HUGE tubs of hummus free from BJ's ($5.99 each so with the coupons, free). I also put out a bunch of other snack items and offered a pinterest inspired craft.

We made yarn wreaths. I supplied styrofoam wreath forms that Target had in their Dollar Days section (but I got 50-70% off!), a bunch of different yarn, and some embellishments.

 

Our "Vacation" Week - House and Ladies Guild updates

Jay had the first week of November off for his "vacation" week.  They assign the vacation time.  I took off Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of the same week.

We had plans, big plans.  First we wanted to tackle the garage.  It's not easy to maneuver around in there.  I have some appliances in there from the move that my dad was going to take.  6 months ago.  But I cannot blame the craziness on them alone.  It is so overwhelming.

We also wanted to finish hanging stuff and putting things away in Lauryn's room, organize the laundry room, and to complete our week, make a trip to Ikea on Friday.

Well, we got partially through with the garage.  Most of the way through actually.  Unfortunately, we did not grow up in the digital age.  Most of the "stuff"left to go through are the boxes and boxes of photos and memorabilia I have from childhood, along with scrapbook supplies, and yes, still the appliances.  We also have a lot of cameras to go through to sort what to sell, keep, and give away.  They are all non-digital but were really nice in their day.

I still need to organize the laundry room but I came up with the brilliant idea to use the nice fabric baskets I had in Keegan's nursery that are now replaced by bolder brighter colors.  Hopefully I will be able to post on that soon.  As for Lauryn's room, I was able to hang everything.  By. My. Self.  That was a huge feat as I normally make my dad come over and hang stuff in trade for pizza.  I do still have a huge box in the middle of her room but overall, a lot of progress.

These pictures are in progress.  I do not have any good before pictures - it was CRAZY.  The top picture has everything pulled out in the drive-way etc. 
The bottom picture is still in progress but it shows the piles we made.  The appliances are on the left and the majority of the middle is old photos etc we have to go through.  I will probably scan a lot of them.  I also want to do old school scrapbooking for those photos (which I love but have very little time for).  I plan to do digital scrapbooks mainly for the future.  I never thought I would convert to digital scrapbooks but time and money wins out.

 

Lauryn's room - minus the big "L" that will go above her headboard.  It's already painted and the last thing I need to hang. The first Picture is mid-way. I painted the picture frames and printed quotes to go in them.  I put a lot of thought in to the quotes so I was excited that LJ really loved the quotes in them.  I painted the missing "L" too, it's the darker pink with the lighter pink on the sides. It will go around the white frame above the headboard.

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday night was our monthly Ladies Guild meeting.  It was also time to put our names in for office. I am officially the new VP of Ladies Guild come January.  I am quite excited about it.  I do believe it is where I should be and I am surrounded by such an amazing group of women.  Now to make God proud :-)

 

Fall Fun (and Foolery)

This weekend was jam packed with fun and foolery - or at least it felt that way!  Our nephews spent Friday and Saturday night with us.  Take 3 individually (ok - one of them is actually relatively calm when alone) hyper little boys and put them together for nearly 48 hours and what do you get?  A tornado of activity!

Keegan could not contain his excitement that his cousins were over!

He even had a buddy to eat his beloved "bice" (rice) with:

There was lots of playing with cars and Legos, movie watching, coloring, and shrieking to fill the time!  The first night my younger nephew wasn't quite feeling being in unfamiliar surroundings and his crying woke Keegan up.  Then my nephew went back to sleep just fine, but Keegan did not want to sleep in his crib if his cousins were having a slumber party on his floor!  The problem was Keegan wanted to cuddle with his cousins (too cute) but they wanted to rest in peace.  So Keegan was up for about 4 hours in our bed kicking us, talking to us, climbing on us.... we were exhausted Saturday!

Saturday brought music class for Keegan where he could see his love Avery.  He was still quite cheeky and hyper!  My mom watched the boys for several hours so that Jay and I could nap while Keegan napped.  Then the insanity began all over again :-) 

After dinner I put Keegan down and (other than waking up briefly twice in the middle of the night - once being quite concerned for Nemo's daddy since he is super obsessed with Finding Nemo and especially Nemo's daddy) he slept through the night!  My nephews helped me as I started the crafting for Keegan's 2nd birthday party.

I had to cut all sorts of homemade Bakugan party favors for my nephews because the oldest nephew decided it was Big Mickey's (mouse that is - his favorite stuffed animal) birthday today. By the time they went to sleep, they slept through the night!  Score! I had told my nephews about the baby monitor so that they knew I could hear them and they would be safe.  Bright and early in the morning, my youngest nephew kept repeating in to the monitor "Aunt Keri, Keegan wants out. Aunt Keri, Keegan wants out."  Good looking out.


Today was church - thank you Jesus! Keegan stayed home with Jay while I went to service by myself today. It feels weird without my Keegan there but he's still kind of snotty.  I asked Jay to give Keegan a nebulizer treatment while I was gone. He's becoming an old pro:

 

 

Then this evening we decided to go to the pumpkin patch - it is THE pumpkin patch in Lehigh hehe...  The church at the corner of Leeland Heights and Richmond always has a pumpkin patch each year.  I've never gone, but always drive past it.  Last year Kara and I took Keegan to Lakes Park but he wasn't walking yet.  Not only is he walking this year, but he is running and in to everything too!  He had a blast!  It was so much fun to watch him chase around to find his beloved pumpkins!

 

 

 

 

To top off our evening, we went to Beef O'Brady's.  They are supposed to have some Oktoberfest type specials.  Jay had sausage.  Keegan and I had "normal" food ;-)  I did have a Sam Adam's Boston Lager beer which was fallesque.

 

Jay took in the football games while Keegan took in Disney Junior on my phone.  They were making the same expressions!  The pictures didn't quite catch that because Jay noticed I was going to take the photos so he started to smile.

 

I LOVE my men!  And I love fall!  I give God so much thanks for all of my many blessing! We topped off our night saying our prayers with Keegan - nothing sweeter than hearing him say "Our Father......"