My sisters {Born to ride} Baby Shower

Brittany is my little sister. Two years ago, when she was pregnant with her daughter, my sister-in-law and my mom and I threw her a baby shower. Jill and I flew out to California just for her shower...her water broke the morning we flew out there.

Here it is two years later, and we decided to throw her shower a little earlier this time to avoid the whole water-breaking-having-a-baby-shower-in-the-hospital thing. Unfortunately baby boy didn't get the memo, and her water broke three days before the shower.

Everything worked out fine in the end, her son Mason was a preemie, born at 34 weeks and after two weeks in nicu came home healthy and happy. So before my mom flew back home, we put on the baby shower a little later than intended, and with a special baby guest in attendance.

Brittany's husband rides dirtbikes, so it was only natural that we had a motorcycle themed baby shower.

I had so much fun with this shower, and the fact that it was done right around the fourth of July made the color scheme pretty easy!

We had some super fun and yummy motorcycle chocolate molds. These were a hit and my kids especially loved them. One of the perks/downfalls of being the hostess, you get to keep all the left over sweets at home. My kids love that part, my waistline, not so much.

How perfect was this sign that I found at hobby lobby? We'd actually already decided on the colors when I found it, so it was just meant to be!

The little guys stats from when he was born, he was a pretty big boy for only 34 weeks!

No laughing at this next photo, alright?

These are my very sad attempt at chocolate covered oreos. In case you can't tell, they're supposed to be wheels. The did not in any way turn out like I had pictured them in my head, but they still tasted great!

The dessert table, with some photos of the man of the hour. Such a sweet little guy!

I made some bags to take home sweets in. You have to make them nice and big so people can load them up with lots of goodies.

Mason's banner, made in the shape of the Harley-Davidson sign.

And some more decor for the party.

When you have a motorcycle themed shower, you have to have root beer and pretzels, chocolate covered of course.

This photo actually shows the wrapped nuggets, but the pretzels were on the other side.

My sister-in-law came up with a fun game of guessing the motorcycle throughout the years, it was way harder than I thought it would be. But those are some pretty cool looking bikes!

I took the pictures too early, and thus, none of the new mom. But she was beaming and happy to finally be home and relaxing with her new baby boy. He's a doll, and we love having him here!

Lemonade & Sunshine Party

So, now that schools ready to start back up in a week or so, I think I'll get around to posting about our super fun schools out for summer party! I am so very in love with pink and yellow, and I love throwing a fun party too. Put them together and all you need is an excuse to do a fun lemonade party.

I made some custom stickers so each child had a label on their drink, no mixing them up here!

These boxes were downloaded from twigs and thistles, I added the party circles on top for a little extra touch.

The party table was full of pink and yellow food, and most of them were lemon. I haden't tried most of the recipes before, but they were all pretty delicious, and have been used since.

A huge ol' jar of lemonade, what could be more perfect to kick off summer in Houston?

All the moms got their own mason jar, tied with fabric

Mini lemon cupcakes, and regular sized pink lemonade cupcakes...so very delicious!

All the kids in attendance had an amazing time, and kicked off summer on the perfect note.

Couldn't ask for more than that!

Camera strap slipcover

I've been seeing these super cute camera strap slipcovers all over blogland, and have wanted to try it out forever. My sister-in-law happened to have a birthday yesterday and it seemed like the perfect excuse to give it a try....so I did!:)

I'd love to post the tutorial, but I used someones to make this, and frankly, they did a great job! So, check out Angie over at nusery rythmes and sweet times for her camera strap tutorial, it's great!

I'm not the greatest seamstress, even though I pretend to be sometimes. But it's a simple gift, that I think may be going to most of my family and friends this year, gotta make all those girls and their camera straps stylish!

The Relief Society party

In the LDS church (aka Mormons) We celebrate the founding of our Womens organization, the Relief Society, every March. This is the second year I've got to help put together this little birthday party, and it is SOO much fun! It's alot of work, but totally worth it!

As usual, I made way more work or myself than I needed to, and made two cupcake stands. If you want all the directions on how I did this, go here.

I am loving these super cute and colorful cupcake stands, and they're WAY better covered in these gorgeous cupcakes that some of the other women made. (They tasted just as good as they looked too!)

Another one of the women made this beautiful picture as a centerpiece for our Hor d'oeuvre table. This was the theme for the evening, "Women of Worth". It was a beautiful celebration of the women in our ward.

I also made a fun pennant banner to hang behind the table, I love the extra color it added to the

beautiful (haha!) gym!:) I'm just glad it was way easier to make than I thought it would be!

Okay, lots of pictures of the cupcakes, and stand. What can I say, I love them!

The colors were all so bright and cheerful. It just made the evening more fun and it was so much fun to get to do all this with some truly incredible women!

The new Relief Society logo has "Faith. Family. Relief" printed underneath it, so we used that throughout the room too. This is truly what this organization is all about. What could be better than those three things?

It was a super fun evening, and I got to spend it with some of my favorite people, including my mom who happened to be in town for just a couple days!

Freebie Friday ~ Easter subway art

So, I'm jumping on the subway art bandwagon. I love some of them, and they make beautiful art for the holidays that easy to do, and oh so cute!!!

I haven't even had a chance to print it out and put it up, but I'm excited to use it with my new cupcake stands, they'll go together perfectly! I think I may see an easter party in the future!

So here's a little freebie for everyone to enjoy! Just click on the picture to take you to the download.

DIY cupcake stands

Sometimes, I think I may be a little over-the-top. We have an activity coming up at church, a birthday party, and I wanted it to be FUN! So, I decided that I should make some super cute cupcake stands. Like I know how to do that! But I decided to give it a go anyway.

For christmas my awesome parents got me a super cool bladerunner. It's a saw, and I was so excited! I hadn't pulled it out yet, and decided that this was as good a chance as any to figure out how to use it.

Turns out, circles are a little hard to cut out. I am nowhere near perfect, but they're in the general circle shape, so that should be good enough, right? Hey, I'm a novice, ya get what ya pay for!:)

After the circles are cut out, and you've made a trip to Lowes for the other wood pieces, (which were not cheap by the way, and considering I made two cupcake stands, it added up!), get to work spray painting. You'll also need to pick up some wood dollhouse shingles at hobby lobby and divide them up into however many colors you want.

Once everything's dry, get to work with the glue gun. I probably could have used something even more permanant, but I figured this way it would be easy to take apart if I want to change the colors later.

I did use gorilla glue for the middle pieces and the feet though, you want those to be nice and sturdy.

I was a little worried it would be too much color, and a little too festive, but I kinda love how they look!

I can't wait to see them all covered in cupcakes!

Bingory!

Ever heard of "BINGORY"? It's kind of a mix between bingo, and memory, and it's kinda fun for the kiddos. I had made some valentines bingory boards a few days ago, and thanks to the awesome weather we're having right now, we had lots of time to play.

I was going to print out the cards and the matching game pieces with a cute paper backing, and it would probably be good to laminate it too. But, we didn't have time to do that, the girls were getting fiesty, and mean, and driving me crazy! So, excuse the unfinished games!:)

Even Lexie got the hang of it, and had fun. She even won the first game!

Everything is more fun when there's candy involved too.

Please excuse the fact that we were all in our pajamas. We didn't leave the house today at all...you know, serious weather conditions. There was supposed to be snow, but all we got was ice...super fun for kids expecting to wake up to snow.

It's pretty simple to play. You cut out enough pieces to that you have one match for every piece on very kids game board. Does that make sense? If you have 4 kids playing, you'll need matching pieces for every one of their games. Then when they pick a card, they put a candy on the matching picture on their board. 

Simple as that, the first one to get four in a row wins!

 I only made 4 different boards, but the great thing about this game is that everyone could have the same board if you wanted them too. Because it all depends on what card they pick, it doesn't matter if their boards all match!

If you want to play bingory, go here for the free download!