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December 20, 2012
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12 Days of Christmas Tradition Dec 20

Christmas art work. Okay, so it is not a tradition yet. This is our first year, but I plan to make it a tradition.

Ian isn’t as much into painting, coloring or drawing as some kids I know. He is too busy to sit down for that long. So when he does I like to make sure I capture it on film.

While at the craft store one day he found this wooden snowflake and ceramic snowman he wanted. My mom bought them for him and she let him paint them at her house.

Ian really likes to mix all his colors together in the painters tray before using them. Such lovely artwork.

Happy Painting

December 19, 2012
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12 Days of Christmas Tradition Dec. 19

Every year my mom hosts Gingerbread House Day. This day to decorate gingerbread houses has morphed into a friendly family competition with the building and decorating more than a dozen houses.

The competitive portion came about through my cousins. My aunt has a set of shelves that she would place the houses on each level with her favorite on the top shelf. The honor of “Top Shelf” is now coveted by all (even though she doesn’t take home all the houses).

This was Baby Sid’s first time, although he didn’t participate. Ian really got into the decorating this year.

Ian would have help with applying the frosting but the candy placement was all him. He was there when I put the houses together a couple of days before the event. He helped put together some houses so we were able to talk about decorating them, which helped to build the suspense.

It will be nice to see how his decorating skill progress over the years.

How many gingerbread houses do you build each year?

Happy Building & Decorating

The scrapbook pages were made using kits from JustSoScrappy

November 28, 2012
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My Little Man Mustache Baby Shower

Do you have a second baby shower when the next kid is the same gender as the first?

What is the proper protocol for baby showers? Who really cares? If you want one have one!

My sister threw my shower when I was pregnant the first time with my oldest son. When I was about six months pregnant with my second son she asked me about having another one. To which I replied, “I am not throwing it, so it is not up to me.”

She and my mom decided to have a shower-meet-the-new-baby-party after he was born. And naturally I was left to choose my own theme and make my own decorations.

I decided to do a Little Man with a Mustache theme. I liked all the mustache and tie stuff I have seen on Pinterest.

While this happened in Sept. I figured I should post about it while we are still in Movember since it was full of mustaches!

Here are some of the pictures from the party:

Our take home treats. I just love the “Before you mustache (must dash) please grab a treat” sign. I also made a couple of banners of mustaches and neck ties
“Wet your Whisker” for the lemonade punch
For the take home treats my sister made sugar cookies in the shape of mustaches. She even had to make a ‘cookie cutter’
I made little mustaches that we put on bendy straws for some sipping
My mom found these mustache stickers at Party City, so it is only fitting the man of the hour wear one.
A few outfits for my little man
I made this banner that said “Boy oh Boy” I saw a similar one here via Pinterest
My aunt made Sid’s cake, it was Kahlua cream! Can you say super YUMMM!! I love the onesies with neck ties
I also made some food tags and got the Keep Calm sign idea from the same blog as the banner. My sister made “Cigar” pretzels dipped in chocolate.

We all had a great time getting together and passing around the baby.

If you would like to learn more about Movember, or make a donation to help fight prostate cancer head to the Movember & Sons site.

March 25, 2012
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Happy Birthday Rock Star!

My little man finally turned 2! and what a big day it was.

He has always loved music, and we have always played it for him. When he was little he would quite down for Rock ‘N Roll, reggae, classical or anything with a beat. When he started to be able to move, he would move with the music. Then he began to dance, after that everything became a drum. He LOVED to drum, and this year he got some drums for Christmas.

When trying to figure out a birthday theme we decided on a Rock Star theme. In my previous post I uploaded what his invitations looked like. They were made to look like a concert poster and came with two concert tickets. I was very pleased with the results, and my work didn’t stop there.

I made the backstage passes for the people who came

Being as we are a family that lives off M&M candies, and it is one of Ian’s favorites. We ordered some personalized ones from My M&M. Which I am pretty sure we do for most every party.

I made the “Happy Birthday” and “Rock On” banners using the Sam Kit from Just So Scrappy, one of my favorite kit designers.