She is a heartbreaker!
Christmas 2025
7 months ago
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Two nights in a row!
This is our second night in the ER with this little princess! She has been spiking fevers as high as 105.5! After checking ears, a throat culture, a urine sample (you know how they get that from a baby? Not fun poor girl!) blood tests and an x-ray they think there might be an infection in her lungs but the Dr. and the radiologist don't agree! I just hope we can get this girl better!
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Ahoy me mateys!
I have never done a birthday party for my kids before and decided that 5 was a good time to start. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun. After several tries to get Turner to pick a theme, I decided for him. We did a pirate theme and there was so much that I could have done with this! There is an overload of pictures so beware! I don't know why we didn't get a picture of the invitations but somehow we skipped that. But here are the files: 
I printed it on onion skin typing paper and burned the edges. Then we rolled it up and put it inside a root beer bottle. It was tall enough to poke out of the tip and little which is what I wanted so that they could get it out.
I printed these on labels to put on the outside of the bottle. We had a lot of fun delivering them and it got us very excited for the day of the party!!
So as most know by now, I love freezer paper shirts. So I copied my sister who also threw a pirate party for her 5 year old and did a shirt almost exactly like the one she did... okay it may be exactly like the one she did. I think the graphic is even the same BUT I did pick that out off the computer before I ever decided to do the shirts. But then again you have to realize that we have often times picked out the same material for completely different projects! Side note: My mom and aunt use to do the same thing!
Well, I couldn't stop with just the birthday boy so I made one for his brother... brothers... okay and his sister also! She even got a matching flower (and her paint had sparkles in it.)
In case you didn't know this about my husband, he is an artist and very creative. When I told him that I wanted to do a pirate party he volunteered to build a ship for them out of a refrigerator box. I had one thing in mind... his was much grander! His mom, whom is also an artist, made an awesome pirate flag to hoist up the mast.
Yes there is even a door the opens and a cannon made out of oatmeal containers!
I have wanted to make a birthday banner for a long time for my little family. It was a nice coincidence that when I raided my fabric stash, the majority of my fabric was black, white, and red... the colors of the party! Now I am not remaking another one to match other parties- we are stuck with this one for a while.
In my ward (church congregation) we have a swap often where people bring things that they no longer want and we can take anything. Whatever is left over gets donated to charity. Last month this ship happened to be there and I was so excited! It was the perfect center piece for the party.
When the kids arrived we dressed them all up like pirates! Complete with a sword, eye patch, pirate ring, gold and silver necklaces for the girls, scarfs, sashes, and a skull and cross bones ring! Here we have all hands on deck for a high adventure!
First things first, we had sword fights on the plank!
Then we had an epic sea battle. Our cannon fire sunk the enemy ship!
The object was to punch out (the pre-cut) holes in the ship to sink it! The reward? Cake and ice cream.
Did I already mention that my mother-in-law is an artist? I showed her a picture of the cake that I was going to do and she decided that instead of plastic toy pirates that she would paint me some adorable clothes pin pirates to go on the cake! They were so adorable and added so much!
My husband also decided that I couldn't have paper sails for the ship so he made me one out of muslin a skewer and a small dowel.
I happened to find some really cool pirate candles at a party store and they were the perfect touch for this cake!
The captain's hat, sword, skull, treasure chest and parrot were the candles... I really like how it turned out!
After cake and ice cream we went on a treasure hunt. I wrote some great clues but I think my poetry skills were lost on the 3-6 year old crowd. They tore through it at record pace! At the end of the clues they found a treasure map.
The treasure map let to a treasure chest (pinata)
Of course all the excitement wore him right out! Who else could be surrounded by 12 little kids and fall right asleep?
Overall I think that fun was had by all. I learned that two hours is probably a little long for a party for kids this age and that it is impossible to invite everyone that you want to! But overall I loved doing it and can't wait for the next one! In fact Josh was thinking about things that he wanted to make out of cardboard and so the next one might be a knight theme, complete with a castle!
I printed it on onion skin typing paper and burned the edges. Then we rolled it up and put it inside a root beer bottle. It was tall enough to poke out of the tip and little which is what I wanted so that they could get it out.
I printed these on labels to put on the outside of the bottle. We had a lot of fun delivering them and it got us very excited for the day of the party!!
So as most know by now, I love freezer paper shirts. So I copied my sister who also threw a pirate party for her 5 year old and did a shirt almost exactly like the one she did... okay it may be exactly like the one she did. I think the graphic is even the same BUT I did pick that out off the computer before I ever decided to do the shirts. But then again you have to realize that we have often times picked out the same material for completely different projects! Side note: My mom and aunt use to do the same thing!
Well, I couldn't stop with just the birthday boy so I made one for his brother... brothers... okay and his sister also! She even got a matching flower (and her paint had sparkles in it.)
In case you didn't know this about my husband, he is an artist and very creative. When I told him that I wanted to do a pirate party he volunteered to build a ship for them out of a refrigerator box. I had one thing in mind... his was much grander! His mom, whom is also an artist, made an awesome pirate flag to hoist up the mast.
Yes there is even a door the opens and a cannon made out of oatmeal containers!
I have wanted to make a birthday banner for a long time for my little family. It was a nice coincidence that when I raided my fabric stash, the majority of my fabric was black, white, and red... the colors of the party! Now I am not remaking another one to match other parties- we are stuck with this one for a while.
In my ward (church congregation) we have a swap often where people bring things that they no longer want and we can take anything. Whatever is left over gets donated to charity. Last month this ship happened to be there and I was so excited! It was the perfect center piece for the party.
When the kids arrived we dressed them all up like pirates! Complete with a sword, eye patch, pirate ring, gold and silver necklaces for the girls, scarfs, sashes, and a skull and cross bones ring! Here we have all hands on deck for a high adventure!
First things first, we had sword fights on the plank!
Then we had an epic sea battle. Our cannon fire sunk the enemy ship!
The object was to punch out (the pre-cut) holes in the ship to sink it! The reward? Cake and ice cream.
Did I already mention that my mother-in-law is an artist? I showed her a picture of the cake that I was going to do and she decided that instead of plastic toy pirates that she would paint me some adorable clothes pin pirates to go on the cake! They were so adorable and added so much!
My husband also decided that I couldn't have paper sails for the ship so he made me one out of muslin a skewer and a small dowel.
I happened to find some really cool pirate candles at a party store and they were the perfect touch for this cake!
The captain's hat, sword, skull, treasure chest and parrot were the candles... I really like how it turned out!
After cake and ice cream we went on a treasure hunt. I wrote some great clues but I think my poetry skills were lost on the 3-6 year old crowd. They tore through it at record pace! At the end of the clues they found a treasure map.
The treasure map let to a treasure chest (pinata)
I have never seen kids be this polite when it comes to a pinata. There was no pushing, crying or anything! I was very impressed!
We opened presents. He got lots of great loot!
My father-in-law stepping in for the captain!
We opened presents. He got lots of great loot!
My father-in-law stepping in for the captain!
Overall I think that fun was had by all. I learned that two hours is probably a little long for a party for kids this age and that it is impossible to invite everyone that you want to! But overall I loved doing it and can't wait for the next one! In fact Josh was thinking about things that he wanted to make out of cardboard and so the next one might be a knight theme, complete with a castle!
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