Past year's birthdays

I'm finally getting caught up on some pages - I always start with Birthdays. It's been a crazy fall and winter so I love when I get a few minutes to create and look at pictures of my kiddos! I love them!!

 

Tess Party Pages

 Now that Girl's Camp is over for the year, I have time to catch up on scrapbook pages. I know I posted pics from this party, but now I'm official finished documenting the day :)

Tess is 12

 I can't believe my baby is 12!  One more year until TeenLand! I will post more about it when I actually scrapbook the pages, but until then - these few pics will have to do.  Tess wanted a tropical swim party - it was a little cool so we heated the pool for the first time. The girls had a great time and were super cute! We ended up doing a youtube video of the Harlem Shake :)

The invitation 

Party table and setting :)

  The goodies bags with candies, "Party Animal" hand sanitizer (with a doggie, of course!), nail polish, flipflop keychain, etc.

 The girls warming up in the hot tub - we filled about 200 water balloons!

Birthday catch up

When it rains, it pours - in regards to my posts ;)  I finally got this scrapped - whew! I've got to get caught up before Girl's Camp craziness starts! 

Marisa is 18!

It's been such a crazy busy summer! Two out of three kids are back in school. I'll be taking Marisa up to college this week - It's hard to believe! Here's just one of the many fun events from the summer - I'll eventually get them all scrapped and posted :)

Tess' birthday pages

I've already posted about her party but wanted to put the finished pages here. It was a really fun party :)

Tess and The Lorax

Tess is turning 11!! Her actual birthday isn't for a couple of weeks but it always falls during Spring Break. So we have to try to get friends to a party while they're all still in town :)  This year she wanted to see Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" movie badly. So we themed the party around that and took all the girls to see the movie. It was really cute and we had a great time. The girls had so much fun and after we got home from the movie, they played tag in the house with the lights off - it was so funny listening to them and all their shrieks! Thankfully my sister is in town and helped me out since the rest of my family ended up at sporting events they were in!

The invite I made up and sent out to the party guests:

These were all the goodies they got in a backpack to take to the movies

 The thank you goodie bags that went home with the girls

The table setting for the girls. We had dinner before heading off to the movie :)

My Fab Bday (Michelle style!)

I had a birthday recently and just wanted to post about what my dearest friend, Michelle, did for me. On that day, I received a box from her in Utah that stated Marisa knew what to do with everything. So I waited until Marisa got home that evening to open it.  I actually had taken a very late nap and got up around 7:00 pm to this super fun "Birthday Party in a Box" that Michelle had made.  What a cute surprise everything was!

 Look at this garland she sewed for me - she ruffled yards and yards of three colors of streamers together - she's amazingly crazy with all her projects - I love it!

 Then she made me a fancy birthday hat of zebra fabric, plumes of feathers and flowers! I'm having Ryan model for me since I had just woken up and being a year older - it wasn't a pretty sight ;)

Michelle had packed in zebra balloons, cute plates, napkins, "J" cupcake pics, confetti shred, and all sorts of goodies.  She also made me the cutest apron from a tea towel with owls on it and added ruffles and rustic lace - so cute!  Marisa went and bought my favorite cake at Cheesecake Factory and had that there too - yum!

It started as a not so fun day but ended great - thanks Michelle - Love you! (and my cute family too :)

Birthday Party!!

Tess had her 10th Birthday party on Saturday. It was a couple weeks after her actual birthday but we were waiting for the movie "HOP" to come out. We made backpacks of goodies for all the girls with their names on them. The girls wore bunny ears to the movie and had a really fun time - they loved the movie (especially Phil, the chick)!

Little Love

My Little Love is 10 today! Seriously - the time goes faster each day. Tess was our only baby born in Texas and she loves that fact. She has been our "Little Love" since that beautiful day 10 years ago. Wasn't she scrumptious?! Little cinnamon roll legs and arms - deliciousness!

We love you Tessie!

Tess with her birthday gifts & stuffed animals

(one of these is not like the other - can you find Lacie??)

Sweet 16!

Marisa turned Sweet 16!!

She had a cute party with about 25 school friends and a few from her previous hometown. 

Look at this cake her friends, Devin & Allie, (above) made her - so super cute!!

Marisa with Paige and Cayley
They've been friends since Kindergarten :)

We made an ice cream sundae toppings bar...yum!!

A couple pictures of the table up close

The outdoor tables where we had dinner - her color theme was bright pink, lime green and black (mostly damask patterns)