Rubber Ducky, Your The One!

This past weekend I was able to throw a Baby Shower for one of the most awesome people I know.

My cousin Candice is having her 2nd son Aatley James. For the shower we did a Rubber Ducky theme. I think it turned out beautifully.

The curtain thingy hides the photobooth :)



The was our table setting. The rubber duckies in the bowl are in Hair gel. The texture of the gel gave a really cool look. We used clear hair gel and put one drop of food coloring in the bottle. We tried putting the one drop in the bowl and mixing it but the blue was wayyyyy to dark.

The white duckies came from and online novelty store. We placed markers on the tables in a can so the ladies could decorate a ducky for the baby. :)

Our lovely centerpieces & next to it is the can of markers. We used spray adhesive to get a scrapbook piece of paper to wrap around a regular can recycled from a dinner side of green beans.

And our old fashioned milk jugs ;)

And the beautiful Mom to Be x 2! It was a really fun and relaxing shower. :)

oh, Baby baby baby!

I am planning my cousin Candice's Baby Shower! I am so very very very excited about it. It just so happens that as it comes closer to the shower actually getting here everything has gotten a little more difficult because of work hours increasing, school load increasing, and still trying to find time for little miss Harlee.

So this week is crunch week. We are six days away and my sister and I have been working on crafts nightly. The theme is Bubbles/Rubber Ducky. The color scheme is blues, yellows, and white.  First, we created the centerpieces, or one of the centerpieces, for the tables. The baby is a boy, and his name is going to be Aatley James. This centerpiece is made up of a mini pot, paint, foam, moss, bamboo skewer, and some cardstock from michaels. I made four of these and the total for all of them was less than $12.

The next thing we decorated were the "vintage milk bottles". These are soooo cute. I got the idea I think from Hostess with the mostess? but im not sure. Anyway, we bought five 4-packs of these-

   



If you take off all the stickers and plastic wrap around it you get a plain looking bottle that is reminiscent of the vintage milk bottles that used to be deliver to your door. So, in photoshop I created some graphics, printed them and cut them in to 2in circles. My sister added ribbon around the bottles and glued the circle to the front of the bottle. we then added our striped paper straws we got from etsy and the end result looked like this...

We did two types of bottles. The first has ribbon at the top and bottom of the bottle and the second has two strips of ribbon around the bottom. I think they look really cute :)

How Quickly/Slowly a year passes!

Depending on the situation, when you look at a Years time- one can perceive it to be very long. Like, when I think I still have a year left of school before I gradute- it seems like an eternity! This is not the case when it comes to a childs first year of existence. I look at Harlee all the time and cant believe she has already surpassed the 2 year mark.

Just this past week my nephew Rayden turned 1! There is no way it has been one year since I visited him in the hospital only hours after entering this world. Its funny how time can trick us in to making one year feel like an eternity or mere seconds.

So this past weekend was spent celebrating the birthday of my nephew. His party was held at Mankas Park- it has your typical playground structure but also a mini water park! The kids really dig it. I know Harlee had a blast even though she wasn't in the the water. But she did love the food and the pinata. She was on a serious sugar high after cake and candy.

Here is the little Birthday Boy!

A little cake never hurt anybody! Thanks Daddy for the cake-face!

Rayden walking with Mommy and Daddy- Look how happy he is!

Mommy and Rayden running through the water!



Harlee just had to get in the picture of Rayden and his Brother Alijah

The cute suit she didn't want to get wet :-/

And a happy sugar high child

A wonderful day spent with family in celebration of the blessing that we all know as Rayden :) Cant wait to celebrate many many many more birthdays with him. oh, wait, yes I can.... :)



Thursday is our Friday!

I was looking forward to todays work day being a short day but got held up running errands and picking up checks. I really missed lil Harlee girl! So when I got home I wanted to spend time with her doing fun stuff :) we played with all her little toys and then I happened to find this Play-Doh ice cream maker in my closet. She had gotten it for her birthday and it was stashed in my closet. So we made ice cream sundaes with sprinkles on top. She loved it :)

And then we had real Ice Cream Sundaes with sprinkles on top!

After Ice Cream she realized her Dolly had to go pee- So she escorted her to the potty. She is such a good Mommy.