Our Little Monster turned 2....here's how we celebrated

Some recent work

My Sister is a Good Sport

When I found out Trish would be having another baby (#3 in just over 3 years), I knew I had to plan another special and unique baby shower.  When I found out it was a girl, I knew I wanted to do an umbrella themed shower, with crystals as rain and a picture on her invite of her under an umbrella while it rained all around her. I told her of my idea, and she said "if you're using that as a 'shower Trish with love' jumping off point, why not just put me in a shower with a shower cap on?"  Her flippant remark changed the entire plan for her shower.  I took it and rolled with it. I convinced our friends NINE Photography to snap a couple of pics for me while they were shooting my daughter's first birthday. I also roped in my good friend Tina (of Twitterpated) to help me.  I wanted a picture of Trish in the shower with lots of extra  arms doing shower things....here's what we got.

Here's how we pulled it off....that's me laying on my back in the bottom of the tub, and Tina standing on the edge of the tub behind the shower curtain.

 

The rest of the shower was pretty tame, with a pink, orange and purple thing....lots of flowers and sparkles! The invitations had rhinestones glued on was water droplets from the shower.

LD's Pirate Party

My nephew's first birthday was a blast....it's taken me MONTHS to post this because I had so much fun preparing for it that I didn't charge my camera and therefore didn't take any pictures.  It all started with the idea to have a splash party...his birthday is at the end of May and it is hot here in Texas!  When I found the pirate ship inflatable pool online and showed it to my sister we knew instantly we had to go all out pirate.  Our friend Tina from Twitterpated created the invitations modeled after some I'd found online...I'm hoping I can post a pic later, it was super cute!  Then I shopped around for fabrics and other pirate-y things. My mom and her husband created the birthday cake, I made a watermelon fruit salad ship, and of course we had goldfish among other snacks. Pirate balloons and streamers were purchased at various party stores. I made a giant red X for the front yard, burned the edges of manila paper for all of the signs, and created a photo booth area with all of the great pirate dress up finds.