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*Tillamook sent me coupons to purchase the ice cream for my son’s party. How cool is that?! For the last few years we have kept our kid’s parties small. Gone are the days of my over the top kid’s parties. But I still like to make them special and memorable. That often means trying to do things a little bit differently. Most parties serve ice cream and soda. So this
My 8 year old son gets all the credit for this DIY. Last month he was super in to those loom bracelets. One day I had a bunch of rubber bands sitting out and he started linking them together like you would if you were making a bracelet. Duh. That would make for a super cute and super easy loom inspired rubber band garland. And because this is inspired by
So I’ve been back from #altsummit for a week now. And I’m still exhausted. I’ll have a full wrap up for you in the next week or so but I am super excited about these custom suckers we had at our mini-party so I just had to share these now! Right as we were beginning to plan our party, I found out about this great new company via Lindy called
I got a new car a few months back. It came with Sirius XM which I adore. For a while, I got away with listening to XMU, First Wave or Alt Nation. But one day I made the grave mistake of changing it to the kid’s station, Kid’s Place Live. I don’t actually hate everything about it. In fact, some of the music they play is actually good. But do
Maybe it is because my family is infatuated with Rastamouse ever since we saw it on YouTube last week. Maybe it was because I had a very brief phase where I wanted to dreadlocks, wore a lot of red, yellow and green and bought incense (from the swap meet) in high school. Or maybe because it is just freaking awesome but I had to share the most adorable kid’s birthday
This is the last post about the party. I mean it. I hope this gives an overall feel of the party for those who can’t handle my long winded, oddly categorized previous posts. I can’t even get over the beautiful photography done by Dez and Tam. I am in LOVE with their style and they are literally the nicest family I have ever met. If you are considering family portraits
Often my parties have a unique theme which the guests may or may not know about. I usually try to put info around for guests to find throughout the party. The only thing O wanted for his party was a bounce house. But our backyard isn’t big enough for one and so I thought it wasn’t going to work out. Then our friends, Jimmy and Vanessa, offered their small bounce
This post is picture heavy. Be warned. So the premise of the party was that O was inviting his friends over to be part of his space exploration team. And since the first question I always ask when starting a new activity is “do I get a new outfit,” I decided that I should make “uniforms” for each kid. I created a store to be where they could get their
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