Meeska, Mooska, It is a Mickey Mouse Birthday!

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Shelby Lynn turned 3 in June! Unfortunately her daddy was still gone, so I had her party back in TN with family. I had so much fun planning her party…I think I went a little overboard with the theme…..nah that is not possible, lol! My fabulous friend who is also and excellent photographer came and took pictures of the big day. I decided to put them in a collage for easier blogging purposes, these are only a small, small amount of pictures that were taken! I spent weeks looking online to get ideas. At the end of the post I will link to some of my favorite sites!

Here is the Birthday Girl. My fabulous friend found the cute polka dot dress at a consignment sale and when I saw it I knew it would be perfect for the party!

The Decorations

I made a sign for the driveway using my cricut, it matched the invitations (which I forgot to take a picture of). I also used my cricut to make a banner and confetti for the table. I made tissue pompoms and hung them from the ceiling with red, black and yellow crepe paper streamers. (Apparently I forgot to include the picture in my collage. If anyone wants to see them let me know and I will do a separate post.) For party favors, I got big sand buckets from Michaels and wrote each child’s name on them and filled them with goodies! For the party hats I just purchase a package of multicolored hats and punched out white polka dots from cardstock and adhered them on. I cut the ears out of sparkly black foam and cut little slits on the side of the hats and slide them in! Easy Peasy!

The Food

For the food, I didn’t do anything too fancy, just hotdogs, hamburgers, fruit, chips, and baked beans. I did make little cards with Mickey Mouse themed names for the food, like Hot Diggety Dogs!

My fabulous friend and her wonderful hubby made the cake for me. I showed them some examples of cakes I liked and then they took over! It was better than I could have ever imaged! Melanie baked the cakes and Oz decorated…seriously, they should start a business! Melanie and I also made Mickey Mouse suckers which turned out fabulous considering that is when Shelby Lynn decided to roll off the bed during her nap and break her arm! Poor little thing she had a broke arm for her party, but she was a real trooper!

Party Time and Games

During the party the kids worked on a craft. I found Minnie Mouse and Daisy wood cutouts at Michaels for the kids to color. I hotglued little clothes pins to the back so when I sent thank yous I could also send a picture of each child with the birthday gal and it would be a photo holder. The kids did a great job with the coloring!

I used my cricut once a again to cut out Minnie Mouse and her bow to make a game of pin the bow on Minnie Mouse. This was a huge hit! Even the one of the smallest guest got in on the action!

I found the pinata at the party store, I was going to make one that I have found on another blog, but ran out of time. Even the moms enjoyed taking a swing at it!

Here are some of the blogs that I found inspiration from:

Heavenly Blooms

Buell Family

At Second Street

And this site had lots of great partys!

A moment of silence

quick update

Just wanted to post a quick update saying that SL's party went fantastically (not sure if that is even a word, ha!). The day before her party not so swell...she broke her arm. Thankfully it is just a buckle fracture which is basically just a bend in the bone. We are back home (we had her party in TN) and tomorrow we will go and get the hard cast on. She is in a splint as of right now. I can't wait to post pictures of the party and I will also post some of her little cast :(
Also please continue to pray for my hubby, he will be home in one week, but it is still a dangerous place and I will not feel comfortable until his arms around us both! Also please pray for his team who was injured, he is expected to be ok but is still in need of prayer!

Happy Daddy’s Day!!!

Dear Daddy,

I wanted to wish you a very Happy Daddy’s Day. You are the best daddy in the whole world! Thank you for all the things you do with me!

Thank you for taking me on walks

Going down slides with me!

Helping me explore new places!

 

Teaching me about the animals!

Playing in the snow!

And for great big daddy hugs!

I love you very much and can’t wait for you to come home so we can do more of these things! – Shelby Lynn

Dear Jay,

I want to wish you a Happy Father’s day as well! Thank you for all that you do to provide for our family, being our protector and provider. Thank you for giving me such a beautiful daughter! In all that you do and all that you are, these are the ways I love you!!

Thank you for always making me laugh

I know that you love all your girls and I love that about you

 

You are the best, a perfect fit for me and I love you with all my heart! I can’t wait to see you! I hope you have a Fabulous Father’s Day. We are sending much love your way!!! -Pam

Look what we did this week...

Dear Daddy,

Mommy and I have hung around the house this week...can you believe it! A couple times we went out to the store because I told mommy I wanted to byebye in the car! Well today mommy took me byebye in the car and we went to a giant toy store! I got a couple of my birthday presents from grammy and granddaddy early. Mommy and I picked out a swimming pool and a water table to play in. Daddy it is soooooo hot here, mommy says it is over 90 degrees!

My new water table, it came with a polar bear, a penguin, and a seal (mommy keeps calling it a walrus, but I think it is a seal!)







My sprinkler, mommy didn't get any pics of us playing in it because she didn't want to get her camera wet, but it is fun! It has all these crazy arms that wiggle water everywhere!


My favorite, popsicles!





Mommy also cleaned out her closet this week. And that wasn't so much fun. She said she put the pictures up for Aunt Mel....I have no clue why she would want to see them, pretty boring to me. Hi, Aunt Mel!!

ALL this came out of mommy's closet!!!


What a mess! My toys never look like that (wink)!


I thought Mommy's closet needed painting!


Mommy said she got the organizing stuff on clearance at Target, in case anyone was interested (ummm boring again!)


Here it is after mommy gave away a lot of stuff!




Now back to the good stuff!
Mommy got out this new toy for me to play with...who knew she was hoarding my Christmas toys!!! Seriously Daddy can you tell her not to do that! Anyway mommy says this toy is a shape sorter. I don't know about sorting, but I sure had fun!



I think they look best sorted this way!





Mommy also taught me how to use the computer to play games...did you know you could play games on the computer daddy? I see know why you like it so much, it is all I want to do , but mommy doesn't share the computer very well!

My Mickey Mouse Game!

You have to use something called a mouse to play it! Mommy said I did really well, I don't know why she was surprised, it is pretty simple!

Can't wait until you get home so I can show you how to play!!! I love you daddy,
Your Lil Punkin!

We interupt this blog due to no photos.......

WHAT, no photos? That is exactly what I screamed when I realized my external hard drive had crashed and I couldn't access my pictures. I have hope that my BBF's hubby will be able to retrieved them. So until I can get my pics back or SL and I do something other that try and get her to use the potty, my blog posts are on hold. I think potty training is the most difficult thing I have had to do as a mom! I am seriously tempted to pay someone to come train her...maybe I could take a vacation to the beach while that happened, LOL! So not much will be happening here except mopping and laundry. But in a week, Mel and Z will be arriving so I know TONS of pictures will be taken!! So if I have any readers left we will return in a couple of weeks with hopefully a potty trained, smiling face!! (ummm that would be from SL, in case you were confused, hehe!)

Westmoreland Berry Farm

Dear Daddy,

Well I guess Mommy told you about the pictures. She said that the hard drive crashed (sounds dangerous) and we can't write about those right now, hopefully we can get them later! So instead I will tell you about our trip to the strawberry farm today! This morning mommy told me we were going to a farm where we could pick our own strawberries! I was very excited. We had to ride in the car for a long time, but I watched Elmo so it was ok. When we got to the farm we pick out our basket and waited for the tractor. While we were waiting I saw this cool sign that showed how tall I am. Look how much I have grown!!


Here I am showing, Mommy what a strawberry looks like.


Finally the tractor came. When I was visiting Granddaddy, he rode me around on his tractor, but this one was REALLY big. I didn't get to drive it like I did granddaddy's but it was still fun to ride behind!



Look at all those rows of strawberries! Mommy said to help her find the big red ones!


I found a big red one right away and showed mommy how to pick it!



I helped mommy find all the big red ones, I made sure she looked at all the plants!


Here I am checking out all the strawberries,


Look how pretty!


This one needed a closer look,




Smells like a strawberry,


better see if it tastes like a strawberry!


I really enjoyed picking the strawberries now it is time to go pay!


A nice couple took mine and mommy's picture!


After all that hard work, mommy bought us some ice cream that the farm was selling, but after two bites I told her I was sleepy and need a nap.....so here I am taking one in the car on the way home!


Can't wait to take you to the farm when you get home, daddy. Mommy says when you get back the farm will have peaches and raspberries for picking....won't that be fun!!
Love you from your Lil Punkin!!!