You are royally invited

This year for K's 5th birthday, she was able to invite some friends to her party. It started out as a tea party then became a tea party/manis&pedis. Then we added "make jewlery" to all that. At first I wasn't sure how many girls were going to be able to come. In the end, 5 little girls came, which was a nice number. The invitation asked that each girl come dressed up too, so we had 6 very nicely dressed little girls getting nails painted, making bracelets, and drinking out of nice glass tea cups. It was so much fun!

I made a "spa corner" for the girls to get their nails done. Aunt T and Meg (a good friend) came to do the painting. Each girl got to pick what color they wanted and then they got to pick out a polish to take home.

I even talked C into being the "butler" and opening the door for the girls as they came in. He was such a good sport and did a great job.

Here are the goodie bags that each girl got to take home. It had a nail file, a crown, a silly band, a squinky, some Godiva chocolate, and then the polish that they chose. K chose the purple; no shock there. (the scroll laying in front was the invitation)

Here is one little girl coming in with her puppy all dressed up too!

And of course Aunt T made the cake and did such a good job! I love her cakes!

I made some "fancier" food for snacks. The vegies were arranged to look like flowers, cheese cut out to look like flowers on top of crackers, fruit in a baggie to look like a butterfly, and fruit roll ups to look like sushi. Fun!

K got some nice presents too. She got: glow in the dark-make your own shapes-sidewalk chalk,
a new puzzle, a new purse (with $2 hidden inside), a new game for her "kindle", a Hello Kitty watch, a bath Barbie, a new book, a new umbrella, and new sunglasses with a really nice case. Plus some money, that she has already spent.

I think she had a good time. I know all the girls did. I think their favorite part was making the jewlery (I forgot a pictre of that). I know I had fun planning it all.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, K GIRL!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday K girl!

It's so hard to believe that she's 5!


She might drive me nuts at times, but I love her! She makes me laugh!

Kids day camp = mom's fun week

My kids went to day camp at Uncle J and aunt T's church a few weeks ago. It was 8-5 Monday thru Friday. They had such a blast. I'm hoping to get some pictures so I can post about what they did. Still working on the pictures.

But for me, I had my own plans.


Monday: my one goal for the entire week was to get the pantry all cleaned out. If I got nothing else but that done, I would be happy. I am please to report that I did get my pantry done and more besides. I got the fridge, the oven, the lazy susan, all but one cupboard, and only one drawer--all cleaned out. Very pleased. Here is the midst of the storm.

Tuesday: I had Dei Gratia in the morning and then went home and got more cleaning done.



Wednesday: After I dropped the kids off in the morning, I started shopping. I went to Menards, the mall, Kohls, Target, Kroger, and CVS. Plus I went to lunch with Daddy.




Thursday: I spent the day with Aunt T. We were supposed to be scrapbooking. We didn't get started with that until way late in the afternoon. So we didn't get much done. But we did have a very yummy lunch. Sushi from a new place right around the corner from them.

Friday: I spent the day at home again getting regular cleaning and laundry done.

I know the kids had a fun but tiring week. I could say the same for me.


(to add to all the business, C kept winning his tourney games and so had unexpected games and practices through out the week. But that's all another post)

Doh!

I usually have stories that the kids have done. This post is about me. And my Doh! moments. I have 2.

#1: Back story: every Wednesday church is offering meals before church for $2 per person. It's a way just to make Wednesday nights easier. You have to buy the tickets Sunday so they can have a count. Sunday night before church (a few weeks ago) we left early so we could drive through the ATM and get some cash out. First ATM we went through was broken. Daddy's card wouldn't go in the slot for some reason. We assumed that there was a card stuck in the slot. So we backed out and went to the other ATM. At the second ATM I told Daddy to choose "quick cash" which should have given us just a quick $20. But for some reason it was automatically going to $60. NO! CANCEL! He tried 3times before he opted to go the regular route and get the $20. Meanwhile, someone had gone through the ATM that we thought was broke--and left! Seems like we were there for forever. So we go to church...........and............forget to buy the tickets! Doh!

#2: I was doing laundry the other day. I emptied the lint trap (applause. thank you.) My lint trap is on top of my dryer. As I was turning to put the lint catcher thing back in, my elbow knocked a stain stick----right down the chute! Aaah! How do I get it out?! I called my very handy next door neighbor and he came over to help. He had a brush that fit down the chute but wasn't able to get it out. HE HAD TO TAKE THE ENTIRE BACK OFF MY DRYER.



Besides the stain stick that he rescued, he rescued a small person made of lint. Look at that pile! and yes SIL, I faithfully empty my lint trap. You should see the number of turns that the chute has to make. It's no surprise there is so much lint down in there.

So thankful for our handy next door neighbor. What took him about 25 minutes would have taken Daddy and I about 25 hours. Doh!

My garden

Anyone remember my garden last year? (here and here) It was very small. I up-graded this year. I think last year's was 56 inches. This year I think it's 12x20 feet. I have quite a bit planted but still have room for more. I think I'm done planting for now but next year, I want more! I keep telling my mom that I'm going to post a video of it so she can see what a gardener I've become, and I kept forgetting. So here it finally is.

For some reason blogger won't upload the video, so click on this YouTube link and it should take you there.

I forgot to mention that I also have 2 more strawberry bushes at the back fence. Yummy!