Where the party at? part 2

Last year my husband turned 30 (dun dun dun!!) So I thought what better way to celebrate his age than to celebrate the decade he came from :)

I Love The 80's!!



We're talkin Care Bears, Nintendo, Hulk Hogan, Top Gun, Michael Jackson, and TONS of neon colors...everywhere! I have to thank Shelly for helping me with evey single aspect of this party. I could not have done it without her help!! First we splattered neon paint on tons of paper table cloths as part of the decor. We also found some old magazines from the 80's at an antique shop and created fun posters out of the hilarious advertisements.







One of my favorite touches were the floppy disk coasters we made that said "Brett Says Relax". They were a fun party favor that everyone enjoyed. We also created several stations that both entertained and added to the totally 80's theme! 1)The 80's listening station. I found a crazy amount of 80's music cassette tapes at thrift stores and of course a tape player. 2)The Spin the Bottle station ('nuff said). 3)The "30 reason's we love Brett" station. Each guest wrote down the thing they love the most about Brett and taped it to the poster. After the party I taped the poster to my husbands' bathroom mirror so he could enjoy it for a few weeks. 4)The "Cocktails" station. 5)The photo booth station. This was everyone's FAVORITE station because they could grab a few friends, strike a pose, and take a photo using the remote control!










And of course Shelly created another masterpiece of a cake that TOTALLY ROCKED!!










Just for fun...a few of a TOTALLY RADICAL moments from a night we will never forget (well kinda- the bartender had a very heavy pour).

Where the party at?

One of the few talents I inherited from my mother is the ability to throw a par-tay. Not just any par-tay. A crazy, kookoo, THEMED par-tay!! Nothing gives me more joy than hosting a bash that creates amazing memories. From baby-showers to birthday parties, I LOOOOVVVEEE bringing people together through themed parties.

I'm going to share some ideas that I hope will help my fellow party-throwers in the future...

Travel Themed Baby-Shower:



This was a baby-shower I threw for my dear friend Danielle who had a baby exactly 8 weeks after me! Her husband is in the Army and they travel all over the world (jealous much?) They have lived in Alabama, Hawaii, Savannah, and they just moved to Tennessee- right outside of Kentucky and Nashville!!






The invitations were "Passports" (one of my favorite touches). And the cake was to die for! I can't take credit for the cake though. My best friend Shelly has the magic touch. Not only was it in the shape of a suitcase with all the stickers from the places the Knights have lived, but it was sooooooo goooooood!!






The food I served was in the form of an "in flight meal". I packed sandwiches and even has a drink cart!






The guest favors were travel sized hand sanitizers packaged in little suit case bags that I decorated with travel stickers :)






I decorated with tons of vintage suit cases, paper diapers made from maps, and onsies with travel icons on them. The shower was a success (especially considering I was almost 9 months pregnant myself)!








We played a couple games that went along with the theme. The first game was a pregnancy trivia game. I split the guests into two teams, the red team and the blue team. I called out pregnancy/baby trivia questions and the first team to answer the question correctly would move their airplane on the huge map closer to the final destination. Elect a guest to act as "Vanna White" so you can focus on the trivia questions...



The second game we played was called "It's a boy". I wrote the phrase "It's a boy" in many different languages (again going along with the travel theme)and printed it on a sheet of paper for each guest. Danielle's sister in law got almost every single language!!



If you have any questions about throwing a travel themed party JUST ASK ME!!

Here's what I think

Here's what I want to know...what genius NON-parent thought of these:



I'll admit I was pretty excited to try these suckers out because my son is apparently training to be an acrobat. Jett likes to twist, turn, roll, buck in every direction while I'm attempting to change his diaper. I know you know what I'm talking about. Like this is how it went when I saw the commercial for the "Huggies Slip Ons":

Commercial: Does your baby move and squirm about when you're trying to change his diaper?

Me: YEEESSS!

Commercial: Is your baby a monkey on the changing table? A squirmy wormy? a diaper Houdini?

Me: Yes! Yes! Yes!

**Ok I'm not sure that's exactly how the commercial went, but that's how I remember it so just go with it!

I was literally the first person in line to buy these stupid diapers. I was so excited for Jett to pee so I could see how much easier these slip-ons were going to make my life :) (that was a fake smile in case you couldn't tell)

ATTEMPT #1)I ripped the first pair trying to wrangle my child into the leg holes while at the same time trying to stop him from flipping over, reaching for velcro's tail (the cat), and pulling on his pee-pee- SIMULTANEOUSLY. FAIL.

ATTEMPT #2)This time I tried going with the flow. When he flipped, I flipped. When he moved forward, I moved forward. When he tried to dive, head first, off of the changing table, I grabbed his by the arms and threw that damn diaper across the room!! FAIL.

Attempt #3) Three times a charm right? This time I treated the slip-on like a pull-up and stood my baby up. Except Jett doesn't stand up on his own and he certainly doesn't put his feet in the leg holes on command. So I finally ended up ripping the sides and putting the diaper on like normal (wrestling my monkey child)and taping it together. SUCCESS?

In conclusion I would have to say these diapers are not all they're cracked up to be! PLUS you have to take their pants all the way off in order to "slip" these diapers on...uhhhgggggg...not worth it.

In my defense...

So it's been almost a year since I last blogged. SO WHAT?!! SOOOO. WHHHAAAAATTTT. I had a frickin' baby, became a stay at home mom, learned to cook (kinda), and had the best year of my life...so far. In my defense I warned you all in my very first post that I wasn't going to make any promises on how long my blogging would last. But seriously, what is the point of a "BLOG" anyway. It's an outlet to speak your mind right? Well then, lets just think of the past year as research because now I have PLENTY to speak about!! So here we go (again...)

Pregnancy is 40 weeks

Ever since Brett and I found out we were expecting, I have taken it on as my personal mission to inform everyone that pregnancy is actually 10 months...not the commonly thought 9 months. It is still a mystery to me as to why people say pregnancy is only nine months, but one thing that is not a mystery is the how amazing it is to actually grow another person inside of you. Brett and I watch in disbelief every night while Jett is moving around in my belly. We try to figure out what body part is trying to break through or guess how long his hiccups will last :0) Jett is such a blessing and we cannot wait for him to arrive!

Jett's Room is Finished!

We are all ready for our baby boy to come home! Everything has been washed and put away. We added the tree, painted the bookshelves, painted the dresser, and added the hardware. Tick tock tick tock!