Party Time III

Oh! I'm running so behind. I am never this behind on party stuff. I'm
usually so organized that I have everything ready and I'm just waiting
for the party. So now what right? Well I finally finished the
invitations. When I say finished I mean that I still have 2 more to
make and I have yet to put on the eyes or write the actual info inside.
You could kind of call that finished right? Okay, Okay I know, it's no
where near finished, but I am patting myself on the back for actually
having them all cut out and put together. Took way too much time.
So, last minute bad news, I was going to have the party
at my moms like I do every year and she tells me that it's a no go. She
insists that she told me before and I'm sorry to say, but that simply
isn't true. ( see I knew there was a good reason why I hadn't filled
out the invites yet) Could you imagine thetrauma? The new dilemma is finding a new place to host the party, hmm....the jury is still out on that one.

I know that the party is mostly for the adults (especially when it's
the first one)but I enjoy looking back at my first b day party pics and
seeing everyone that was there. I think it's a generally nice gesture
to do for your kids. Besides I like planning parties.
I received a little party checklist in the mail from toys r us. Very cute, they
mentioned something though that I was unaware of. It said in the pamphlet to register for gifts. I remember when my son turned 1 ( now 3) and I thought " I wish I could register for specific gifts" there were so many things I specifically wanted him to have. However, I didn't want to be a jerk and have people thinking they HAD to get him certain things. However, here is toys r us, telling me to register for my daughters first birthday. Interesting....I'm going to look into that more. Awesome idea is if I do say so myself.
Which brings me to what I should even ask for. We own practically every toy known to man. I want her to have new things,but we have EVERYTHING!!!
Back to the party, I will finish the invitations for sure tomorrow. No matter what I will, I just have to get them off of my mind. I'm going to go through my addresses and make sure I have every ones address so i can then address envelopes. After that I have to go back over the menu and make sure everything in that department is in order. I will mail the invites and anxiously await my R.S.V.P.'s
More to come....stay tuned

Party Time Part 2 ( The Invitations)

The part planning continues for the kids. I have managed to keep both
parties "going" on in my head at the same time. Meaning I have oh, I
don't know about a thousand ideas for each and I have remembered to
keep them separate.

I finally started on the invitations for my soon to be one year old daughter. The plan was to make ladybug invitations. I got the idea for the template from an awesome website and changed it a little bit so that the wings were attached rather then a separate piece.

I headed off to the craft store and once there wandered the aisles for black and white paper, only to be side tracked by the fact that they also had pink
paper....hmmmm...pink paper. This may seem strange to you, but let me show you the theme of the party long story short, I went with the pink.

Making them was a whole different story. The first one took me 10 minutes from start to finish. The next day I made 5 more over an hours time. I now only have 22 left to make.

I'll keep you posted on my progress.

Party Time

Well, this is officially MOM BLOG. You see it's getting close to birthday time for both of my kids. ( one is Sept. and one in Oct.) I have a way of having giant parties for my son. He will be three this year and the theme will be "Cars" the movie, which I must add he watches 3 times a day! My daughter is turning one, which means it is a big deal. Her theme will be Ladybugs.
I have already made myself, a pile of internet printed ideas. I have prob. mountains of scrap paper, where I have thought of things randomly and written them down while shopping, or ugh.....driving. lol Don't tell ok? So, let the planning begin. I will say I have to pat myself on the back because my parties come out awesome, that should be my job, a professional party planner. I have planned parties for things other then kids B-days also. I have done company parties, baby showers etc. whoa, sorry I got carried away there. Anyway, to give props where they are due, here are a few websites that I have gotten ideas from. dltk-kidz birthday in a box and Celebrate Express to name a few. Check them out, or write me if your planning a party and need ideas. I'll post more on my progress as I go. Wish me luck!