A Year Gone By

The birthday girl will be one in 3 days and I can't believe it! I have been totally consumed with the party I've been planning and today was the first time I sat back and thought "this time last year I was beyond pregnant" now a whole year has passed.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. Don't get me wrong, I am more then excited at my little girl growing up, but how can I not be a little sad at the same time? She is 1 now and that means my son will be 3. You really start to realize how fast time goes by once you have kids and have something actually in your face saying "it's been a year, it's been 10 years, it's been 16, 20, 50 years!" With time moving so fast, it's hard to not feel like you could have done more in that time frame. Like maybe you failed this year. Maybe life should be a lot different then it was a year ago. For me, things are the same. Outside of the fact that I am not pregnant, my life hasn't changed much, if at all.
As I said before, I'm not sure how I feel about that. Being a parent seems to make time move so much faster then it used to, I don't think it's something that anyone can get used to, but it shows that you have to make the most of even the smallest things because they will all be gone too soon.

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!