Twilight Obsessed

Breaking Dawn part 2, the last movie in the Twilight Saga, was released on blue-ray the beginning of March. So, I decided to host a DVD viewing party. There had been a couple of parties over the last couple of years so I had quite a few resources for planning. Almost all the decorations were provided by my friend Shawna. She is an expert party planner, in my opinion, and already had things left over from before. She has every movie poster, except the last one. I was lucky enough to have one practically fall into my lap. One of the stores had a deal where I you bought the movie you could get a free poster along with some other things. Well, my hubby had already graciously purchased the movie, so I asked how much just the poster was. The worker told me to just take it, I could just have it. Awesome!

So for a couple of days I put a cake together that I thought could represent all of the books and movies. It was by far the most difficult cake I had attempted. I think it turned out pretty well though.

While we were waiting for everyone to arrive, I gathered some things together for some games. There was a character matching game as well as a power matching game.

I provided mushroom ravioli, vampire blood punch, and the red velvet cake. Everyone who came brought Twilight themed side dishes. Everything tasted great and it was a lot of fun.

At the end of the evening, my friend Edie gave me the swan and rose as a thank you. That was so awesome. We invaded her house and she thanked me for it. I am grateful for all her help with the set up and location.

Here are a few pics of the set up.

Blue and Gold Celebration

So now that Jacob is eight he has entered the big world of scouting.  For the Blue and Gold birthday celebration of scouting they put together a circuit of activities for families to participate in. The first was a knot tying activity using Twizzlers.  The kids loved that they got to eat their work.  Then we moved on to ax throwing.  They got to practice hitting the target with tennis balls.  I tell you Wescott has a really good arm!

 Then on to the shooting range.  Everyone got a turn with the Nerf guns.  

Some were a bit wild with their aim.

Wes so proud of himself.

 The last station was filled with minute to win it games.

Mummy making

Moving cupcake wrapper with a straw

There was also a game set up where you knock down a wall of cups with an exhaling balloon. That one was difficult to capture though.

The night was a lot of fun.  Will can't wait for the next pack meeting because he loved it so much.  The next one is the Pinewood Derby!  Stay tuned...

Love, True Love

I love my family so much.  I show them that I do everyday, but Valentine's is an extra special day.  I started the morning off with pink heart pancakes with chocolate chips.  The kids were so excited, and they absolutely loved it. 

I made these cute little valentines for my littles.  I think they turned out pretty cute.  It took me a long time, but I finally jumped on the Pinterest bandwagon.  They have a lot of cool things to do!

I also made a valentine themed cake for my cake this month.  Strawberry cake with strawberries filling the layers.  

Here is the finished cake.  Not too bad.  The 6" cake is much more difficult for me to cover evenly. 

This one is the best so far.

I made a special steak dinner with twice baked potatoes, broccoli and cheese sauce.  Jeremiah came home bearing gifts for all.  The kids enjoyed their M&M sticker, stamper, dispensers, and I loved the box of cordial cherries.  So yummy.  They are lasting quite a while.  I don't think I am even half way through them.  

A Bit Random

So a bunch of pictures here that really don't got together.

I just thought it was cute having all the kids sitting together  on the couch.

On the one hundredth day of school the kindergartners had a big celebration.  They have been working on counting, recognizing, and writing their numbers up to 100.  Practicing counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's Emma has gotten really good at making it all the way to 100, and has now realized that she can go even farther than that.  Here she is wearing her 100 crown with 100 dots on it.  

They were also urged to dress up as grandmas and grandpas.
 So with a dress, pearls, hat and bag she headed off to school.

At Safeway, the Easter candy display includes this bunny and chick.  All of the kids wanted their picture taken, however, only Emma and Jacob were tall enough.

Chuck E. Cheese

Occasionally, Jeremiah will have a day off during the week.  This is a really special time for William and Wescott.  With Jacob and Emma in school, they get to have a lot of daddy time.  On one of these days, we surprised the little boys by taking them to Chuck E. Cheese for lunch.  They had so much fun.  When they saw Chuck E. come around they were excited to get up and dance with him.  They weren't too sure about a high five, but eventually did it.  No pic though.  They didn't want to get too close.  LOL

After they were done eating they went with daddy up in the big crawling structure.  I got a few shots of them in the various windows.  I think their favorite part was the fact that Daddy was up there with them.  

They enjoyed riding on all the toys and playing the games.  They did pretty well, too!

Fun times.  Memories made.  I love my little boys!