Teacher Appreciation Week

This past week was Teacher Appreciation Week. I love Bear's teacher this year. She is absolutely amazing with the kids and I appreciate all she does for her class. I wanted to do something special for her so I made this door sign for her.

We drove to the school at night and put it on her door. She was so so surprised and really loved it!

The Best Twilight Party Ever!

Let me just start off by saying you will never see a Twilight Party better than this one. This was the Best Twilight Party EVER!!

My friend and I being the true Twilight Fans that we are had an idea a couple of months ago of getting some girlfriends together and having a Twilight Movie Night. One thing led to another and this thing just ended up exploding into a full blown Twilight Party Extravaganza. We have literally worked on this party for weeks and weeks.

Our Invitation that we sent out.

We made this a Black, White & Red semi-formal event to make the evening especially dazzling.

Our Entrance to the "Cullen House." We were really happy with the way this turned out. Its exactly how we had imagined it minus the carved out apples that we were going to put tea lights in. It was just too windy for that.Here are the signs on the door. Too cute. Right?

When you walked in the first thing to see was our Twilight Tribute to each Book. Each Shelf had the book, a symbol for the book and a quote.

Our Twilight and New Moon Tribute.

Our Tribute to Eclipse and Breaking Dawn.Our Tribute to Edward and Bella for just being Edward and Bella.

We had Raviolis that night with bread sticks inspired from Edward and Bellas first non official date. I made a RED VELVET wedding cake for Edward and Bella.

My friends hubby went to Bella Winery and picked up a couple bottles of Bella Wine for our Party. We had Baseball Salt and Pepper Shakers because this was one of the best scenes of the movie.This was our Fondue Table. I used the wrong chocolate for the fondue so it wasn't exactly as elegant as I thought it was going to be. Still tasted good though.

Our T-shirt wall. We also had a T-shirt Pole but didn't get a pic of it.

Our Special Pose for Edward. We both look a little awkward but we were Edward's Bella's for the night.

Lindsey made this AMAZING Twilight Jeopardy Game.

We had 3 different Teams. The team names that our friends came up with were Pattinson Power, The Forkers & The Bloodsuckers .

My friend was the game show host.

 Our Prize Basket for the winning Team.

I filled the basket with items that represented things from the Twilight Saga books and then attached quotes to go with each item.
A few examples of the quotes

Eclipse Gum - “The clouds I can handle. But I can’t fight with an eclipse.” - Jacob

Dollar Store Eternity Perfume - "I promise to love you everyday of forever - Every single day of forever.” -Edward

A Baseball - “ Vampires like baseball?”- Bella

Hot & Cold Icepack - "Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.”- Bella

A doll - “Her tiny face was so absolutely perfect that it stunned me. She was even more beautiful than her father. Unbelievable. Impossible.” -Bella

We didn't end up getting a group photo but we did get this photo of everyones shoes.We ended our evening with of course the movie Twilight.
Before everyone left they received a Twilight Favor. Which was especially made by friend.

Didn't she make them look so cute. Each CD had the Twilight Soundtrack and also non other than the beautiful Rob Pattinson Songs.

Now that our party is over this is what we all have to look forward to. The countdown till New Moon.

Chore Chart

I have been wanting to get a Chore Chart for the kids for a while now. We have these Responsibility Charts that they have been doing for a while now but they are getting tired of putting their magnet ups all the time and usually don't end up doing it. I couldn't find anything that I liked so I decided to make one. Here it is. I took pictures of the chores because of the boys not being able to read yet. I am going to rotate the cards so that they don't have the same chores every week. The kids used it last night and the system seems to work. I hope they continue to like it.

Valentine's From Me to Him

This year for Valentines Day. I wanted to do something special for my Love. I didn't want to do the usual buy him a gift thing. I wanted to make it. But what do you make your husband. This is what I ended up doing. I saw this idea online and thought it was perfect!I took a deck of cards and put down all the reasons why I love him. It was a fun project to do.

Here are a few of the reasons why I love my hubby. He loved it!

Construction Birthday Party

Monkey wanted to have a "Construction Theme Birthday." Here was the invitation I sent out. I put a picture of him in the drivers seat.

I was going to make a construction hat for his birthday cake but he really wanted to have a dump truck cake. I tried my hardest to come up with something that resembled one. After a few trials and errors this was the end product. 

Transformer Birthday Party

This year for Big Guy's birthday he requested a "Transformer Party" with a transformer standing robot cake. I thought the dinosaur cake last year was a challenge. But a 3D robot. Yikes!

I wasn't sure how I was going to make a transformer robot but he said I could make "Optimus Prime" in his truck mode and that would be fine.

This is truck mode. And this is my version.

I had some games planned for the party. One being "A Mission to find the ALLSPARK." I found this game online and thought it was perfect. The idea of the game was kind of a scavenger hunt. They had to figure out a clue and then that would send them to the next clue which would eventually lead them to the ALLSPARK.

The Allspark was just a box painted grey and made it look like the allspark and then inside was wrapped candy bars in between layers of a big newspaper ball. They LOVED it! 

Peach of the Week

This week was Bear's turn in her class to be "Peach of the Week." Everyone in the class gets a turn to be the "Special Person" that week. Its actually really cute. She was so excited.

The "Peach of the Week" get to bring in a collage of themselves, pictures, show-n-tell and a special book.

The "Peach of the Week" also gets to sit in the special "Peach" chair next to the teacher. It is just a simple white chair so I thought it would be a great idea to dress it up a little. I made this chair cover and gave it to her class. They all LOVED IT!! You cant tell from the pic but the class really like how I made the peach fuzzy and puffy.