Happy St. Pat's Day!!

Monster Birthday Party!

Finally getting around to a quick post of Matthew's 4th Birthday "Monster" Party!  He loved every minute of it.  It was a fun party for one little boy who loves "monsters"! :)

Brothers...ready to party!

The birthday boy...

Daddy and son...

Mommy and son...

The family enjoying the food...

Family pic...

Ready for cake...

Matthew's cousins are ready to sing "Happy Birthday"...

Ball and bat gift...

T-ball set...

Robot gift from us...(Note:  This is the LOUDEST toy ever!!)

The "hit" of the evening...his cousin Ian's hand-me-down bike.  Like new condition.  He LOVES it.

Video of us singing "Happy Birthday" to Matthew...

Monster Birthday Party Decor

I had such a blast planning Matthew's 4th birthday party!  Thanks to Pinterest, I found such great ideas for the decorations and themes for a monster party.  I have to give a big shout out to my Mom who helped me with all the "hand mit" monsters, and the Kleenex utensil boxes.  I loved how all the details and colors came together.  Such a fun party for a 4 year old boy who loves monsters!

Some of the "hand mit" monsters...I found most of them at the Dollar Store, Walmart, and Target...

A view of the table.  The "cake stand" is just a box from the basement with black and white chevron fabric over it...

The awesome cake by my friend Kynda!  The top part is chocolate with cookies and cream filling, and the bottom layer is vanilla...

A close-up of the monsters on the cake...

One of the printable place mats...

I used a circular punch out on scrapbook paper for more color on the table...

Found these cute monster ice cream or cereal bowls...

I even had water bottle labels!

The kitchen table.  Notice the black and white striped straws to go with the theme?  Loving all the fun straws you can get right now...

Closer view of the Kleenex monster utensil boxes...so fun!

Ready to party! (I love how Matthew looks so thrilled in this picture..)

Happy 4th Birthday Matthew!

We can hardly believe that our little guy is 4 years old!  What a blessing he is.  Matthew had a fun birthday celebrating at school, and I was also able to go and help celebrate with him.  It was a great time with his classmates and seeing their festivities when someone has a birthday.  Here he is at school ready for the day to begin...

This is the fun "Birthday Cake" song they sing at school.  I was beginning to wonder if Matthew already had a sugary cake from the way he was bouncing off the walls the entire song! :)


I picked up some fun "monster" cupcakes for his birthday at SugarJones Bakery...

Happy 4th Birthday Matthew!!

Valentines Yummies!

I had fun creating a "heart" shaped food them for Valentines Day meals!  Here is what I created...all Pinterest inspired...

Breakfast:  Heart-shaped Egg-in-the-Hole

 Lunch:  For Matthew, and per his request, a jelly sandwich with a heart-shaped cut out, sprinkles, and strawberry milk...

Dinner:  Heart-shaped pizza with heart-shaped pepperoni, pink smoothie, and a heart-shaped red velvet cake from SugarJones Bakery...

Here are the adorable "I Dig You" Valentines I made for Matthew's classmates, complete with mini shovel and all!

And here is Matthew with his loot of cards and goodies from school!

Happy Valentines Day!!

Neighborhood Sledding

What a difference 24 hours can make!  It has been quite a wild winter here...very mild at times, then WHAM, and whole bunch of snow...then another thaw out. Such was the case in January, when I took some video of Matthew riding his new kick board he got for Christmas in our neighborhood.  It was a very sunny 50+ degree day.  Here he is, in all his dare devil glory...





And Here he is, 24 hours later, sledding on the same hill!  (What is funny is that he wiped out at the same place the day before!)


The boys are ready to sled!

Jacob was liking it!

Chris and Matthew having fun...

The boys and I...

And what is better than having hot chocolate after sledding?  This is an awesome recipe from Our Best Bites blog for S'mores Hot Chocolate...YUM!