A "Hunter" Baby Shower

I recently helped host a baby shower for a friend. 

I LOVE to entertain and have parties so of course I jumped right into the planning!

After planning a Camp Out theme...

the baby shower was eventually switched to a "Hunter" theme.

We started out with an evite with cute wording!

They're expecting a new "Hunter" for their crew
A brother for ____ & ____ and a hunting buddy for daddy too!
Let's help them prepare for a sweet baby boy
with a pair of camo pants and a pin-shooter for a toy!

Open Season starts DATE
Target time TIME
Hunting Grounds PLACE
Join the Hunt Club RSVP
Big Game Registry REGISTRY

 Each hostess brought their ideas and transformed them into a beautiful celebration

for Momma and Baby Hunter!

Twig WELCOME sign

 The Table Setting

 

Baby Shower Games

Shooting Practice

Closest to the bulls eye WINS!

Our guest of honor

Only at a "Hunting" shower 

would you have a 
gun and target game!

The Food    
I can't believe I forgot to take a picture of the food table!!

~MENU~
Pulled Pork
Rolls
Deviled Eggs
 Cole Slaw
Texas Baked Beans
Fruit Salad

My plate

The Dessert Table

Chocolate Fountain with lots of goodies for dipping!

Yummy Smores Dessert

The Trail Mix Bar

Beautiful Twig Sign

Bark lined Cans were adorable for serving

~Trail Mix Bar Menu~

Granola

Craisins

M & M's

Chocolate Chips

Mixed Nuts

Dry Roasted Peanuts

Honey Goldfish

Butterscotch and White Chocolate Chips

Marshmallows

Baby Shower Inspired by Pinterest
"Hunter" Baby Shower
It's a Camp Out Baby Shower 

 

Art for Our Lady: Marian Artist Trading Card Swap 2011

We signed up to participate in Marian Artist Trading Card Swap at Pondered In My Heart.

This was VERY intimidating to me since I am not an artist and 

I literally waited until the last minute 

to get the ball rolling paint flinging!

The littles were excited to work with the tiny (2.5" x 3.5") cards.

We used washable paints, black marker pens, color pencils and a red bingo marker.

Some of the card titles,
I wrote down exactly what they told me:

"Mary with a Big Smile" UNO

"Mary at Jesus' Tomb" UNO
"Joseph- Mary's Husband" DOS
"Mary's Garden" DOS

UNO's cards

DOS' cards

TRES' cards

My Cards

My inspiration was Our lady of Guadalupe. 

That is the name of the church I attended as a child. 

My mother had aprons made for her granddaughters and 

I hung up one of them for a visual. 

I was afraid of how they would turn out and I stuck with what was easy and

they actually turned out better than I imagined!

I'm so excited to receive our cards but 

even more excited for the kid's

reactions when their very own cards come in the mail!

Thanks so much Kimberlee for arranging the card swap and for all your time

separating, sorting, labeling, and mailing...etc. etc etc.

What's Up...

It's been a while since I've been able to blog.

Blame it on nice weather!!

We have been transforming our backyard into a Mother's Child's Wonderland!

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All work and no play

doesn't exist here!!

Peppermint Sticks!!

Vallimasoos: "Honey will you get those for me?"

Cookie Man: "what for?" (said in a very sarcastic tone)

Vallimasoos: "Peppermint Sticks!"

Cookie Man: "oh!" (gears rolling in his head as he puts 2 and 2 together)

You know a man TRULY loves you when you ask him to go dumpster diving AND he does!

And so I love him even more than yesterday!

OK-OK he really didn't jump into a dumpster... 

Cookie Man was tall enough to reach in and grab them while standing from his truck!

Gotta love that man!!

Enough with all the gooey, kissy stuff!

You know what these are???

...Me either BUT they came from a parking lot re-do!

These were waiting to be rescued 

by a strong, super sexy man 

in YES...the dumpster!

 I bought some painters tape and White Krylon Spray Paint for plastics.

I gave them Peppermint stripes!

  and sprayed them up good!!

We placed them on each side of the garage.

Being that we love to decorate the outside of our house for Christmas...

I knew they would be an awesome and FREE addition!!

Best of all...I have 3 more to make!!

I think eventually I'd like to see if I can add a 'hook' on the end to made a Candy Cane!

I'm linking up to

Mad in Crafts Link Party

Celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

This has got to be my most favorite feast day to celebrate!! I grew up going to church at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.  Every year we would wake up to attend the morning "mañanitas"!


Play this video to hear Las Mananitas!

I have the best memories as a child attending the grand celebration!

Today the littles made Juan Diego Tilmas. 

We got the directions from this website but I made ours "Momma Friendly"!

(I cut out flowers with one of my punches!) 

The kids just simply glued their flowers around the Image of the Virgen.

 

 UNO and TRES showing off their tilmas.

(DOS fell asleep before the picture)

 

Last year, my mom..."Wela" had Our Lady of Guadalupe Aprons made for her and her granddaughters!

(She says for making tortillas and tamales!)

TRES posing in an OLG apron her "Wela" made for her.

(I'm thinking I need one too!)

After dinner we had Chocolate and Pan Dulce...

reliving another childhood memory!

VIVA LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE!

I am linking here!

Click here to learn more about:
Juan Diego
Our Lady of Guadalupe

Coffee Filter Snowflakes

UNO and I made Snowflakes out of Coffee Filters.

We simply folder them in half 3 times and snipped away.

Cutting through the filters was a bit difficult for UNO, 

but he did great!

UNO's Snowflake!

Our Snow flurry!

 We then hung them next to our

"It's a Wonderful Life" sign!

Paper Bag Turkey

When I saw this idea at Tip Junkie, I was  

obsessing... psychotic.. stayed awake all night thinking about it... 

inspired to make it!

UNO was scheduled to take snack to pre-school today, GOLDFISH crackers!

Instead of throwing a couple of bags at the teacher and running, 

I thought it would be cute to add to the snack time fun!

Get the step by step instructions with photos here!

Here are pictures and the variations I used to create my feast!

 2 large paper bags

Turn one inside out.

 Since I didn't have the small lunch bags...I made my own!

 Turn them inside out and tape them.

 Future drumsticks

 Viola! One turkey ready for stuffing!

I forgot to take pictures of the frills in the making!

 I used bag goldfish. 

I also pinched the middle and pulled out to make it "fluffy"

 Stuff the "bird"!

Tuck under and tape closed.

Tape drumsticks.

 Our turkey!

I hope his class enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it for them!