Happy 7th Birthday Caden

Caden had his actual birthday on the 10th, we had his party a little early so it was closer when school got out.  Here is a little recap of the birthday boys special day!  And I promise I'll end the Minion post next week with the last of our items made ... lol

Who would think that the last weekend in July would rain like Heaven opened up and we were waiting for Noah to come by and pick us up.  But I must say AGAIN I have the BEST friends a girl can have.  They showed up and STAYED for almost 4 hours and partied in the rain, under tents and in the water.  I was in tears the morning of when the rain wouldn't stop but I shouldn't have worried because it was a GREAT day.

The kids and a few adults had fun in the water!

Most of the adults had fun on the land :)

Caden's favorite part: PRESENT TIME :)

Kids and adults enjoyed our fun Glasses

And lot's of food:

Happy 7th Birthday to my cuddle bug:

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend

Proud Mama Moments

Two Sunday's a go Cole asked to come sit with me in church instead of going to the kids zone.  He has been wanting more and more to come sit with me.  Which is not too bad since he does sit and listen and doesn't talk too much to me.   Our pastor was having his sermon and when he was closing he said I will baptize anyone who wants to.  Cole looked at me and said mom I would like to go up.  I said ok honey if you want that would be awesome.  At first he was a little scared since I wouldn't be walking up with him but the he said Mom I'm going to do it!  He walked up to the front of the church (in front of 600 to 1000 people).  He was the youngest of our service.  And the claps and tears from all was amazing.  I'm so proud of him and his decision.

During my recovery for eye surgery, we had a few more proud mama moments.

Caden got his second award at school.  This time he got an award for Math.  I was so proud of him I did venture out for this appointment but man did my eyes hurt and I went right to bed afterwards. 

Cole also had his first basketball game on Saturday and I was sadly in no shape to leave the house I sent the boys with my parents with my camera.  Sadly I looked at the pictures and all except this one was blurry :(. 

I'm so proud of my boys and and the amazing people they are becoming!

Have a wonderful Weekend!! 

Party Invites ... Mickey Mouse Head Invites

Caden has decided on Mickey Mouse for his birthday theme.  So on the hunt I went to find a cool Mickey Mouse invite.  I saw MANY ideas of a Mickey Mouse head invite but no one had a step by step how to do.  So I had to take the ideas I saw and kind of ran with it!

Here is what I came up with:

My first step was to buy a Mickey Mouse Cricket cartridge.  NOW I found several you-tube video's on how to make the circles yourself but let's just say I rather buy a kit that does it for me.  I found one on Amazon that had the characters and the Mickey Head I needed and it was super cheap!!  Regular $99 for $29.90 (Cricut 29-0382 Shape Mickey and Friends Cartridge for Cricut Cutting Machines).  Now figuring out how to print the head took me HOURS and an hour on the phone with Cricut Tech Support!  ALL you have to do is press shift + icon and then click on Mickey (the one in the star). EVEN though the girl from Tech support told me this wouldn't work it DID!!  I made the cricut cut go to the largest it could do and printed.  I believe I got 2 heads per half sheet I put in my machine.

Shift bottom button on left

Icon 3 button down on left
Mickey star is 3rd top bottom over on left

What you Need:
Mickey & Friend Cricut Cartridge
Black Card Stock
Red Card Stock
White Card Stock
Ribbon (Red with White Dots)
Yellow Buttons
Glue Gun
Glue Stick
Cricut Machine
Circle Cutter

Instructions:

1. Cut Black Mickey Heads
2. Cut Red Circles / I cut of 1/4 of the top to make it a 3/4 circle (I measured the size of the Mickey Head to find out what size circle I needed)
3. Took hot glue gun to glue on yellow buttons.
4. Took hot glue gun to glue on ribbon, pinched in middle to make look like a bow.
5. Glue stick around the outer edge of the black circle to stick the red on top.  REMEMBER you need to put the invite inside so stick close to edge.
6. Print on white cardstock your invite.  
7. Cut with a circle cutter make sure it is small enough to fit inside your pocket you made.

Easy Peasy and yup I'll have like 30 to make ... lol.

 Meeska, Mooska, Mouseketeers
Come one, come all,
Help us celebrate!

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Where The Wild Things Are Kindergarten Play Night

The school year has gone in a blink of an eye and we come upon the last 5.5 days left!!!  I'm a little sad at how fast it has gone.  Caden has grown so much and he has been thriving in Kindergarten.  He is reading books all by himself and writing stories along with drawing me great pictures!  Our graduation will be next Friday so I'll try to hold the tears until then!  But I must be that crazy mom that shares some of the fun photos of our play "Where the Wild Things Go".  It only last about 10 minutes but the kids did great and where so proud of their hats they made all by themselves!

Sorry a little blurry didn't have time to download camera

you would think my iPhone did better pics but it never does :(

Hope you have a great day! 

And to any of my readers effected by the horrible weather my prayers are with you all!