MRI Tomorrow!

Alrighty, it's that time again! Molly has another MRI tomorrow morning at the Children's Hospital. (For those of you who don't know, Molly had a life threatening brain tumor and had a successful surgery last April . Now she has to have MRI's every 3 months. If you want to read her story go HERE.)

So we are getting anxious for tomorrow, and praying for strength and that everything goes well. We won't get to meet with the doctor to find out how it went until next Tuesday, so I am worried this is going to be a very long weekend.

But today Molly was great! She was very excited to give her friend a birthday card she made ALL by herself, she wouldn't even let me help write on it. Then she made her bed ALL by herself, this is a new trend I am liking. :) And she even got to paint artwork for the basement toy room!

I picked a 2 pack of canvas up at Hobby Lobby a few months back for Molly to paint for the toy room. They have 2 packs for just under $6, and if you print off a coupon even cheaper! Molly was thrilled to paint these to hang up.

Mustache Fun!

I am so behind on reading everyone's e-mail and blogs, I promise I will catch up soon! But in the meantime... If you need a smile like me... enjoy our chocolate mustache fun!!!

Yup, even Nora looks good in a mustache!

Miss Molly!

I didn't know my friend Stacy, and sister Beth had mustaches :) !

And just because I am that type of person... I couldn't leave out the cats!

Hee, Hee, Hee!

Mario Party!

This past weekend was Randal's 30th birthday!!! So Friday night we had a Mario party, Randal has always been a huge Nintendo and Mario fan, so it was a ton of fun!

After some borrowing from family, we were able to set up 4 TV's with video games to play. We had 2 Wii's set up and our old Game Cube and Super Nintendo. It was so fun to have it so everyone could play.

Game Cube and Super Nintendo stations!

Our friends Brad and Autumn brought this fun Mario puzzle. Here is the group of us that put it together, haha! Who knew puzzles were so fun!

I printed these question mark blocks on cardstock and laminated them to use as coasters.

Super easy Mario star cupcakes. I just used store frosting and cut fondant stars for the tops, then just used my food writer pens to draw on the eyes.

And warp tubes filled with fireballs. I just spray painted two sections of PVC pipe green to look like the tubes in Mario.

And no Mario party would be complete without chocolate Mario and Luigi mustaches for everyone!!!

And a LOT of Wii karaoke! My ears will never be the same!

This party was SO much fun! Randal had a great time, and I think all his Nintendo loving friends did too.

The girls slept over at my parents, but before they left Molly had to tryout the Super Nintendo!

And Nora had to model these fun Goomba hats, my mother-in-law knitted for the party! I think we need a family picture wearing these! I saw the idea for these here.

I saw the fun ideas for mustaches and warp pipes from this amazing party at Grey Grey Designs.

Very Hungry Caterpillar Party!

For Nora's 1st Birthday party we had a Very Hungry Caterpillar theme. Molly loves "reading" this book to Nora, so we thought this would be a great party idea.

We found this fun Very Hungry Caterpillar tablecloth at Target, and little favor bags. I just put crayons, a coloring page I printed from online, a few suckers, stickers and a green bead necklace inside each bag for the girls and there cousins.

One of my favorite details was the water bottle labels. I don't know why, but I love water bottle labels, and they are SO easy to make. I just printed a picture I liked, cut them, and used clear packaging tape to put them on the bottles. I also had pop and green punch.

Here is the cake I made, I think adding the gumballs around the edge was so fun, and goes with the dot theme in the book. I saw the idea for this over at Cake Walk.

Tons of yummy food, not super theme oriented, but easy and cute on Hungry Caterpillar plates.

And we couldn't forget the apples, oranges, pears, plums and strawberries, like the caterpillar eats through in the book!

Another favorite was the outfits I made for the girls. I found Very Hungry Caterpillar fabric at fabrics.com and used a coupon to get it quite a few months back. SO fun! Then I used the Kwik Sew pattern 3775 to make it yesterday. I love that this pattern goes from size 12 month to about 4t, so it works for both my girls.

Here is a back shot of the dress. Instead of using buttons like the pattern called for I used snaps, since I am afraid of making button holes, ;) and snaps are so easy with little ones.

And I couldn't forget Molly, so I made her up this easy skirt, and then just printed a caterpillar on heat transfer paper and ironed it onto one of her white long sleeve T-shirts.

Nora was spoiled by her family and friends who came to the party! We are so happy they could celebrate our sweet 1 year old with us!

And to top it off, she got to dig into her own cake. :)

Happy Birthday Nora!

Happy 1st Birthday Nora!!!

We love you SO much!

Valentine's Bags!

I am obsessed with putting vinyl words on reusable bags! I found these cute cloth Valentine's bags for $1, with a painted heart on the front. So I just cut the names of Molly's teachers out of white vinyl, and put them on the front! (Just like these Christmas ones) SO easy! Then I just put a bag of candy in them, for a fun Valentine's gift.

Valentine's Peanut Butter Blossoms!

Everybody loves Peanut Butter Blossoms, so when I saw this great idea to make a Valentine's version from eighteen25, they were immediately added to the to do list. I think they turned out adorable, and taste great! We used the Reese's Peanut Butter hearts for the tops. This batch we made to deliver to someone else, but I'm thinking tomorrow we will have to make another to have around the house. YUM!