St. Patrick's Day Breakfast

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!

I don't know about you guys but we have been hearing about some ornery little Leprechauns running rampant this week.  While Skaterboy was setting a trap for one at our house this morning it looks like the little mischief maker had already been in the kitchen.  All our breakfast was turned green!  Little Miss M must like green food because she put down 3 pancakes all by herself!  Looks like we have a new tradition.

Miss M's

The Trap!

What do you do to celebrate this Irish holiday?

SuperHero Birthday Party!

My super sweet Skater boy turned 6!  Time has flown by this last few years.  For his 4th I was in labor with his sister and last year we let Chuck E. Cheese do all the work, so this year we wanted to do our own bash.  Superhero is what he wanted and that is what he got!  We borrowed a friends back yard to make it a swim party.

Pinterest is my new love...I mean addiction!  There are just so many ideas all in one spot!  I could spend hours cruising for ideas.  There are some great Superhero parties on there and I snagged (and copied) a few ideas.  One being the 'city scape' shower curtain as a backdrop...I used it for our picture area.  I made about 30 of the 'No-sew' capes I pinned from a blog and they turned out so cute.  Cheaper than anything I could buy online, they only cost about $3 a person.

I found a super cute 'vintage' theme set on Etsy from Simonemadeit.  It is a digital file that I could customize and print out at home.  That covered his invites and party favors, snack cones, and extras.  He wanted a pinata but we couldn't find one we really liked.  There were only round ones and 1 of Spidermans head, no thanks.  BUT, being close to Halloween--well not really but the stores put stuff out so darn early--we found a smaller one in a bat shape for half the price :)  I just printed out a Batman symbol and mod podged it to the front and there you go, perfect size for a bunch of 5 and 6 year olds.

If it had been an indoor party I probably would have gone over the top...but we were working with a windy day so I did what I could.  The final bit that was the perfect touch...a friend of ours jumping out dressed as Mr. Incredible to 'save the day'!  He posed with the kids for pics and helped with the pinata.  The cake, or no cake, was a piled high plate of cupcakes.  It is funny to me that I make cakes, am known as the cake lady, and my kids don't like cake!  They like my icing and like cakes in small doses but that's it, they prefer ice cream cakes or other desserts...I'm ok with that, less pressure while I am also hosting :)

See all the capes...so cute!

Skaterboy picked our shirts

Super snack!

They got to decorate masks and create Super hero names

The Villains of the party.

See the Batman pinata before we hung it?

Posing in their capes!

Even Little Miss M got a hit!

It was a blast but a lot of work.  I'm glad Little Miss M is next and only turning 2...a nice, quiet party at home coming this weekend.



Thanks for stopping by!

Craft Day at the F House

I have to say this was such a great weekend with Crazies!  Coming off of sickness and a very busy week for Prince Char it was so nice to have nothing to do...except craft.  We even got the Prince in on the action and he pulled out his inner artist.

We made some hand print 'mini canvas' art for my upcoming Valentine's Mantle.  Then Diva and Skaterboy painted pictures to go with the theme.  I worked on (yes, another) chalkboard tray--(can you say addicted?), a wreath (which I am not loving and will have to fix) and a Tie T-shirt for Skaterboy.  I have seen them on the blog world and LOVE!  Skaterboy jumps back and forth between 'skater' and 'preppy' depending on the mood and he is now into ties, but of course doesn't like them tied around his neck so this is perfect!  I may go on a binge and make a ton of them for he and his cousin...just sayin. 

Now the Pièce de résistance....the mailbox!  We just switched ours out for a new one and Skaterboy quickly claimed the old one for himself, not quite sure why.  I think it is supposed to be the dog house for his Pluto.  Anyway, this was he and dad's special project of the day and I think it turned out too cute!  Gotta love it when my guys get into their artistic groove.  And this is how our table looked by the end of the day....I seriously need a bigger table.

Prince is finishing Airborne school this week.

Love it!!!