Cash's First Splashes

Getting ready to go to the pool!

This boy loves the pool!

Cash finally crashed after his long day at the pool!

We went to the pool for the first time! The child loves the water! Which he has no choice being the child of two fish! I love the water and so does Craigan! I hope this is true in the years to come!

Kelly's Bridal Shower

Wow, that is all I can say....Not really, thank you so much to all the girls who helped me with the shower! I had a great set of hostesses, along with myself, to help me with all the intricate details of this shower, and trust me there was quite a few! I think it went over very well and I could not have been happier with the food, turn out, and the cake that my mother and I made! Well Lesley did roll "little balls" LOL ( inside joke), for the cake! Megan, Lesley, Alicia, and I made the cupcakes, all 42 of them, last night. Lesley, my mom, and I started on the cake right afterwards and went until 3 a.m.. We woke up and went straight back to work on everything this morning! I planned to be done with everything early, well that didn't happen! I was running around like a crazy person! Then my mother-in-law and her brother came by to get Cash to take him to the mall while all of this was going on at the house! I have never let anyone take him anywhere, I mean nobody, I cried like a baby worried sick about him! I knew he was in good hands but it was hard to let him go. Dealing with the stress of him and the shower, it was so overwhelming! So, back to the shower (sorry this is going to be a long post), the hostesses were myself, Lesley, Megan, Randi (kell's sis), and Elizabeth, we had a blast planning this whole shower! I custom designed the invites and thanks to Brandon(bphillipsphotography.com) he made it come to life! They were amazing!!! I also painted a plate for her at Firefly, so that it could serve as her "guest book", all the guests signed it and said a few good words of advice! It turned out to be so cute! Then we decided that we would get Thank You cards for her, so everyone that came through the door put their address on a stamped envelope and then at the end we gave them to Kelly! That way all she had to do was write a thank you and drop them in the mail! She loved this idea! Thanks to Lesley's dad for the stamps too! Then, as you probably guessed, her colors were pink and black, so we stuck with that color theme all the way down to the food. On the food table we had boiled shrimp, chocolate covered strawberries, pink punch, spinach dip, cucumber sandwiches(out of this world good), vegetable and fruit trays, pinwheels, and the cake/cupcakes! It looked great! Lastly, I HAD to make favors! I think it is tacky to not give favors and so I thought this to be a necessity! So I made "Lovesicles", they were soap blocks that I melted down, dyed pink, and poured them into popsicle molds. I stuck popsicle sticks in them, let them dry, bought cellophane candy bags to wrap them in, made the sitckers from sticker paper, and tied them off with tulle. I was very happy with the result! All in all, the shower was beautiful, Kelly got a ton of good gifts, and the food was great! Thanks again to all the people who had a hand in helping me with this shower, I couldn't have done it without you!

Hostesses and Kelly

From Left: Megan, Lesley, Kelly, Me, Randi, and Elizabeth

Food Table

Cupcake Cake

"Thank You" card entry table

The "Lovesicle" favors

Plate before guests signed....

After the guests signed

The guests

Kelly and Me

It's Raining Babies and Brides!!!

So far this spring/summer, I have been really busy with hosting baby and bridal showers! My best friend Ashley is having a baby girl and I was a hostess for her baby shower in April, my sister-in-law, Shelly, is having a little boy and her shower was today, and I am already planning my best friend's bridal shower, which will be held at my house, in two weeks! Not to mention the showers I have been invited to that I didn't host! Shelly's shower went well today. She got quite a bit of stuff, had a great turn out, and the food table/cake was really cute. I had the cake made by a lady that was referred to me and she did a great job! I thought it was adorable! I also made washcloth candies, I love these! You can see one behind the cake in the picture below. Her friend Nicole, another hostess, made an adorable diaper cake too! Although Max was in NICU, Shelly seemed to have a good time visiting with her friends and family! We all have been praying that Max will go home soon and be a big healthy boy before we know it! Shelly opened all her gifts and then said a few words about Max's situation and how her belief in Jesus Christ is what is getting her through this, he has carried her through some other situations in her life and right now she is relying heavily on Him, family, and friends! By the end she had all of us in tears, Max is still doing great and thriving! We continue praying for his health and for him to go home soon!

Hostesses and Shelly: (from left to right) Dana, Me, Shelly, Nicole, Shannon

The Cake with Max's Monogram

The Adorable Diaper Cake (there are some washcloth candies in this pic too)

Me and Shelly

Shelly, her mother Linda, sister Susan, and niece Reagan

Carol our mother-in-law, Me, and Shelly

Baby Max Is Here

Max had his little eyes open! He is too cute!
I made this for Max to hang in his room!

Sweet Baby!

Today Cash's little cousin was brought into the world 2 months early. He weighed 4lbs.. His name is Max, this is my husbands brother and wife's child. He is adorable and in the NICU doing excellent! They expect him to be just fine and Shelly, his mother my sister-in-law, is doing great as well!