.. an old man's celebration ..

over memorial day weekend i had the chance to go up to my grandparents house and celebrate my grandpa's 80th birthday. he is wonderful and grand, he is awesome and hilarious. we surprised him and told him we just wanted to come visit since we had a free day, little did he know that everyone - minus a missionary and my brother m* and his wife e* - showed up for lunch and a birthday celebration. 

we had pizza, salad and cupcakes. naturally cupcakes rule. 

{ here is the whole crew that came, big family huh? }

my grandparents have 5 kids, 12 grand kids and 1 great grand kid { soon to be 3. no i'm not prego, but my sister and my cousin m* are}

{ gramps, gg, uncle steve, uncle scott and my mom }

{ we tried to do a group hug picture, all my uncle could do is choke my gg and laugh! }

{ my handsome gramps and gorgeous grandma (hence the gg) }

These people are wonderful, I am so glad that I have such a wonderful family that I could share this with. so here is to you gramps, happy 80th birthday. hope it was great and wonderful to celebrate. the one great gift he got was the birth of his first great granddaughter on his birthday.

Happy birthday!!

.. steals on saturdays ..

alright, so i wanted to do something similar to freebie fridays, but that was already being abused let's be honest so we are going to do steals on saturdays. I will try my hardest to have something new and fun up every week, but for sure around the holidays. so this one is a chance to get the matching game i did at the baby shower so if you want to get your hands on this one - shoot me a comment or email and i will send it on over! 

happy weekend!!

.. le circus for bebe ..

so as you might have seen from my baby shower preview, a few weeks back my sil e* and i threw a baby shower for my sister k* who is due with a baby boy this month. don't worry there will be baby pictures here when he comes :). we decided on circus for the theme and went to work planning. we planned and worked on it for about 2 months. phew! but all the hard work paid off, the end result was so cute!

{ game at the door, it was guess how many circus peanuts go around her belly}

{ after the game, another game! matching mommies with babies. and part of the spread, cupcakes! }

{ chocolate cupcakes with buttercream icing, yum! }

{ pop of color with napkins }

{ fun little spot, we gave the suckers to the winners of the games }

{ no circus is complete without popcorn! }

{ drink bar, we had these little sodas and mini waters }

{ treat bar, we had little baggies and candies for them to take home, yum! }

All in all it turned out great, she got a bunch of cute clothes and goodies and we can't wait until he gets here. With any luck it will be in the next few weeks, she is already making progress - dilated to a 2 and 50% effaced. Almost baby time :)

congrats k*!

.. a flyer ..

a girl in my neighborhood is saving her pennies for girls camp. too cute. she asked me to help her do a flyer to advertise what she could do so she could get the money she needed to be able to go. here is what we came up with.

fun simple and clean. i wish her all the best in her savings adventure.

.. graduate ..

i was able to do graduation invites for a family member recently and they were also so fun! we were going for masculine but something people hadn't seen before. kinda rad right? 

don't you worry there will be a graduation post to follow :)

.. baby shower preview ..

just thought i would share one quick photo of the baby shower that went down this weekend. it was fun and turned out super cute. it was a lot of work, but it was so worth it. pictures of the whole thing to come :)

.. invite ..

recently i created some invites for a baby shower my sis-in-law and i were throwing for my younger sister who is having a boy. we did a circus theme and it turned out so cute. pictures to come, promise. but here is an example of the invite we did for her, it was super cute.

this was a fun invite to design, I loved the elements and the fact that i got to stamp on them.. too cute!