Pinterest.

For those of you who are unaware of the beauty that is "pinterest", well you are truly missing out. I started seeing posts about pinterest on some of the blogs I follow, and naturally I needed to look into it. Well let's just say it was right up my ally! It's essentially a site full of different "ideas" of various subjects [recipes, crafts, kid stuff, home decor...etc]. Let's just say, I am hooked! I've decided as to not bore the heck out of people, I'll just post my top 5 every Friday. (Oh look, today's Friday?!) Perfect.

Caramel & Sea Salt Shortbread, can you say YUUUM.

Love this idea, as a matter of fact, grabbing a frame tonight my way home from work to do a "Johnson Family" one :).

Loove the idea of scouting out different letters and completing this awesome wall decoration! It would be great in a playroom...

Don't these look amazingly refreshing on a hot summer day?

I love love love this cake! It makes me so happy, I cannot wait to make this around Christmas time with some green trees.

There you have it, my Pinterest choices for the week!

Gotta love the three day weekend. Mine will be full of picnics, swimming & good ol' fashioned relaxin'.

a Blue's Clue's celebration!

I'm trying to post in "order" of occurences, however I am still working on our Wedding day post. I'm sure you all understand that one is the most time consuming. :)

We celebrated Hunter's b-day a few weekends ago, and took the opportunity to break in the new house. It turned out to be a gorgeous day so naturally, the festivities took place in our backyard.

I tossed around a ton of birthday party themes and although I found some absolutely adorable ones (future ideas?)...and of course I decided on Hunter's current fav. I figured this was the perfect way to transition OUT of Blue's Clue's.. with one last hurrah! Because the show is a little "older", it was harder to find stuff with the actual theme on it. This was fine, I was up to the challenge.

I found a lot of various blue colored items (tablecloths, silverware, streamers, cups) and decorated the backyard. Then, I created a "candy bar", where I filled several glass vases with blue colored candy. This became the party favor for the kiddos. I found these little shovel/pail sets online (get it, Shovel & Pail are characters on the show). Our next area was a table with some leftover bubble containers from the wedding (to "blow bubbles" with Slipper Soap (another character). Another table was set up with some crayons and some print outs of the different characters. This one was labeled "Test your drawing skills with Steve".

We also had one of those bounce house things... to keep the kids amused. It was hit!

Hunter got some great gifts and to be with our friends and family it reminded us of how blessed we really are.

Now for some pics!



I made little bags of Puppy Chow for everyone to take home. I glued the recipe to the front of the bag, in case anyone wanted to recreate this tasty treat.

The refreshment table

Magenta's "Marvelous" Fruit Punch & Blue's "Berry-Good" Lemonade!

Some Blue Clue's cookies shaped like dog bones...

A basket full of snacks for the little ones, and the bubble blowing table

The "Candy Bar"

The snack/food table. We decided to do toddler favorites... Pizza, mini hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls, macaroni and cheese and build your own fruit skewers with chocolate & cream cheese dippings.



It was a great way to ring in year # 2 for my sweetie pie :)

Catch Up!

So, a few things have happened since I last posted. Some pretty BIG ones I might mention. More to come on some of the areas, but for now I'll focus on just playing catch up.

First and foremost, we got hitched!


Yes, on 5/21 I married my best friend. It turned out to be such a beautiful day & having our family and friends there to celebrate with us made it even better! I will absolutely have more to post/pictures on this. We just got our Photo CDs from our photographer & although the site she created for us has been open for a few weeks now, I have only gotten as far as printing/framing some of my fav's. Once I get around to it, I will get those up here and on facebook.

Whew.

Another pretty "Big" thing is that we moved! We said good-bye to the middle of nowhere and moved within a 15 mile radius from my mom, my mother in law, and both sets of sister/brother in laws. (Not to mention my Aunt, Uncle... and all of our friends!). So needless to say the move was filled with happiness and we love our new house and location. I did some major re-decorating, so definately more to come on those projects.

We celebrated Hunter's second birthday...(it fell on a day when we were still at the old house, all packed up!) so his actual second birthday took place with some ice cream cake surrounded by boxes. Don't feel too bad for the little guy, we did throw him a Birthday Party at our new house (More to come on that!)

We added a furry new member to our family. A 9 month old Beagle we named Buckley. (Buck for short). There's a small story behind that.. more on that later.


In a nutshell, that was our busy month. I will post more on the Wedding...Birthday Party, and some pics of the new house/decorating over the next few days! Life has been so busy, and it didn't help that we just got our internet turned on at the new place :).