It's the Andrew Carnival!

Birthdays are always a little bittersweet for me. For the past three years on each birthday I have told myself this will be Drew's last birthday as an only child but the past three birthdays have come and gone and Drew is still very much an only child. I would love to say this year WILL be the last year Drew is an only child but, the truth is I don't know that. I can't say that Drew will ever be a sibling. And while that utterly breaks my heart, what fills my heart is the things I can say about my SUPER four year old.

- He is LOVED. Not just liked by friends and family but absolutely entirely loved wholly and incredibly by a large group of family and friends.

                                                                    

- He is Loving! He has begun to show his core principals of being caring, compassionate and loving of others. As a mom I couldn't be more proud of the person he is becoming. He thinks of others, wants to include others and is quick to dish out affection. (Seriously, who gets a call from school that their child got hurt initiating a group hug on the playground!)

- He is funny! He thinks of the  some new and witty to keep us laughing.

- He is Creative! For about six months when we would come home from work, Drew would create carnival games for us to play and hand us out prizes, so this years party I wanted to make a carnival themed birthday, but Drew is also opinionated and insisted that we do a super hero party so this momma combined them! 

Here is some more on Drew's party...

The theme while not conventional turned out great....

Our invite. Designed by Blue Egg Events

The Dessert Bar.......                               

The Candy Bar

The Cake by Pila's Cakery 

The backyard 

          The Games

Each game had prizes, we gave each child a bag when the came in to hold their prizes

Tattoos (because momma can't paint!)

Capes decorating station

And the hit of the party...thewater slide 

There were two photo op stations

station 1: indoor with super hero props

option 2: outdoor super hero photo booths made by my amazing hubby.

Drew is 4 and he is SUPER! (And I am a blessed Momma)

Love Is All You Need

 

It's been a long time since I've posted and the Emmons' family has been very busy. As usual work has been very consuming we just launched two major projects in January and February and I'm in the midst of three more large scale projects. While after a long day (VERY LONG!) I haven't had the energy to get close to a computer, I have been crafting (to keep sane) so I'm very excited to tell you show you what we've been working on. :) 

 We've also been trying for # 2 in the process. Since Drew was so easy to have we were certain that #2 would be a synch and we could plan our life. Once again God has reminded us that He is in control. After almost a year and half of trying the old fashion way, we've sought out some help. Fertility Treatments are no joke! Not only can they be physically demanding it's quite the emotional rollercoaster. I am so very thankful that I have the most amazing, loving, and humorous husband in the world! When life seems to be coming in at all corners he has been my steadfast rock. We are hopeful that we are getting close to finally being able to provide Drew a sibling and I'm learning to relax and enjoy the family that I have been blessed with. Letting Go and Letting God....

But back to the crafts... Here's a little sneak peak from Valentine's Day

Halloween Fun

Happy Halloween! We had a great time and here are a few pictures from our Pumpkin Carving Party...  I kept it very simple this year but wanted to still make it special for the little ones so starting at 9:30 pm the night before the party I made a few last minute decorations.  (The pictures aren't very good...my husband had an "accident" with our camera, so we no longer have one ...tears )

The frame in back was a great frame I picked up at a garage sale for $2, I had a smaller frame from Drew's birthday party that was orange and fit perfectly. I placed in it the great pumpkin my husband made me and it was the perfect backdrop.

I had picked up a few packages of these great Jolee's three dimensional Halloween stickers and was able to use them to make most of the decorations. I love crearting dimension. I added a sticker onto toothpicks to make some great Halloween toothpicks for the appetizers.

To hold the silverware, I spray painted a can orange and tied some ribbon I picked up at the dollar store around the center and topped it off with a spider sticker.

 I made some great food labels the same stickers, scrapbooking paper that I picked up at a garage sale. I got two complete tablets of amazing paper for fifty cents...score! I had some white glitter letters already that I used to create the labels.  To keep with the simplicity, we just picked up a few pizzas, and had some pasta (spider legs), salad and a few appetizers. It was perfect. 

To finish it off, I created some treatbags and cupcake toppers. I used some pumpkin doilies as a garland ...so easy and I left it up for Thanksgiving. :) We played games (apple bobbing, donut eating contest, ping pong ball toss. I found some great spooky eye ping pong balls from the Dollar Store). Finally we carved our pumpkins of course!!!

My Big Bad Wolf