Brittany's {Born to Ride} Baby Shower

Brittany is my little sister. Two years ago, when she was pregnant with her daughter, my sister-in-law and my mom and I threw her a baby shower. Jill and I flew out to California just for her shower...her water broke the morning we flew out there.

Here it is two years later, and we decided to throw her shower a little earlier this time to avoid the whole water-breaking-having-a-baby-shower-in-the-hospital thing. Unfortunately baby boy didn't get the memo, and her water broke three days before the shower.

Everything worked out fine in the end, her son Mason was a preemie, born at 34 weeks and after two weeks in nicu came home healthy and happy. So before my mom flew back home, we put on the baby shower a little later than intended, and with a special baby guest in attendance.

Brittany's husband rides dirtbikes, so it was only natural that we had a motorcycle themed baby shower.

I had so much fun with this shower, and the fact that it was done right around the fourth of July made the color scheme pretty easy!

We had some super fun and yummy motorcycle chocolate molds. These were a hit and my kids especially loved them. One of the perks/downfalls of being the hostess, you get to keep all the left over sweets at home. My kids love that part, my waistline, not so much.

How perfect was this sign that I found at hobby lobby? We'd actually already decided on the colors when I found it, so it was just meant to be!

The little guys stats from when he was born, he was a pretty big boy for only 34 weeks!

No laughing at this next photo, alright?

These are my very sad attempt at chocolate covered oreos. In case you can't tell, they're supposed to be wheels. The did not in any way turn out like I had pictured them in my head, but they still tasted great!

The dessert table, with some photos of the man of the hour. Such a sweet little guy!

I made some bags to take home sweets in. You have to make them nice and big so people can load them up with lots of goodies.

Mason's banner, made in the shape of they Harley-Davidson sign.

And some more decor for the party.

When you have a motorcycle themed shower, you have to have root beer and pretzels, chocolate covered of course.

This photo actually shows the wrapped nuggets, but the pretzels were on the other side.

My sister-in-law came up with a fun game of guessing the motorcycle throughout the years, it was way harder than I thought it would be. But those are some pretty cool looking bikes!

I took the pictures too early, and thus, none of the new mom. But she was beaming and happy to finally be home and relaxing with her new baby boy. He's a doll, and we love having him here!

Fathers day

I'm going to jump back in time a little bit here and try to catch up on everything I've missed this summer. I've been a bad blogger, and I'm blaming summer fun, and summer of seals for my laziness!:)

Way back in june, we got to celebrate one amazing man.

Dad, or Kevin, or Daddy, or whatever we may feel like calling him that particular day.

We had a delish breakfast, but it was quick cause he had meetings and had to get out the door. The kids all made him cards, and I made him a book that the kids all helped me fill out.

He didn't open it when I first gave it to him, and when I asked why, he said that it was because he thought it was just a book I bought at the store. I'll take that as a compliment.:)

We had so much fun filling it out and answering the questions. Such a fun and easy gift!

Halli wrote her own answers, bad spelling and 2nd grade handwriting, I love it.

We also got each of the kids handprints.

I loved Peyton and Lexie's answers, these kids are such crack ups.

Even JJ had a little page or two.

The best part was that shutterfly had a sale, so I got the book for free, and just paid shipping!:)

We adore that man of ours, and wish he could be home lots more so that we could just play with him all the time. For now, we'll just have to soak up what we can get though, and take lots of pictures to remember it all.

One

Somehow, it actually happened, and I can't believe it.

Our little man turned one. You'd think I'd be used to this, we've done it three times. But it still felt like it snuck up on me.

We celebrated all week. We had cake for pictures, we had cupcakes on his birthday, and we had cake yet again at his birthday party. We like our sweets around this part!:)

He is such a happy, squishy, huggable little guy. I just don't know what we'd do without him.

He took his first steps about a week before his birthday, and this past week, at 12.5 months, he's officially walking everywhere. Such a bittersweet time. I love watching my babies grow up, and get more independent, but I hate it all at the same time. Watching him waddle around the house made me kinda sad that I won't see him crawling anymore, and I've NEVER been sad to see the crawling stage end.

He gives sweet, slobbery kisses. He loves anything with buttons, he LOVES to be held, (and at 25lbs, that gets old quick), he adores his sisters, and when he gets really happy he smiles and squints so much that his eyes are basically closed....sweetest thing ever!

Happy birthday little JJ, we are so incredibly in love with you!

She's a little firecracker

A little over a week ago, our little miss Lex turned 3!

She's a bit of a firecracker that one. Alot spunky, alot stubborn, and alot cute. Thank heavens for that cute part, I don't know that I could handle her otherwise. So, we decided to do a firecracker themed birthday party.

It was very colorful, very bright and lots of fun...except for the whole fireworks party without fireworks. There's a ban here in houston this year due to the drought. How great is that timing?

I think we had tons of fun despite of that little fact.

There were cupcakes with curly Q toppers, lollipops, and lots and lots of candy.

There are lots and lots of party pictures ahead.

I got to use my homemade cupcake stands again, love those things!

The whole set-up minus the cake. It was a little warm out and I didn't want the frosting to melt too much.

There it is, a very tall, white cake, kinda stands out amongst all that color.

The kids were all in heaven and loved grabbing some treats. Lexie especially loved the dessert buffet, talk about heaven for her!

She was in and out of the pool all night and always had candy in hand.

Thank heavens for inlaws with a large pool.

I put a little banner up behind the pool too.

The kids all had so much fun, I love watching these kids grow up. Kinda bittersweet.

My little sisters water broke at 32 weeks, and my mom flew out to help. The baby was actually born the day of the birthday party, talk about a full day for grandma! Since the new mom and dad were at the hospital, my mom was able to bring the new big sister with her too.

Lexie and her wonderful daddy who, although he doesn't necessarily encourage me to go all out like I do, at least he doesn't try to stop me!:)

I just thought this picture was cute with the water splashing as they high-fived.

Lexie had some of her best buddies there, these are such cute girlies, love them all!

Izzy, Lexie and Brookie

My sister-in-law and her baby adelyn, such a sweet little girl!

We loved getting to have the Kirkhams at one last party before they moved to Chicago, the girls are going to miss their little friends!

Little miss LaNea, another niece who, I have to keep reminding myself, is younger than she looks! I always think of her as being Lexies age, when in fact she's closer to JJ's.

The only fireworks of the night were on Lexies cake. I had planned on having an evening swim party followed by fireworks once it got dark. Due to the ban, that didn't happen, but we had to have a little somethin'!

Make a Wish!

Underneath that plain white frosting were six layers of super fun color! I love colorful cakes!

We had such a fun night, and loved celebrating our little lexie with so many of our friends and family. I don't know what we'd do without this sweet munchkin in our lives. She sure does keep things interesting!