Getting my face painted

After painting a bunch of kiddos today I got to come home and get MY face pained by my princess...Like mother like daughter. I let her use a $5.00 eyeshadow compact from Wet n Wild. I really liked that one too.What was I thinking..oh well, good thing it wasn't Christian Dior LOL!

Grandma's 75th Surprise birthday party

My Grandmother turned 75 this past Valentine weekend and we surprised the heck out of her! She didn't see it coming and that alone was a difficult thing to do. She lives in palm Springs so, just getting all of the guests out there was half the battle. We had 2 months to plan this shindig about 2 1/2 hours to set everything up before the guests started arriving.

Here are the highlights....

 

This is what she saw plus about 20 more around the corner

We made her wear a funny hat..it was sooo her.

Here is my Auntie aka THE MASTERMIND behind this massive surprise. She took Grandma out for a day of beauty even though she was sick and recovering from a car accident...she really is the energizer BUNNY lol inside joke....she keeps going and going and going

My beautiful cousin aka THE DIRECTOR who made it all happen with her new hubby who she threw in the kitchen to make all of the yummy salads and participate in "craft time" at home tee hee...

 

and me with my super supportive hubby who helped me with the kids and helped do all of the manual labor for the party. We celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary on Valentine's Day by recovering from this super busy weekend.

 

My big boy...helped make these cute brownie picture frames.

 

 The kids taking advantage of the pretty champagne glasses to drink their juice out of...how fun!

  

 Grandma talking with the little princess about all of the notepads grandma had for her so she could leave little love notes all over the house like last time we visited.

Here the kids are playing in one of the sand traps on the golf course. I'm sure the grounds keeper hated us the next day.There were about 15 great grandkids out there playing...kids will be kids right?

The kids with their Great Grandma..priceless!

 Grandma and her picture cake. She was and is still so beautiful!

All of us girls. This is a traditional pic we take every time we're all together minus the heart glasses of course 

; ) It was a GREAT day spent with friends and family and most of all the people we love, all together for a most wonderful celebration.

Happy 75th birthday Grandma WE LOVE YOU!

Baby Princess

I just came across this pic of my sweet little baby Princess from 3 years ago...My how time flies. I still see her this way and wish I could just freeze time especially when she tells me that she's a big girl now. This has got to be one of my favorite pics of her.

Retro felt project for kids

Do you remember the smell of your kindergarten classroom? How about the feeling of nap time on a cot with fifteen other tired kids or being grossed out by the kid who ate paste so, you tried it too and to your surprise it was almost sweet.

 I seem to be able to remember these random wonderful things about being a kid but, when someone says oh do you remember so and so..I have no clue as to who they are talking about. I think I remember smells, tastes and sounds better than I do names and faces but, I digress...I came across this super awesome felt face tutorial by "Not JUST a housewife" via Random thoughts of a supermom and it brought back all of those warm fuzzy memories.

  

  This is definitely going on my project to do list for the kids. I even think my twelve year old will like it. He's more of the creative type anyway so, hopefully he won't think it's too lame. I think I may do this and pull it for on one of those times when the kids are going insane with boredom. I'm going to try to make mine look like people they know ie: Nana & Papa. hee hee

Face painting my little Princess

This is what we do on a daily basis now. It was all fun and games when we first started but, after a while face painting gets old so, I now have to trick my princess into being my little model. I tell her that we're going to surprise Nana with a new face painting, then we go next door and show off her cuteness and she loves it.
 Today she was Tinkerbell, Yesterday she was a flamingo who knows what tomorrow will bring?