Sarah's Sprinkle!

Yesterday I hosted a "Sprinkle" for my sister Sarah!  She is having her 3rd child and it's a girl too!   Our due dates are only about 2 wks apart!  At first Sarah didn't seem to want a shower, but I told her that wasn't an option :-)  I told her we could just have a sprinkle, get it?  Like a shower only smaller.  I had SO much fun putting this together!  Words can't express how excited I am for my sister and her husband.  I'm also beyond THRILLED that Quinn with have a girl cousin to grow up with!  Sarah I hope you had a wonderful time and thank you for letting me throw you a party!!!!!!!!!  I LOVE you SO incredibly much!

Here are all the little details!

 This was the dessert table I set up!  There were glass vases filled with sugary goodness!  Along with a cake, Lemonade cupcakes with whipped vanilla icing, popcorn boxes with cocoa kettle corn, and purple peeps!  On each side of the cake there was a bird house I had painted to match the colors.  I LOVE  my knew cake plate!  I'm so excited to be able to switch out ribbon to match every theme!

Here are close ups of the candy vases and their labels.  We had M&M's, Sixlets, Grape Mike & Ikes', Gum Balls, Chocolate Twizzlers and Cookies & Creme Eggs!

Here is a closer picture of the cake I made!  Sarah wanted chocolate, so I gave her chocolate!  The bottom tier was a chocolate fudge cake with alternating layers of chocolate pudding and chocolate frosting.  Then each layer also had sliced strawberries!  The top tier was an orange pound cake with chocolate frosting.  The fondant was homemade chocolate fondant made from marshmallows!  The ribbon, birds and egg were made from MMF as well and then hand painted.

These were the take home goody bags.  To keep with the bird them I used a stamp with birds on it.  I lucked out with this stamp to.  It says "All you need is LOVE".  Sarah is a HUGE Beatles fan!  So this was perfect!  Then using brown ink I stamped Thank You at the bottom.  Everyone was invited to take goodies home with them.

 Here is a close up of the Sign I made for above the table.  Sticking with the bird theme and the fact that Ms. Indecisive still can't pick a name; it says "Tweet Lil Girl!"

 Here is the "guest" table.  I used a purple plastic table cloth and then put a piece of fabric on top of it.  It's hard to tell in the pic, but it's white with tiny purple dots forming stripes down the fabric.  On the table I place thank you cards and invited everyone to address them.  I had already written Sarah's return address on them.  So all she has to do is write in the card and stick a stamp on!

Here is the invitation that inspired EVERYTHING!  I also had two more bird houses and a bowl with pink and white swirled suckers.

Here is the guest book I made.  Inside there was a place for each guest to sign and leave their address.  There is also a gift log, space for Sarah to write her favorite memories and blank pages in the back she can put some pictures in.

Hanging from the tree were little tags that read "Tweet Wishes for Baby Capps".  Everyone was encouraged to leave a wish for baby!

35 wk check up!

Yesterday was my last 2 wk appointment! We were lucky enough to get another sonogram. Quinn's head is down, WAY down. Our sonographer was trying to get a good view of her head to see if she has hair, but her head was so far down she couldn't get a good view! We have a great amount of ambiotic fluid and Quinn is still measuring right on target, weighing approximately 5.25 lbs (in the 50%).

I got my first checkup from my Dr. I'm dilated to 2 cm and 50% effaced. I wasn't sure if that was good or indifferent, but when I asked Dr. Perryman expressed that it was great progress for 35 wks and my first pregnancy. I guess Quinn's already an over achiever! :-) Next Friday I start going to the Dr once a wk! We shall see if we've progressed any further.

Shower-palooza

I didn't realize how long it's been since I've posted something!  I'm sure there is lots to share, but for now we'll start with our 2 wonderful showers! 

First up is Courtney and Mom!  Thank you BOTH SO MUCH for an amazing shower!  I know you both put a LOT of work and thought into all of the planning and details!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'd also like to thank Dotti for getting us the space, you are a wonderful person and I'm SO glad to have you as part of our extended family.

With my love for monkeys this HAD to be a monkey themed shower!  The palm trees were absolutely adorable!  This was a whole family effort too!  Mom, Bob and Courtney worked together to make this.  The adorable burp cloths were made by mom!

 Here is the cake Court had made!  The frosting tasted AMAZING!  Mom made a delicious punch!  I think I drank half the bowl :-)  There were meatballs, dip, chocolate covered strawberries, fresh pineapple and chocolate covered bananas!!!!!!!

Quinn got SO many precious outfits! There were so many that the pile of laundry was about 2 feet high and covered about 3.5 feet wide! We started stacking it on top of the dresser and VERY quickly realized we needed a hamper! We were also luck enough to receive a boopy, her car seat, and her bouncy seat!




Thank you to EVERYONE who helped out and was able to come!!!!!!!!


There were SO many people who helped out with my next shower! Thank you Erin for all of your creativity, hosting it at your house and the AMAZING cakes! My sister who I love dearly for all you did, April who is now a professional pom pon maker, Tina for putting together the games and gifts, Shirley for the ridiculous diaper decor and all of my friends who helped bring food and set up!

 This was the guest table.  Each guest was asked to leave a parenting tip (from a wise owl) on a card and hang it from the tree.  Quinn's piggy bank was also on the table, along with the guest book and envelopes for the thank you cards.

 This is the dessert table!  Erin made my FAVORITE cake mojito along with an orange mocha cake, which is now one of my top 5!  There were owl cookies, twizlers, orange slices, gum balls, sixlets, chocolate covered pomogranetes, and SO much more!  Then there were also goody bags for everyone to take some home!

 These are the ADORABLE diaper decorations Shirley made.  I have NEVER seen any diaper decor this stinkin cute!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to EVERYONE for the PHENOMENAL showers!  I've never felt so loved by my friends and family!!!!!

Sean's 29th Birthday

This past weekend we celebrated Sean's 29th Birthday!  We started off the weekend by going out with some amazing friends on Saturday.  As we all know Sean's not much of a drinker, so every year I try to come up with something he'll enjoy.  Well for the past several months all he's talked about is going to Flying Saucer for their Beer Brat Con Queso.  Every time I mention going he comes up with a reason we shouldn't.  So I decided this was where we needed to go!  Thank you to all of our AMAZING friends who were able to make it out!  Sean had a wonderful time and I know it meant a lot to him.

Sunday was his actual birthday, so we did a family dinner at the house!  Boy did I learn a big lesson that day!  I am 34 wks pregnant and not super women.  After spending the whole morning cleaning up the house and the afternoon shopping for a stereo for Quinn; I was EXHAUSTED!  By the time dinner was ready my feet were SO swollen you couldn't even see the veins in my and I couldn't spread my toes apart. Not to mention my back was killing me! It was TRULY horrible!  I definitely learned I can't be on my feet running around all day.  However, I think Sean had a wonderful time!  We had lots of family there. For dinner we had Indian Tacos, YUM!  Then for dessert I made him a poke cake. We used strawberry-banana Jello on one cake and Pineapple on the other.  Then for filling and frosting I made a banana mousse!  I must say it was pretty darn delicious!  Sean also got his favorite cheese cake, lemon-raspberry!  He decided he wanted one just for us.  He was afraid if we made that the dessert he'd only get one piece :-) 

Happy Birthday Hubbers!  Hope you had a phenomenal weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miss Quinn Proves to be Stuborn AGAIN :-)

 On Saturday, February 19th we had our 3-D sonogram!!!!!! I was SO excited to see our little. With no surprise to Sean or myself, she wasn't in a cooperative mood. She was all snuggled up nice and tight with her hands and arms by her face. Our sonographer had me move, we jiggled my belly to try and get her to move her hands. She's such a little stinker.


As a last resort she had Sean place a VERY cold bottle of water on my belly. Can I just say he did an amazing job!!!!!! While Quinn still had one arm over half of her face, he was able to get her to move the other! Her nose looks a little smooshed, I'm


guessing from the pressure of the instrument and Sean with the water bottle, but H\here are a few pics!

The Midwest Blizzard of 2011!

What CrAzY weather we had yesterday day!!!!!!! The news said an average of 8 inches across the metro. Before we went to bed Sean went out to out back yard with a yard stick and got variations of 12-12.5" on our patio.

Sean works every other weekend at the bank and this is his weekend. So, to make up for it he gets Tuesday off. This meant we were both able to be home snuggled up on the couch for the day! Well, at least after about 10 am. I woke up at 7 and by 7:30 decided I'd make a quick run to the store for some milk, eggs and baking g supplies. At this point the weather was just beginning. However, when Sean heard the garage open he came RUNNING downstairs to find out where in the world I was going. This lead to a very brief discussion about me not driving and him coming along as my chauffeur. On the upside we got WAY more than I had planned to get and he paid. The downside is my 15 minute trip to the store ended up being an hour followed by a trip to the bank.

We spent the rest of our morning snuggled on the couch watching movies. Then Sean headed outdoors for an hour of shoveling. After he shoveled our drive he helped our phenomenal neighbor Kurt shovel a few of our elderly neighbor's drives. By the time they had finished, you couldn't even tell he'd shoveled our drive!!!!!

While Sean was busy doing manual labor, I decided to start working on baking our  Fudge Lovers Strawberry Truffle Cake!!!!!!!  Let me just say it is AMAZING!  Today, on this snow day I plan to work on some details for Sarah's shower and bake her birthday cake! 

Sarah's Shower!!!!!!!

I'm guessing this will come as NO shock to any of you whom know me well, but I've be obsessing over my sister's baby shower! We are both expecting little girls and our due dates are only 2 wks apart! I am in FULL planning mode now and with my new found love Etsy, I’ve been able to get a custom made invitation; allowing me to design a shower unlike anyone else’s!

Along with my new love I have also found MANY blogs and sites out there FULL of inspirations and DIY tips and tricks. As much as I want to post everything I’ve done so far, I want to keep some of it a surprise for momma to be. So, as much as I want to start posting pictures you’ll just have to wait until after her shower in April.

But just for a teaser here is her invite designed by Mary.





The bedding she has picked is a bird theme and I decided to use that as the theme for the shower as well. Thanks to Mary at Trinity StStudio I have a PHENOMENAL invitation and printing rights to the image. This will allow me to make custom thank you notes, decorations and tags for the shower. I must say Mary has been amazing throughout the last 2 weeks. I’m a bit of a perfectionist and control freak, surprise. She has bent over backwards to make sure everything, for the wording to the colors was just how I imagined it. I can’t wait to start making decorations and purchasing items for the shower!