Jess' Bridal Shower

Yesterday I threw Jessica a bridal shower filled with favorite things--both her and Hugo's favorite things as well as things from the Sound of Music song.  For the decor, I had a backdrop, raindrops on roses, bright copper kettles, warm woolen mittens, snowflakes, and some of Hugo and Jessica's favorite things about each other along with pictures of them.

For the food, I served mini tacos, taquitos, 7 layer dip, mexican fiesta pasta salad, chocolate chip cookies, and cupcakes with "girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes" toppers.

Our games were kept fairly simple.  For the first one, each guest wrote a memory they had about Jessica.  We read them all out loud and Jessica had to guess who wrote each one.  Any that she didn't guess correctly, the author got a prize.  The second game was he said/she said where everyone had to guess whether Hugo or Jessica said various statements.

As thank you gifts, I had brown paper packages tied up with strings which were filled with chocolate covered pretzels.

What a fun time we had celebrating Jessica's engagement to Hugo!

Bean Museum Fieldtrip

Leila's preschool had a fieldtrip to the Bean Museum yesterday.  I was a little nervous for her because the last time we took her there she was completely freaked out by all the animals and lasted about 10 minutes before we had to book it out of there.  Thankfully having her friends there helped.  Plus most of the time was spent in a classroom with one of the employees teaching them about different animals.  And they got to see/pet live animals instead of just looking at the stuffed ones.  Leila was especially fascinated with the lizard that stores food in its tail.

Luau for Grandma

My siblings and I teamed up to throw my mom a birthday luau yesterday for our family dinner.  I cooked the kalua pork and brought the decor.  And yes, I have a box full of Hawaiian decor that gets used quite a bit.

Hau'oli La Hanau Mom!