Valentine's Day School Parties

Today being the last school day before Valentine's Day, of course,

it was the kids parties at school.
I made it to Brooklin's but unfortunately, I didn't get to make Kameron's. Due to the time of his party, I had a conflict with picking up Shine and an alterations appointment for her Winter Formal dress...that's is another post for another day very soon.

I did make Brooklin's party and had a blast.
Kinder's are so much fun. Here's some pics of our morning.
(I took a lot more pics of more than just of Brooklin, but
am very careful about posting pictures of other children on the internet,
unless I know the parent doesn't mind).

This is Brooklin with her basket of Valentine goodies for her friends...

She loved giving all her Valentines to her class friends...

Station fun...
"Love Potion" station, "Conversation Hearts Math"(smart teacher, they didn't even know they were doing "math"), color the hearts station, and my favorite, an adorable wearable art project.
You'll see below...So cute!!!

Brooklin has been saying for two weeks..."Mom, you can be my Valentine!"
Of course, I said "Yes."

She's working so hard on her project...

Tada!!! See what I mean...how cute is that?
If you look closely, you can see the arms out to the sides
with little hands attached.
By far, my favorite...the kids wore these outside as the parents picked them up after school, however, I missed that because, I locked my keys in the car just minutes after I left her school after her party. By the time I got to her, she was in the office with her heart sitting by the front desk in a chair..talk about feeling small.
UURRGGHH!!! Again, another story for another day!!!

This is a close-up of Brooklin's Valentine's she passed out to her friends.

Another version...it's a flower with a Blow Pop sucker as the center attached to a small painted, glittered,wood piece, with a ticket stub as a tag with Brooklin's name.
They were very girly. Sorry boys!! Enjoy the sucker!!

Here are the supplies that I used for Brooklin's
Valentine's..

These are little wood pieces I picked up at Michaels for .69 cents.
I poked a hole in the top with my Crop-A-Dile to tie the ribbon through.


A gift for Mrs. Horton...a notebook, note cards, and a fun matching pen.Even though I didn't get to make it to Kameron's party, here's his Valentine's for his friends.
OK, he had rules for me in my creativity.
"What? Rules in my creativity? That's the craziest thing I have ever heard!!!"
"OK, OK..I will listen."

"NO PINK ALLOWED AND NO RIBBBON!!!"
So I thought I was doing pretty good so far...UNTIL.. he noticed the tiny shredded tissue in the bottom of the bag..darn!! How'd he see that?
This was a BIG request, I mean really, after all it's Valentines day and no pink and no ribbon? How do you even do that?
So I chose the phone a friend option...I called in Aunt Sheri!!
She created the bag topper for me from her digi stash...whew!! for me..I was safe, other than the ribbon issue, which I had already purchased some what I thought was "safe" ribbon, but it was still ribbon..so I opted for staples...urgh!!
So here's the finished product!! He liked them and so did I.

We had a great day!! I love having days with my kids like that.
We don't realize how much it means to them.
They love having mom at school, well, at least let me believe that. I know Kinder's do anyway.
Hope you got to spend the day with your kids at school parties.

Speaking of school parties, Shine has her Freshman Winter Formal tomorrow night.
I will be posting pics within the next couple days.
Oh my!! Anyone know a counselor or have something to put me out for the next few years. lol!!
Just kidding!! I am embracing it and it's a whole new learning experience, that I insist on enjoying.

So come back for a visit soon!!

Til next Time with T!!!

Scrap Tiffany-Week 6-Celebrations

This post is for the challenge this week with Scrap Tiffany.
Yesterday I posted the previous week..Sorry to be so confusing.
Week 6 was on "Celebrations".
It could be anything, birthday, anniversary, wedding, whatever.
So I decided to do a layout on my Shine's 14th birthday party.
We had soooo much fun. Yes, we!! I felt like a kid again.
Here's the layout, then I will post the fun we had...

Close-up of the bottom half of the layout....

Close up of the top half...

Yes, that is a lot of pics on that page but that was also a lot of girls,
a lot of hours, a little trouble(we won't talk about that on here though, just in case the girls moms are visiting here, Hi Mom!!!)
and a whole lot of fun.

We started the night with the girls meeting at our house for pizza(you must have food for an all-nighter), then we left and made the girls go on a scavenger hunt, they had to go to 6 different locations with their adult drivers(I'm not stupid, always more than one, just in case the girls tie the other one up), they had to fight for a seat in one of the cars after running out of the house and throwing their overnight bag in the back, that my friend was crazy.

Once in the car they received their first clue, the driver could not drive off without them figuring out where they were to go(the driver knew the locations, no wild goose chases that night, well not yet anyway). They only had a picture to go on, no words(just in case someone couldn't read, jk!), the first one was a pic of a star and a buck(deer)(if you know me, you know where that is). They had to get their 2 adult drivers their
favorite drink(hey, I'm not stupid, I knew we had a a long night ahead).

That took a few minutes, then they caught on. As the driver drove, the other one had to tell them what their mission was inside the location, then once they got there, the extra driver had to get out with them to take pictures of everything(uh! did you forget one of my fav things is pictures), then we made 5 other stops like that.
Other stops and tasks were...

• doing a catwalk in high heels at Payless Shoes,
• putting a pair of PINK thong underwear on their head insideVictoria's Secret long enough to get a pic,
• Red Robin and tie a balloon to their wrist and take a pic with the hostess,
• Borders/take a pic of their group reading the children's book,"Where the Wild Things Are"

All stops they were doing something crazy and fun!!
The last stop was Coldstone where we all had ice cream.
Shine got a present that was the zebra hat and tip money for the servers, once she tipped them, they sang Happy Birthday to her and gave her another present.

Inside that present was a hotel brochure, telling them where we were headed next.
So we went to a hotel, where again she got a present from the front desk clerk.
Inside that was her room number and key.

So when we got upstairs the room was completely decorated in zebra/lime green. Balls on the ceiling, balloons on the floor, snacks, candy, girly mags.

She was so surprised...but the big surprise was still to come.
They went swimming, then about 11:00 that night, there was a knock at the door.
Shine opened it and there stood her cousin, Ashley, that she hadn't seen in 6 months because she moved to Nashville from California.
Ashley helped me plan the entire party from 2000 miles away,
then showed up for the party. Love ya, Ash!!

It was so much fun!!!
So then the tears came and the real fun started.
After that, we had a very adventurous night all the way into the morning..
about 5 am in the morning.
This birthday party post will stop here,
due to the nature of the rest of the evening. Hhmm? What happened next you ask?
Well, if you are interested, when I see you in person you can ask and I will tell.
NOTE: To the Mom's of Shine's friends, that entrusted your girls to me....
I promise, there was nothing illegal and no bare skin.
Just lots of fun and more surprises.

Thanks to the drivers, Bethany, Holly, and Bernadette(and me).
Couldn't have done this without you.
Ash, thanks for all your help. You're awesome!!
It was one fun party that all the girls still talk about.
I enjoyed the night with my girl.

Needless to say that page does not have nearly enough pics to tell the story of the
night that lasted all night.
I'm working on a book of the evening to include everything.

So that is my take on the "Celebrations" for this week.
Go to ScrapTiffany to check out the rest of the design team's take on the challenge.
There is some super cute stuff on there.

Sorry for the long post, but I couldn't just leave that layout with just the pics.
Glad you stopped by!!!

Til next Time with T!

Scrap Tiffany-Wk 5-"Baby"

Currently Scrap Tiffany is on Week 6..but due to my Blog construction I could not, would not put anything up until I packed up the Christmas decor from my blog.
My Christmas decor in my house was taken down the 2nd week of Jan. but the blog was having a hard time letting go of all the festivities.
So now that is over and packed away til next year,
I can move foward with some more fun.
Thanks for your patience and thanks to my sis for helping me get everything packed away.
I appreciate your help with getting my blog back together in one piece. ;)

So this layout is from last week's challenge(week 5)..
I will be putting up today's challenge(week 6) later in the week.

Week 5 challenge was baby photos. It could have been of you or another baby. So I chose to do a layout of my youngest daughter.
She is not as young as the photos, she is now 5. Time has flown by.
Here it is...take a peeksy...

Ok, two things...first of all, all that pink does not resemble my daughter any longer. She has stated to me that she "HATES pink". She is my tomboy for sure. I think having an older brother has contributed to that, but you would think the older sister would pull her the other direction. I guess not. She's so funny.
Secondly, I am not the photographer of those beautiful pics that were taken. I only wish I was that good.
They were taken by my good friend Jocelyn. You can find her here...
Not sure where you are located in relation to Jocelyn, but I call her "my" very own personal photographer. I have sworn by her work for years and she is awesome. I have never not liked a picture of me or my family she has taken.
I am just about to see her to do my maternity pics. URGH!!

Why do we prego mom's do those anyway?
Its sure not cause you feel so glowing. ha! That "glowing" is just sweating because you can't breathe walking across the room. Ok, I forgot where I was..hmm?
Oh yea!! Jocelyn...go take a look and see her work you will be quite inspired.

While you're hopping around..go check out Scrap Tiffany's blog...well, this week you will see the week 6 challenge's, but my layout will be posted here this week.
I need to get caught up on some posts...
so make sure to check back when you get a sec.
Thanks for stopping by and leave a comment to tell me you were here.

Again, so sorry for the delay...one of my pet peeves...not updating your blog at least 2x's per week, and now I have done it too.
It's sometimes hard to keep up.
All is good!!

Til next Time with T!!!

Blog Under Construction!!!

Thank goodness I have put my Christmas Blog Decor away FINALLY!!
A BIG thanks to my big sis for helping me!! That is only temporary, soon I will be making my own changes.

Love ya Sis!!
For all you visitors...hang tight!! We'll be done soon!!!

Til next Time with T!!

Scrap Tiffany-Week 4-"Grief"

On to Week 4 Challenge over at Scrap Tiffany Blog.
I love these challenges. They really make you think differently.
Not the norm.
This week the challenge was on Grief.
Your take could be whatever you wanted.
To be honest, doing a layout on grief just wasn't working for me.
I have had my problems in life just like anyone else, however, I try to always find something that I am thankful for.
It usually always directs me back to what's important in life and that ends up normally directing to God and people(my family) and not stuff.
I know it sounds sappy but those were my
thoughts when thinking about this challenge.
I am very thankful for my life, God, and my family.
We really have nothing without those.

With that, I decided to create a card referring to someone else's grief they may be going through.
Here's a look at what I created....

I have always loved to create cards. I love the individuality of each one created. They are simple, quick and usually does not take a lot of product. This card was created using only scraps from my scrap file. I love that box I created for all my little pieces of throw away. No, I do not keep every piece only the ones that are large enough to do something with and if it's too small to see and falls down to nowhere land, it gets trashed.
However, it's the first place I go to when looking for a specific piece of color while I'm creating.
So when I looked thru the files I found peices of color that I hadn't seen in a long time that I really do love.
I was very happy when the colors all worked together.

Hope you like my take on this week's challenge.
Go on!! You know you want to do it!

First, head over to Tiffany's, check out all the other design team takes and then go to your space and create what you think of when the word "Grief" comes to your mind.

Thanks for hanging out with me for a tidbit!!
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