My sister's baby shower

So when I heard my sister is pregnant I had the immediate thought of "I GOTTA THROW HER A BABY SHOWER!"  In all reality, I had this thought way before she actually became pregnant and just kept wondering when she was ready to have her 2nd child 'cause I knew she didn't want just one.  Well that time came and so I was on my baby shower mission.  My sister's friends and mom, my step-mom, wanted to give her one too so we actually all went in together for throwing her a shower.  It started out as just the normal blue stuff for a baby boy, since that's what she's having.  We went and got the decor, plain blue & white, and were half way through the planning.  Well then I came across these table clothes that were SOOO much better than just plain blue.  They were blue, brown, and green.  I thought it was so much cuter so I asked if we could change it.  My sister ended up liking those colors better so I got the ok to change it.  I even found this cute ribbon with blue and green before that so that worked out perfectly that I got it before.  I was thinking about nursery rhymes and such and remembered the FROGS & SNAILS & PUPPY DOG TAILS- THAT'S WHAT LITTLE BOYS ARE MADE OF one and so that was so perfect to incorporate into the shower.  I then went and got blue, brown, and green paper and made a framed sign with that saying.  I then found the letter B and knew I could do something with it to incorporate his name.  I think the shower turned out to be a good one and Dacia is one lucky girl to have family and friends that couldn't resist participating in it. 

I'm pretty bumbed that I ended up not taking any pictures of the decor and everything 'cause that is what I usually do the best!!!  I was just too busy trying to make sure it turn out to be perfect.  BUMMER!!!  Oh well now but here's some shots that I did take at the shower...

Here are the decorations I made.  Because I changed the theme of the shower I just knew

I could find cute things for it.  Luckily I found some frogs, snails, and puppy dog tails at Michaels.  That was just a perfect find.  I painted the board brown and glued them on it for a cute little decor when you walk into the room.  I then found a perfect size B letter and some cute, and cheap, ribbon to go on it.  I painted the B brown as well and then glued the ribbon on it with Mod Podge.

Of course there's always the guessing game of how many jelly beans there are.

There were 222 jelly beans of each color: blue, brown, and green, in the blue bottle.

(This isn't how it was set up at the shower)

Here's the set up at the shower of the decor I made,

minus the jelly bean baby bottle and the new chalk board

lined with the same ribbon on the B, added so people

could walk in and learn the name of my nephew to be's name

BRADEN MADDOX KARDOES

(his name was written with blue chalk but it's hard to see

because of the glare from the flash)

The baby shower in my neighborhood party room...

 

Gotta LOVE Target!  I went walking through Target a few day before the shower and stumbled upon these popcorn holders in the dollar spot.  Since they were only one dollar each I got a few and just knew they could be used some how at the shower for cute decorations and snacks.  I thought I could just make some cute picture and saying and glue it to the cup.  I did just that then filled 'em up with popcorn.

I think they turned our just fine but could've turned out a little cutter.

Here's the cake I made, once again.  I am not pleased with my cake AT ALL!!!  This is the third time I've made it for the third baby shower I've done.  For some reason it turned out to be the worst out of the other ones.  I think the first one was the "perfect" one.  I think it turned out like this because of the lack of time and maybe old fondant but really lack of time probably.  I planned to finish it all the night before the shower but it just didn't turn out like that 'cause I was getting tired from finishing up other things and figured I could do the fondant in the morning before the shower started.  I'm either thinking the fondant I used was maybe too old to use so that's why it cracked SOO easily or I was just trying to work with it too fast.

Either way a cake is a cake and this is what it officially turned out to look like...

Looks shouldn't be everything because everyone LOVED the taste of it- COOKIES 'N' CREAM

Cute BIG SISTER RYLEE was helping mommy with her presents.  Dacia's 2 best friends

were the ones who wrote everything down for the thank you cards and gave her the presents and took

the trash away- along with Rylee helping with presents. 

And then there was me: THE PHOTOGRAPHER...

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All in all her shower turned out to be just great and she got lots of amazing things for her up and coming

 first baby boy!!!  I know Rylee's gonna be the BEST big sister!!!

I'm now patiently waiting for my nephew

BRADEN MADDOX KARDOES
to get here already.  I do have a few weeks of waiting
though 'cause he isn't due to be here until March 16th.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO MY GIRL!!!

I went over to bring my niece Rylee her Valentine, watermelon sour patch kids, and learned that she's home sick with no school for the day. That didn't mean that she wouldn't get her Valentine from me. Maybe a little candy can make her feel better right?! HEHE!!!

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Bar stools...

So I've had my bar up for quite awhile down in my basement and kept thinking it needs to look a little more bar like, maybe with chairs.  I started off and got the HAPPY HOUR sign off of ART.com/ and so that was my first step to dress up my bar.  I then was having this thought of what kind of chairs/stools I wanted.  I was looking around at all the chairs out there and of course they were all quite pricey.  Well then that gave me the idea to look on good 'ole CRAIGSLIST for some decent priced chairs.  I luckily came across 2 black stools and HAD TO GET 'EM!!!  The bonus was that they weren't expensive what so ever.  Maybe $20 for both if I remember right.  After awhile I got sick of walking past some plain boring black stools so I was thinking of what I could do to them to incorporate my "SPORTS BAR" theme with my Broncos and Rockies stuff that is already up on the walls.  I went around to the fabric stores to find some fabric of the teams to put on them and that was not successful and so of course I couldn't think of a better place than EBAY to find some fabric of the teams.  Got rich with those findings!!!  Got the fabric and so my "SPORTS BAR" endevour began... 

Beginning of my bar once I got the sign...

 

The stools were bought as black stools but they both needed some touch ups on the paint. 

I went and got some black spray paint and doctored 'em up to be like this...

Went and got some Matte MOD PODGE and put it on for the fabric to be put on the stools...

The beginning of the Rockies stool...

Beginning of the Broncos stool...

I decided to put more MOD PODGE on but the glossy kind this time...

The Broncos finishing touch up with glossy MOD PODGE...

My finished "SPORTS BAR" in my basement. 

Newly framed HAPPY HOUR sign along with

the newly decorated stools I  made...

Here's a closer look at the Broncos and Rockies stools...

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY MOMMY...

MY friend asked me to watch her kids as she went to a single moms event through our church. I couldn't say no 'cause she has the sweetest little boys that I always have fun with. Valentine's Day is right around the corner so of course I had the thought that the boys should make their mom a cute little Valentine. I went searching through the house for any sort of crafty stuff they had and found some giggily eyes. I came across this owl Valentine idea and used it with them. It's an owl on each with two different sayings 'cause I felt they couldn't have the same saying but just decorate it differently. I drew the owl and wrote the sayings that I came up with, although I'm sure they're said out there somewhere, and the boys colored their own then we signed it with their names together.
The older brother's, Brendan- 3, Valentine said "OWL always love you! Love, Brendan".
And the little brother's, Justin- 1, Valentine said "OWL love you forever! Love, Justin".
I think their mom's heart is gonna melt when she comes home and sees them because they turned out to be so cute!

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BIG AIR 2011

Denver was chosen to host the international ski and snowboard BIG AIR competition in downtown Denver. It was held in Civic Center park. The park is between the capital and Civic Center building litterally in downtown Denver. I heard about it coming to town and was like "HMM, I think I want to go". I drove passed where it was gonna be on may way some where a few weeks before it started while they were setting up for it and just knew there was no reason for me not to go. So the first night of it, on a tuesday, was skiing. I had no plans that night so ended up going to downtown Denver by myself to watch them do the ski jumps. I definately did not feel the need to fork out big bucks for a ticket so I watched it on the side where it was free. The jumps the skiiers did were amazing and I was just like "holy cow, there's NOO way I would ever try that!" During the show there was a concert and that was way fun too. The band for the first night was Switchfoot. When I heard the band was gonna be there I got SOOO excited 'cause I do quite love that band and I got myself a free concert. There were SOOO many people there and I went by myself and didn't feel like a dork or anything 'cause I figured I wouldn't run into anyone I knew since there were so many people there and I didn't see anyone I knew. I just didn't care that I was by myself because I had fun either way!!!

The next night were the snowboarders doing their jumps. This night was much more fun 'cause I had a better view of the ramp they went down. I heard that a friend had extra tickets for a better view so I definately hit him up on that one so I could go again and see the snowboarders since I saw the skiiers the previous night. It was another night of jaw dropping thoughts of "I couldn't do that." The jumps they all did were insane. There was another concert for the night of another band I LOVE- One Rebublic. I went and met my friend there and enjoyed it with him and his girlfriend, for a little bit. Well I suppose they didn't enjoy it as much as I did and left early into it. I was enjoying it far too much to leave and figured I'd be fine since I was there by myself the night before. I had another great night of watching winter sports get some air and it was another insane night of AHH. I will totally go see it all again if it comes back to Denver in the future!!!

Mid-air snowboarding shot...

This is a WOW jump with the boarder up so high...

Here's the side view I had of the ramp the skiiers and boarders "flew" down for the first night!!!

There had to be some intermission in between with some people out with their skiis to groom up the hill since it got dug into with the falls and landings with the boards and skiis.

Snowboarder with AMAZING view and jump...

Skiier's jump from the side view I had of the 1st night with skiiers...

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Annual Ornament & Cookie Exchange

Yeah this is a late posting since my Christmas exchange happened on December, 18th...

It is that time of year again for my annual hosting of the ornament & cookie exchange.  It's always super fun to get into the spirit of the holidays and have friends come over to exchange cookies and ornaments with each other.

My kitchen with everyhing to get ready for the party: cookie making instruments every where, cookies every where, and even a CANDY BAR to mix goodie bags to take home with you!!!

Here are the little Nutter Butter snowmen I made for the exchange. 

The "mom" and "dad" ones look different 'cause they're actually melted

Nutter Butter's by accident but I decided to use them anyways instead of waste 'em.

I even put some Bronco snowmen in there with the blue & orange buttons. 

Had to keep some NFL spirit in there with my Broncos!!!

The first Oreo popsicle cookies I've made.  I've had them before and boy are they DELICIOUS!!!

I decided to make them into some snow flake Oreo popsicle cookies.

All the cookies that everyone got to choose from...

Here are ALL the left overs from the cookies that were left behind. 

Oh what to do with them all...

I decided I didn't want any of the left overs so I put them all together

in bags and drove down to downtown Denver and gave

the bags away to many of the homeless people I saw for a

Merry Christmas treat.

Snowed in!!!

All I can say is that I was SO excited when we got this much snow. My back porch was completely covered in it. It's a good thing I didn't need anything back there so I didn't have to walk through the mound of it but good enough to just know it's there. I LOVE me some Colorado winters when we get dumped with it. With Colorado's weather, it isn't winter to me unless there's snow. Yeah it could be weird but I do LOVE LOVE LOVE snow!!!

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