This weekend was packed with fun celebrations of 2 our most special friends. It truly was such a reminder of how blessed we are to have these people in our lives here and how God's plan is so perfect. When we moved to Houston one of my biggest fears was making friends and look what God did! He made "family" for us so far from home.
On Saturday, we were honored to be part of the 1 year celebration of sweet little Ben Woolley. Now you may remember from my blog posts HERE, that Ben is the son of my best friend Jen Woolley who we prayed for tirelessly over the few last years. And now, one year later, we are celebrating his birthday! How fun to be born on St. Patrick's Day?
The boys made hats at their gymnastics camp on Friday. They were so proud of them when we showed up to pick them up and they actually asked to wear them to the party on Saturday! Of course, mom had to steal those sweet little "Irish" kisses too!
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| Their hats they made at camp |
The party was great. The boys were wild and had so much fun. The best part was they are finally old enough to "go play". I did not have to bounce in the bounce house! Whoo hoo! What big boys they are. Jen had so many special touches that I love. I have to tell you though that I was in the living room and I was watching the DVD slideshow she made that was playing on the big screen TV and I was just overwhelmed and tears began just flowing down my face. What God can do in any situation is just so powerful. What Jen has walked through and the goodness he has brought to their lives through it. Oh yeah, couldn't quit crying. Such a sappy mom I am! The theme of the party was "One year old in a Flash" Jen is the amazing photographer that takes the boys yearly (ok at first, monthly) photos of the boys. So it is only fitting that she has tons of amazing photos of sweet Ben!
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| Favors were little cookies shaped like cameras |
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| Everyone brought a note for Ben to open on his 18th birthday |
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| How cute are those apples! |
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| Can we go jump! |
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| Look at the garage transformed |
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| My favorite touch - look at the banner made from her photos taken every month! |
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| Month 1 to.. |
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| Month 12! |
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| The boys with Ben (and his daddy) |
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| Ben's beautiful mom Jen |
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Photo booth! Do you love it? It had tons of props
and remote control for pictures |
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| Love love this! Can't wait to the Riley silly pics |
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| Time for cupcakes! |
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| Beautiful Woolley Family |
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| Riley boys in some cupcake action |
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| Dad talked him into touching his nose.. it was blue! |
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| Mommy wash my hands! |
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| Perfect craft.. photo frames! |
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| Beckett and Eli's designs |
After Jen's party we headed home so that I could load up and head over to our friends The Fryar's for more party planning action. Our best friend Curtis (of the Galloway Miracles ) turned 40 last week and we plotted and planned a surprise party for him. Now Curtis and his family are HUGE Louisiana fans. Saints, Mardi Gras, Crawfish all of their top favorites. In fact Curtis just took a job in New Orleans (trying not to think about that) so we planned a great afternoon crawfish boil. McCalle and I were in charge of the "inside " food and the boys handed the bugs. We had a variety of snacks and a death by chocolate table!
Several of our touches came from Pinterest, but some we thought of ourselves.
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| The banner I made, love using tulle with it this time |
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| A bucket of beads greeted our guest |
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| A bottle of "Bin 40" for all the guest to sign for Curtis to take home |
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| Our facts about how old Curtis is! |
I scored these little pots 3 for $1 at Dollar Tree and filled them with crushed up oreos topped with a worm. I printed up cute little tags that said. 40 - Officially older than dirt! What cute inexpensive favors they turned out to be.
We downloaded lots of old pictures onto my digital frame. Do you love the buckets on each side! Ha!
For the boys 1st birthday I did a tree with pictures hanging so we just used that same idea for the centerpiece of our "death by chocolate" table. It turned out great. I got the idea for marshmellow pops Our Best Bites.. they are like fake cake pops! I had the bucket from another party, so with a little craft paper, cricut action, and backet filler from Dollar Tree we were ready to roll on those cute inexpensive treats. McCalle made the CUTEST graveyard cake. And... homemade oreo cookies! A tray of chocolate dipped rice krispy pops from Twig and Thistle finished off a great table!
Justin and Mike had way too much fun cooking up the bugs! And the kids found them fascinating. Mine called them crabs!
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| Look at this table.. with holes for the shells made from plywood and Justin's saw |
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