First ripe tomato!

The topsy turvey has been doing really REALLY well. We even have our first fully ripe tomato. This tomato plant is a heirloom organic beefsteak. I have found the topsy turvey has to be watered every day and alot. So it requires extra tomato food because it most of the food drains out the bottom. But it is doing well and I have a full crop of little green tomatos sprouting up. You can't see them very well in the photo below but they are definately there.

Mustache Bash 70th Birthday

We threw a Mustashe bash for my dad's 70th birthday . I created in publisher and had it printed by vistaprint. I decided on the mustach theme because my dad has had his stash my whole life. Its so a part of him that no one even notices its there. To prove my point one of my dads friends asked me at his party "so why did you choose the mustach theme?" When I told her why she said "what mustache?" and noticed it for the first time.
I punched out the red and white confetti for the centerpeices from various circle punches I have laying around the house. Brandon modified the photos and added mustaches onto my dads 'kid' photos. I got vases from the dollar store and the green leaves came from a plant I had in my backyard. I went to purchase red flowers at the florest and they wanted two dollars a stem! I about fainted. I went to Wal-mart to print out the photos and found these red daisys for two dollars. Each plant had at least three flowers a piece. So now I have some cute flowers to plant in my backyard! To accent the tables I wanted to buy a fabric pennant banner but I couldn't afford what I wanted. So I bought some clearence fabric at joanns and sewed together a pennant banner that was black and white with red accents that said "Happy 70th Bruce" in the same text as the invite.
The mustaches on the plates, cups, and serve bowls I cut out using a die cut that I found online. I purchased chalkboard contact paper so they went on just like stickers and I was able to write what each item was in the serving bowls and the guests could write their names on their cups.
The most challenging part for me was the food. I don't know how to cook for more than 20 to 30 people and we had almost 70. So we rented a taco cart locally and I just made the orderves. Flautas, corn cakes, & empinatas and of course chips, salsa & guacamole (above). We had a seperate beverage station with Tea, Lemonaide & Punch. We also offered water and sodas under the table in ice chests. For desert we had a cake for my dad to blow out and a cupcake tower. The cupcake pix I made from paper straws and again the die cut but with black paper.
My amazing husband made our photo booth. We were originally going to create the photo booth for our 10 year annivarsary party (a year away still) but thought this was the perfect excuse to put it together and enjoy it sooner! We had a booth we had made for a previous party laying around so we painted that black and added a PVC frame and purchased some black curtians. I made a little prop station to go with it from an overnight case that was handed down throught the family. I tought it added some vintage flair. (I forgot the table to put it on so it ended up on the ground!). In it we had stick mustaches and stick chalkboard signs, coke bottle glasses, feather boa's and some miscilaneous crazy sunglasses and animial faces. Here are some photos from the booth

4th of July weekend

Up until this year we have spent our 4th of July weekends entertaining others at our home. I enjoy that but this year I felt a bit burnt out so this year we spent the weekend in Santa Babara. It was so relaxing to get away with just our family and we all really enjoyed ourselves. We spent most of our time at the beach (as you can see below). It was L's first time at the ocean. He was hesitant at first but as soon as his feet hit the water he couldn't get enough. This weekend was so relaxing I can't wait till our next 'weekend' getaway!

Planter 2 the begining

Planter two is finally up! My only issue now is I don't have enough to plant in it. I had a whole box of strawberry seeds & Bell Peppers that didn't come up. So I've planted one pumpkin a tomato and one cantaloupe. I've re-started the strawberries in the hopes that they will eventually arrive. Only time will tell at this point.

Planter 1 planted

It's been awhile since the last post. We have been recovering from our 4th of July weekend getaway. We finally were able to get our seedlings planted in planter one. Its just amazing to watch the little guys grow. Using the square foot garden guide we planted watermelon, Pot Marigold, tomato, Pumpkins, leaf lettuce, butter lettuce, bell pepper, peas, cantaloupe, onions, carrots, and garlic. Below is a layout of planter 1. We used leftover Popsicle sticks to label the plants.

Afternoon in the sprinklers

Today was L's first experience running in the sprinklers or 'sprinkler' in this case. Both of the boys has so much fun it totally felt like one of those afternoons you have as a kid that last forever. It was just simply awesome!

Where are the wild things?

X is a very active and adventerious three year old child. Lately he has been on this kick with the book Where the Wild Things Are. He told me last night that he wanted to go to the wood to find the wild things. I thought it was so cute he has to most wild imagination. I just couldn't pass up reliving that magical feeling of imagary things. So I told him I would take him to the woods and we would search for the "wild things". I took him a local state park that has smaller trails you can take kids on. We didn't find any "wild things" but we did see alot of bunnies, squirrls, and lizards. He had a great time and suprisingly he wan't dissappointed that we didn't see any wild things. He told me "They must be sleeping, maybe they come out at night. But I sleep at night so I can't look for them then."

are the wild things here?

Or maybe here?

I thing I saw something!

They aren't in there!

Are the up here? I don't see them!

A good day together!