Jessi Rose

Blue’s Clues Party -2

J totally loves Blue’s Clues right now so I decided to give him a Blue’s Clues party for his second birthday. I decorated with lots of blue balloons and crepe paper. I love going crazy with the decorations while he is still so little because when he comes in the room for the first time his face lights up and he knows something special is happening. I had his party right after his nap so before nap the living room looks normal and when he wakes up… SURPRISE!!!

For his cake I just made a single layer round chocolate cake with some chocolate cupcakes. I covered them with my homemade blue buttercream and placed them on the table in the shape of Blue’s paw print. I served chocolate milk with it.

Buttercream Icing

Ingredients:

1 cup butter
1 cup Crisco
4 cups powdered sugar (2 lbs)
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 tablespoon milk (if thick)

Directions:

Cream together the butter and Crisco with a mixer.
Slowly add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time.
Add the vanilla, if it seems too thick you can add a bit of milk.

I found some blue pinwheels and make a little Blue’s Clues coloring book for the kids too.

I printed out labels for the bubbles, and stuck them to the side of the bottles.

We got J a goldfish for his birthday since he still loves animals, and I am not the biggest pet lover.

J’s favorite song is The Hokey Pokey so we danced to is a couple of times. He loved it!

I put out his baby book again this year for our family to look though.

Be sure to check out my Farm Birthday Party post!

Toddler Fall Portraits

I love fall in the Midwest with all of the colored leaves. J is loving the weather too, since he likes playing outside so much! I followed him around trying to get some cute photos as he explored.

We took some fall pictures, he was much more cooperative than I thought he would be. He like’s trying to play with the trees, rocks, and leaves. He even posed by the tree with his hand on it for me, and sitting in front of it.

22 months old now.

Baby Christmas Portraits

I like taking pictures of Baby J (13 months old), and I love Christmas too. J was such a good baby, he didn’t touch the tree when we taught him not to; but he did love playing with the ornaments when we gave him one.

He was just a month old for his first Christmas, so this year so much more fun with him.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… I love preparing for Christmas, and I usually start my planning a few months before. I’ll use some of these photos in my Christmas cards and defiantly include them in my scrapbooks.

Farm Birthday Party -1

J turned one year old today. We celebrated with a small party with family, just how we like it. J loves animals, especially farm animals. His grandma reads him his favorite book, Noisy Farm, almost everyday. His first animals sound was, “moo”, I was so excited when I found this cow balloon. I also found some cow spotted latex balloons and some “Happy 1st Birthday” balloons and decorated the around the room with crepe paper.

I decorated with crepe paper around his high chair too and put a table cloth under it since we moved it to the living room.

For his cake I made an 11×13 sheet cake and put a farm scene on it. I used some farm toys from a game he had. For the hay I just dyed some coconut yellow.