The boys and I took some family pictures this past month, so I could hang them around the house.
One nice weather day, we dressed in white and took some pictures in the backyard. These boys are just so adorable!
We also, took a few pictures in our living room. They are so silly, with their great personalities!
Another beautiful day, so we went to the school to take some pictures with the brick wall. My boys are great little models, so cooperative!
T is turning 6 today. He absolutely loves his Legos, but lately he’s been obsessed with the new Chima Fire & Ice Legos. He is such a fun boy who loves playing outside with his friends. I found these Lego Molds to put candy melts in. Then I could decorate his cake and cupcakes with them.
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I melted red and orange hard candies in the oven and then let them harden before I broke them to look like flames.
He got more Chima Legos too.
Thanks, Aunt DeAnna for my Thor hammer night light.
T’s best friend is his cousin!
The boys and I made homemade gifts this year. We make several snowflake canvases to give to friends and family. To make these canvases, we cut and placed masking tape on the canvas in the shape of a snowflake.
Then we used different shades of blue paint to cover the entire canvas.
After the paint dried, we gently pulled off the tape to reveal our snowflakes.
J loves Minecraft so he decided on a Minecraft party this year. He is 10 years old and he loves Legos, science, and video games like any other 10 year old boys.
He wanted his cake to look like the cake on the game so I tried my best.
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I tried to make a Nether Portal, Spider, and Creeper Face for decorations.
I copied pictures of the food items from the game and placed them with the food set out on the food table.
He got more Legos… he was so excited!
I made games this year since it was nice outside for the kids.
Creeper Toss
Minecraft Chess
Cubes to play with.
Jewel Mining
I made a TNT pinyata for J.
Brewing Stand
This was such a fun party for the kids!
Happy Birthday to my double digits boy… I love you!
My little Titus is now 5. He loves math, superheros, and Legos. We took the boys to see the new Avengers movie and now it’s a favorite around the house. We had fun planning this Avenger’s party and coming up with all the fun games. We found this awesome Avengers balloon at our local party store and it floated in our house for over 3 months.
I made his name by cutting up and Avengers comic book and using modge podge to stick it to wooden letters.
I made tissue paper pom-poms to look like comic book “POW” bursts and hung them around the house.
I made a photo booth with a black table cloth hanging in the back ground and put some more comic book “POW” bursts on it. I covered boxes with black paper and cut out yellow rectangles as windows for the buildings in the foreground of the photo booth. I had wire rack set up with the boys superheros dress-ups for the kids to use in their pictures.
I made the cake in the shape of a five this year. I covered it with my buttercream and then used fondant to create all the special pieces on top.
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I had fun making different special foods too.
I thought this was a fun idea for the soda because I was raised up north where we grew up calling it “pop”. Every time I visit my dad and he calls it “pop” it sounds funny to me because I never hear that any more.
I try to teach my boys to say “Thank You” and give a hug after each gift that they open.
Josiah gave Titus the Hulk Smash gloves and mask that he’s been asking for.
Gifts sent in the mail from Grandpa Davis…
I set up the games so there were 3 Avengers on each table.
We used the Hulk gloves to smash the buildings that I made out of boxes.
I used a funnel to fill balloons with flour and then cut circles in another balloon to put around the flour balloon ball.
I made a hammer with a foam rectangle covered in duct tape and stuck a wooden dowel rod in it. I glue it all together and put a brown ribbon and shoelace on the handle.
I found red plastic plates for the kids to decorate and make a frisbee shield.
I used the boys bows and hung some balloons for them to shoot the bows at.
I spray painted some dollar store squirt guns black and let them shoot them at the hanging balloons. It was a hot day so these ended up being a favorite… the kids squirted eachother all day.
Happy Birthday my big 5 years old! I love you!
My Thanksgiving tradition is to make Gingerbread houses; so I decided to build them with my nieces and nephews this year. It was so much fun, now there are 11 cousins and J is the oldest!
We used Graham Crackers and Waffle Cones for our Gingerbread Houses and Christmas Trees this year.
I used a pear for the Turkey’s body and then cut up fruit to place around the pear for the Turkey’s feathers. These cousins just LOVE fruit.
I read “The Night Before Thanksgiving” to the cousins before bed… It is a great book with cousins and other extended family members. These cousins just love reading too.
My sweet, wonderful boy is growing up so fast. He loves science, Legos, and cousins. J is 9 years old this year and his best friend and cousin is 8. Their birthday’s are just 3 weeks apart and they both love Legos so they had a joint party this year. J’s aunt and I had fun planning another party together.
All the kids colored Lego minifig coloring sheets and we hung them up to make a banner.
J made a Lego container to hold the forks. We covered the juice boxes with construction paper and added dots to look like Legos.
We wrapped some of the gifts to look like Legos too.
J got a few new Lego sets and the Lego Movie.
J gave his cousin a watch for his birthday.
The boys had fun putting their Legos together with Papa.
We played Lego games too.
J’s aunt made cookies to look like Legos and Minifig marshmallow pops.
To start the Lego cake I found a Lego font in a Google search. Then I printed out the boys name and colored it to look like the Lego logo.
Then I used my homemade marshmallow fondant to create edible names that look like the Lego logo.
Next I used candy melts to create the candy Lego bricks and minifigs with my silicone Lego molds.
Then I made the cake with colored white cake mix in my checkered cake pans.
Next I made my butter cream frosting green and frosted the cake. I added the candy bricks around the boarder of the cake.
Then placed the green fondant on the top portion of the cake and added the name Lego logos on top.
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Then I placed a thin piece of yellow fondant around the cake above the bricks and set the minifigs on it.
Then I placed the #8 and #9 candles that I had.
Happy Birthday, my growing boy!!!
He wrote about his Lego party the next day in writing class…
My Mother-in-law loves to play the Hay Day app so we threw her a surprise party. Here is the link to the Android Hay Day App and here is the link to the Apple Hay Day app. The truth is almost every adult in this family plays Hay Day… My in-laws, 3 of their sons, and 2 of their son’s wives.
I made tissue paper pom-pom farm animals and a birthday banner for decorations.
We grilled for dinner. I attempted to make deviled eggs that looked like chicks hatching. I also made carrots out of green silverware and orange napkins.
I printed out the images from the Hay Day wiki for the signs that are on the table.
Juice Press: apple juice, lemonade
BBQ Grill: hamburgers, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, and pork steaks, cornbread
Salad Bar: lettuce, olives, cheese, bacon bits, carrots, tomatoes
She got a favorite book as a gift and read it to the grandkids.
Then we had dessert. I had cow pies (chocolate covered nuts), haystacks, and blackberry muffins.
Pie Oven: mini pie crust with pudding to put in them, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries
Candy Machine: caramel apples, jellybeans, chocolate bars
Ice Cream Maker: vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream cones with blackberry jam as a topping
Last I made her favorite yellow cake with chocolate frosting to look like a pig pen. I made the pigs with pink marshmallow fondant. I put KitKats all around the cake and made little flowers and grass around the outside with colored butter cream frosting. I made the ladder with tootsie rolls.
T turned 4 this year! He loves the minions on Despicable Me so we chose that as his birthday theme this year. I layered his cake with blueberry and yellow cakes then frosted it with butter cream before I added the fondant.
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We also had banana splits since the Minions seem to love bananas.
I made these marshmallow minions with yellow candy melts.
I cut up banana pieces and let the kids dip them in the chocolate fountain then dip them in a topping.
I used yellow cups, electrical tape, and googly eyes for these cute Minion cups.
We also had a pinyata.
For lunch we had stuffed crust pizza… “Oooo Stuffed Crust” (that’s one of the boys favorite lines in the movie.)We also had a pinyata.
I also found these Minion snacks.
I made Minions out of plastic Easter eggs and filled them with banana Runts.
Then I made these cute balloons too.
Time for presents! I used Minion Duct Tape around the bottom of a plastic blue table cloth for the tables.
My sister-in-law, Cloninger Photography, did a great job with his birthday pictures again this year.
The boys and I made a yummy dessert and fun Father’s Day cards for their Daddy!
First the boys traced and cut out 2 hand prints. Next we wrote, “I love you…” on the hands.
Next we cut a strip of paper and wrote “This Much” on it. Then we folded it back and forth over and over.
Finally we glue the strip in between the two hand prints.
First fold two sides of a piece of paper in to meet in the middle.
Fold down the corners of the top to look like triangles.
Next we cut out a tie shape and glued it to one side of the folded front. Then we glued 3 buttons to the other side of the folded front.
On the inside at the top we wrote, “DAD” and put a Superman emblem in the middle.
First press down some cookie dough into a baking pan.
Then add Oreo’s to cover the cookie dough.
Last we add the brownie batter to the top of the Oreo’s.
Bake and enjoy with ice cream!
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×9 baking pan with wax paper or foil and spray with cooking spray. (You can opt for a 13×9 pan if you want thinner bars.)
2. Make your cookie dough whichever way you like and spread in the bottom of the pan. If you are making a full batch of homemade Toll House cookie dough, you will only need half the batch!
3. Cover your cookie dough with Oreo cookies.
4. Whip up your brownie mix and pour evenly over the Oreo cookies.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
6. Cool for 5 minutes and then enjoy! Add some ice cream to completely put this indulgence over the top!
