16 posts tagged “birthday”

Grandma, and Grandpa (aka Bopaw) surprised G with a pizza dinner and some awesome tween presents that G was in love with. 

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G insisted on Monkey invites from Target but then also wanted a spa party.  So how does Mom plan a spa party and tie in the monkey theme and not spend a million dollars:  Check it out! 

Once the invites were sent, I was on a mission to pull off this Monkey spa party.  I went to Justice and found Monkey PJ's for G, then stopped by the dollar store and picked up a 3-pack of glitter and 6 feather boa's for G and her buddies.  I borrowed one chocolate fountain from my work, and purchased a bag of pretzel rods, marshmallows, cupcake mix, icing, Nilla wafers in regular and mini size, a bag of flour, and a six cup bag of mozzarella cheese.  I also picked up a bag of frozen dinner rolls and a box of instant butterscotch pudding.  I made a phone call to my very talented teenage neices and told them to bring curling irons, nail polish, and make up. 

The night before I baked funfetti cupcakes and iced with chocolate icing.  I reserved funfetti sprinkles for chocolate dipped pretzel rods.

Once cupcakes were iced, I positioned Nilla Wafers to make a monkey face and then iced each one to resemble a face.  I got out the Kitchen Aid mixer and made an individual pizza crust for each girl and a big one for Hubby, myself, and neices. I prebaked them. 

Guests arrived at 3:30pm and the girls broke out the karaoke machine and began singing away. Then they decided to do presents right away.  When everyone got hungry.  I put out a jar of pizza sauce, pepperoni, and all the mozzarella cheese they could grab.  Since I pre-baked the crust, we only had to stick the pizza's backin the over for about 8 minutes each.  

For an elegant punch, I took Black cherry Kool aid and added a bag of frozen fruit.  The punch bowl added the elegance factor.   

I made up party bags to go by stopping by  http://www.shopjustice.com/ They have an accessory area where everything was 3 for $5. and I also had a 40% off coupon.  Yay! Bonus.  I found monkey shaped soap, and monkey note pads, and cotton candy lip gloss.  I found treat bags at the dollar store.  I splurged and bought each girl a bath fizzy at  www.sweetandsassy.com

My neices fixed everyone's hair, nails, and makeup.  We dusted everyone with glitter and in the morning we had "Monkey Bread".  To make monkey bread you take a bundt pan, spray it with non-stick cooking spray, add frozen dinner rolls, sprinkle with instant butterscotch pudding mix, a 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 stick of melted butter, and 1/2 cup of brown sugar.  Put in oven and forget about it until morning.  The rolls will rise overnight.  Cook at 375 for 30 minutes.  Sticky, Yummy, Monkey bread. 

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G Turned 10 on September 24th.  To celebrate her birthday we went to http://www.daveandbusters.com/  We had an absolute blast.  We all enjoyed the trivia, skee ball, race car driving, air hockey and winning tickets.  G got to take home a stuffed pink poodle and Baby M got a pink kitty cat that she sleeps with every night now. 

When we got ready to leave, we all had our fortune told by the mechanical gypsy.

My husband took all of us to http://www.mollywoos.com/  it was fantastic! 

I started off with a Sake' sampler, the only thing is Baby M thought the one glass was milk and grabbed at it and shattered the whole display.  We then had sushi, lettuce wraps, and I enjoyed a vegetarian eggplant dish, while M had Sesame Chicken, G had Cashew Chicken, and J had Pineapple Chicken.  It was fantastic!

My Mom and Dad took me and the whole family out to breakfast at http://www.firstwatch.com/ .  It was so delicious.  I got the Crepe Eggs which are my favorite.  The avocado on it just hits the spot. 

My birthday happens to be usually the first day of school and Baby M is the last day of school.

For my Birthday, Baby M cooked me a plastic egg in her play kitchen and served it to me in bed. 

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My Grandfather Turned 91 August 21st.  I feel so blessed to have him.  We celebrated by bringing him Noodles and Company http://www.noodles.com/ We got what is called a trio.  For about $7.25 you can enjoy your choice of pasta, soup or salad and a protein.  We got him the Parmesan Crusted Chicken over the Wisconsin Mac N Cheese with the Tomato Bisque Soup, and for dessert we brought him a Rice Crispy Treat that was a huge wedge of deliciousness. 

For Baby M's birthday, we had a Jack's Big Music Show Party.  For those of you who are not familiar with Jack's Big Music Show.  Here is a link with more information.  Jack's Big Music Show.  I think my husband and I enjoy the show as much as M, if not more.  The sad thing is that the show is not on anymore.  The gentlemen at Spiffy are extraordinarily talented people. You may recognize the voice of "Baby Bear" from Sesame Street was created from the same group.  We were posed with some challenges as they do not sell any "Jack's Big Music Show" products so we had to be creative.  I printed out the T-Shirt iron ons and made T-shirts for all of our guests and took the same print out to Kroger's and had them make our cake.  I bought maracas, candy necklaces, and I made tamborines.  My initial idea was to take pie tins and fill them up.  However we were expecting 10 2year olds and the mini pie tins were $4.00 for a set of 4.  I went over to the plant section and bought the plastic drip catch trays for $0.23cents each.  I then went to Fuzzywinklebeans candies and got colored m&m's and whistle pops and filled each one.  I used a single hole punch to put holes in the sides and sealed each one shut by tying colored ribbons to attach top and bottom. 

My husband used our projector to display "Jack's Big Music Show" on our living room wall.  The kids loved it. 

M's friend Abigail turned two and we had an awesome time at her birthday party. 

G celebrated her 9th Birthday by inviting friends to the Movies to see High School Musical 3.