Bobcat for Scraptastic Club

What a fun sketch from Jana Eubank via  Sketchy Thursday over at Scraptastic Club

I love a good multi-photo sketch!

For this page I turned the sketch to its side. I also adore this American Crafts Campy Trails line, with three boys I'm always hoping to find a line that is friendly for boy pages, outdoor themes, and boy scout pages... since I do a LOT of those!

These photos are of the Little Guy earning his Bobcat rank as a Tiger Cub. He was the first boy in his den to finish it and he was so pleased!

Senior Prom!

I did a bunch of scrapping yesterday and I'm really pleased with what I got done. I will put some of those up soon... but in the meantime, I've got another share for you...

Oldest's Senior Prom!

This photo was taken in a park near our home. TGF is wearing some serious heels to be so tall... and they're sinking into the sand where she's standing.

And here's one with a bunch of their buddies

Aren't they adorable?

I sent out his graduation announcments this week... So bittersweet. So glad they're out, so proud of him, cannot believe my boy has less than a month of high school left!

In a hole in a ground there lived a Hobbit...

This weekend we celebrated the Little Guy's 8th birthday. He won't technically BE eight until Friday but schedule-wise, this was what worked!

The Little Guy wanted a Hobbit Party. And he very much wanted a Hobbit House. So, that's what we focused on for his party.

Invitations were sent.... They read:

You are invited to a party of special magnificence.

********
We shall await your respected person at

[The Little Guy]'’s Hobbit Hole

[Address],

on Sunday, April the Twenty First at 3 p.m. sharp.

Trusting that you will be punctual.
  'we have the honour to remain
    yours deeply
      '[The Little Guy] & co.'

kindly respond to....

Using the fantastic Bilbo Hand Font. 

We turned our front door into a Hobbit Door!

Smaug's hoard of gold spread out under the punch bowl

And the cake was Bilbo Baggin's Hobbit Hole (with a blue door instead of green, because I had leftover blue fondant from the TARDIS cake.) and the  I was so pleased with it!

(and yes, that Hobbit figure is actually Merry... the kids hunted out LOTR toys for decor, he was the closest we had)

There were pennants and banners and balloons...

The kids went home with "Gollum's Goodies" and "One Ring -Pops" (Gollum's Goodies = Swedish Fish and Gummy Worms, labelled with Gollum's Fish riddle, and One Ring Pops were labelled with the inscription portion of the Ring Poem)

The Little Guy amassed a collection of new Legos (Hobbit legos, LOTR legos, Iron Man Legos, City Legos)

It was indeed a party of special magnificence!

I'm still here!!! I swear! Moustache Bash...

Oh my gosh... I did not realize it had been SIX WEEKS since I last posted!

It's been busy here. Wrestling ended for oldest and started all over for my younger boys. Spring break was fairly quiet, we didn't go anywhere or do anything exciting but we did some household projects that too up some of our time.

Today, we're going to take a peek at Muppet Boy's 12th Birthday party. It was a busy day for the Muppet Boy, in the morning he became a member of our church and was baptized...

We got home from church and dove into party preparations...Muppet Boy wanted a birthday party, but shot down my first several suggestions for birthday ideas. Finally we settled on a Moustache Bash! So we started with invitations...

Me and my trusty Silhouette SD whipped out all sorts of decorations. We had moustache straws.

 We had moustache balloons and moustache garland

 

There was moustache confetti (and dark chocolate moustache topped cupcakes)

 There were moustaches to wear.

And a moustache Birthday Banner

 

And one VERY HAPPY Muppet Boy!

 What a fun birthday. 

This was followed shortly by DH's birthday. He joked endlessly about wanting me to make him a TARDIS cake. This was thrown together on the quick but it came out DELICIOUS.

 And we aren't DONE ... one more birthday to go this month!