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!

Lego Mania!

This weekend was dedicated almost entirely to the Little Guy's Lego Mania!

His birthday gift was tickets to LegoKidfest in Denver, and his birthday party was Lego themed!
 Who can resist life-sized Lightning McQueen made entirely of Legos?

We attended a Lego Class with Lego Master Builder Steve

My little Ninjago-crazy boy was in love with Giant Kai!

 And of course we played with all kinds of legos - competing in challenges, playing games, and building our hearts out! And just basking in the lego-glory.

If you have a Lego-lover or three or more in your household, I've got to say that if LegoKidFest is coming to your area, make an effort to go! Such fun!

Following our Lego KidsFest craziness we returned home for our own LegoMania Birthday party!

We had cupcakes with Chocolate minifigs (I made them.) And favors, and, of course, a mountain of legos to build away!

What a FANTASTIC weekend!

Weekend Away

This weekend was my husband's birthday. His mom came into town to spell us, so we could head off for a couple of nights away while she played with the kiddos (they ate ice cream for lunch TWICE). We had a lovely time!

We sat in the hot tub and watched the sunset, as a herd of deer streamed by. We went walking along a mountain stream, drove into town for lunch, grilled up Buffalo burgers and just spent time together relaxing, which was heavenly.

Checking In...

I've been missing in action for a bit... my laptop has been toying with me. I think it is angry.

Additionally, it's been Spring Break and birthday parties and ... life. And the blog has been low priority.

So here's a peek at some of what we've been up to :)

Pumpkin Bread.

Birthdays.

Easter goodies -- thank you, Nana!

A view from our crazy adventure.

Playing at the park -- check those shorts!

A week later we went through the craziest snow storm I've ever seen in Colorado!

This weekend I participated in a fabulous online crop at Serendipity and I'll be posting some pages for my scrappy pals soon.... I did 27 projects in the course of the weekend - insanity!