The 18 Month Project

I have lots of projects ... to the chagrin of my sweet husband.  But he carries on, the trooper. :)

Kevin had a chair that was out in the back porch and it was there for a long time getting rained on and sunned on.  It was just turning into junk.  Which is about the time I decide to take on a project.

This is what it looked like before.

Nothing special....  I took it apart and was very careful about taking pictures of where things went.  And then it was time to decide what color ... and I got stuck. I also saw how much upholstery fabric cost and that's when the chair went on the back burner.  BUT it survived the move to east Mesa and the first six months of  pregnancy and irrational hormonal decision making, and I turned it into this!

My little piano room is coming along nicely, I think.

Ben likes it too.

Natalie Performs!!

This is our favorite song right now.  Natalie knows all the words and Ben knows pretty much all the hand motions.  I will get video of Ben doing those soon.  For now just enjoy this!

Natalie's 3rd Birthday

That's right!  My baby just turned THREE!!!  I can't believe it.  And she is turning into such an interesting lovely young girl.  I can't wait to see what this next year will bring for her.  On the Saturday before her birthday we had our first friend party.  We had about 10 children ages 3-4 at our house just playing and eating and having a blast!

The theme .... NEMO!

Here are the decorations before the party guests arrived.

Food table

These were Jelly Fish!  Kevin made most of them.  Didn't he do a good job?

Yes this is the shark from Ben's party.....  but now it is Bruce the shark!  

Good recycling don't you think?

Party Favors

And the guests arrive!

Our first game was Bobbing for Nemo!

I made little fish out of sponges and the kids tried to fish them out.  

  

  

Then we went bowling.  The pins had print outs of Nemo characters on them.

     

  

  

  

   

Funny thing ... I kept setting up the pins backwards.  Pregnant brain!

Hi Ben!

  

Then we played eat the worm off the string.  This was really fun.  The kids couldn't use their hands and then had to try to eat a gummy worm off a string.  Just like the dough nut on the string game.

  

    

  

  

Then it was present time!  Natalie made out good!

  

  

  

   

Surprisingly we got a LOT of My Little Pony stuff.  Natalie likes brushing the hair so good call everyone!

  

Then cake time!  I made cupcakes with little turtles on top.  

  

Monday night was Natalie's real birthday so we had grandparents over for dinner 

(my mom and dad Skyped in) and Natalie opened more presents and we 

had a purple cake which Natatlie requested.  

  

There is Grammy and G-Pa!

It's been a crazy weekend of PARTIES!

  

   

     

And Papa and Glasses .. I mean Grandma Red. :)

  

Ha! I promise I showered and washed those clothes between Saturday and Monday.  

   

I think she had a good time.  We love you Natalie!