Arianna's 3rd Birthday Party

Here are the party favors for this year just waiting for this party to start.  This year I tried to really stayed within the party theme " Fisherman's Bear and Balloons".  (Fisherman's Bear is Little Bear's bear).  This is Arianna's favorite cartoon right now.  She had asked me for a fisherman's bear awhile ago and when I was making it, it just hit me that this would me the theme for her birthday.  I also put some oreo's cookies, cow tales, lemon heads, chocolates, etc...

 Arianna was sick for her birthday.  The day before she had a high fever, I was not sure if I was going to have to cancel or not.  The day of her birthday she was still with fever, but the fever was less and tylenol helped her enjoy her day.  Plus, having a blanket by your side is always a plus in her book.

 This is Dennis's little girl she got better once Kerri's son came by.  I guess it is not just our little girl that is so shy.

 Kerri's son.  He has the best cheeks ever.  You just want to squeeze them with a big kiss :)

 Arianna was playing with her cousins and friends on her swing set.  She was going up and down on the slide.

 Hello Mr.  Glenn.  He was having a blast as well.  It had rained in the morning and we were not sure how temperature was going to be, but it cooperated and we had a nice day.  No more raining until about 8 pm and we were cleaning by then.

 Raven helped me with Arianna while I was busy she kept a close check on her.  Thank you Raven!

 And Scarlett, she did an awesome job of keeping up with my daughter as well.  Both cousins are so good to her.  I guess if she is the only child, I don't feel as bad because she has wonderful cousins.

 This was the cake!  I ordered a chocolate cake (her favorite) and this was the closest to a bear picture that Jewel had.  It was cute though.  We also had her favorite - pizza! Plus, I ordered some Portillo's salad, and we had something new - ice cream sundaes! Yummy!

We were singing happy birthday (and unfortunately our heads got cut, but you can see the kiddies) 

 Arianna and her grandmother sharing a piece of cake.  The cake had fresh strawberries, and whipped cream for frosting.  Our Jewel actually has a good baking section.

 Here is the proud papa!  He loves his White Sox T-shirt that I got for father's day.  Maybe I should get him another shirt.

 The kids started playing with the balloons.  They created their own game where they will count to 3 and throw the balloon in the air, it looked nice.  Then, they just started hitting each other with the balloons. 

 I wondered what the conversations between toddlers are...

 Still playing with the balloons.

 Now, it is balloon and swing...

 Arianna's favorite part was when everyone let go of their balloons in the air!

Time for everyone to go.  It was getting dark.  Bye Dave and Tiff!

 I think Glenn liked his bear :)

 Myrna and family.  Thank you for coming :)

 Sarah trying to hide!  I did get you with my other camera.  I'll post some of those later.

 My sister enjoying a relaxing moment after helping me a lot.  Thanks Sis.

 Myrna's kids getting their party favor.  I hope they enjoyed the bear and the candies.

 My good friend Jeaneth!  She is soon to be a mom.  Next time your here, you will be going after your little one as well. :)

 Oh, here you are Sarah and Jamie.  Thank you for coming :)

 Nice picture.  Maybe next time Paul can join us as well.

 Thanks to my mom for helping me as well.  Here is my cousin Marcela :)

 

Arianna was so tired by now, but we thank everyone that came to celebrate with us our little girl's birthday.  Until the next one! (I forgot to contact some friends of mine for this celebration. Sorry, I would make it up to you :)  )

Jamie's Graduation Party

Jamie's Graduation Party !! We are very proud of your accomplishments and we are happy that we were able to go and have an awesome time!  Here are some of the pictures for you to see!

We were making tacos! The food was just delicious...

I bought Mike this shirt for his birthday and he loved it.  I think he looks great in it :)

The table was set and the party was going...

I love these pictures :)

 

Time for cake!

Relaxation and stories ended the day.  It was just perfect!

Congratulations Jamie!

Cancelled GRill Party Not!

I was so tired that the Garden Party that I wanted to do was cancelled.  So, I called everyone but I could not get hold of my mom until two days before and when  I did she said "What? I am still coming!"  But, I cancelled I said.  She said ,  "I already did a lot of stuff for the party".  Party was back on. (We ended up having pork chops, chicharron, steak, rice, beans, guacamole...) On Saturday, the family came and had a very good grilling party.  My mom even bought me the only tomatoes and peppers that made it into the ground.  This is the first year that I don't go crazy buying plants - mostly flowers with some vegetables.  Maybe I can still buy some flowers for my empty pots...

These are the flowers that my mom bought.

My clematis that I planted 3 summers ago!  This year is doing wonderful :)

Arianna loving her swing and slide!

Thank you mom.  You are awesome :)

Arianna's Second Party!

I tried to do a sort of Blue's Clues Theme. Sort of because they really don't sell Blue's stuff anymore. But, I found these balloons that had paw prints on them and I added some other ones that did not. Ari loves balloons so she was happy. She kept saying "Thank you mommy, that is nice". After each balloon was inflated and ready to go on the dining room.

For party favors for the girls, I did these dolls with help from my mom (I found the pattern in Martha Steward's website, but the pattern came from Emily Martin from The Black Apple, although I changed the legs to small and chubby in most of them) Thanks to my mom for all the help, and my sister for cutting the fabric for the monsters. I know she does not like that so more kudos to you! For the boys, I forgot to take a picture, but it was a "doggy, sort of alien, monster plushy toy" made with a very soft fluffy fabric that had paw prints all over. I heard Phoenix when he said "That is exactly what I needed." I thought that was so funny, but I am glad that he liked it. The dolls or monster where inside this plastic ball that was 1/2 blue, 1/2 transparent with a pen, candy, and stickers.

In this picture, she had just woken up from her nap so daddy was taken care of her until she was brave to go on her own.

Hi Jenny! My mom's goddaughter came to celebrate as well. She is 2 too!

All of the kids were wearing their party hats including Raven that was posing for the picture.


My sister was so happy that she did not have to cook this time. It was a pretty laid back party. Lots of pizza, chips, salad, sodas and beer.


Hi Dave and Tiffany!


I liked this shot. Raven was about to hit the ball. I like the movements and how you can see the balloons.


Blue's Clues. We were supposed to play the "put the paw print", but I opted for no. I had one prize winner, but I did not want the other kids to feel bad so it was for decoration purposes only.

Pinata time. It was so funny, we could not find something good to hit, so we used a bat, a brush, a branch, until we found a broom's stick, but only to have the pinata destroyed the next time. It was sooooo heavy, so I knew it was not going to hold for a long time. Many of the kids could not hit it, but no one seemed to mind when they saw a bunch of candies!


Getting ready for the cake. Here is Raven and Santana.

Blue's cake! I know I was going to bake the cake, but after Mike got sick time just flew by so I ordered it. I still will bake with the cake pan that I bought.



My mom is so hard to picture, always turning away. So, here she is with Santana.

A few post of Ari opening her presents. Thanks to everyone. All gifts were very lovely!





Tony had to leave to go to work so I snatched a family picture before he did. It is sort of tradition that I am trying to keep.


Thanks to Myrna and her girls for coming to the celebration!

Hi Glenn. Here he is with the party favors that I was telling you about.

Everyone else was waiting for their ball!


Thanks to Michelle for some wonderful cookies. Yummy!

Rosalva and Family. Always so nice, thanks as well.

I finally got myself in the pictures. Tiffiney and Jeaneth (and Amparito) so nice to come. The party was just amazing.

I have to keep working at it, Valana and Debbie turned when I was about to take the shot, but we still see you. Thanks !

We ate and drank. Now, it was all about talking and having a great time. Francisco helped us clean. That was nice :)


A nice shot of Tiffiney.

Logan about to open his candies.


My brother's family. (Carlos, Eli, Santana)


Which picture is better? I cannot decide. But one of them will be our picture for this year's birthday.

After everyone left, Arianna was going through her presents. Here she is reading to papa.

I know I had lots of thank yous in here, but we have so many people and so many reasons to be thankful. So, please forgive my repetitiveness, but I wanted to make sure everyone knows how much we love you and appreciate all the things you do for us. Thanks to everyone and here to a great year!