Crazy Love Gamble-Style

 Birthday hats off to Erik & Tiffani, they threw the perfect party for Colton's 6.5! Colton is a Christmas day baby so they do this half birthday every year in June, so much better then it getting totally lost in the Christmas holiday madness.  Plus the weather rocks, gotta love that!  They did lots of simple games that the kids really enjoyed.  This one was a 3 man intertwined relay, so fun!  On your marks, get set...GO!  Some teams did great, some totally fell apart.  Norah just watched, she's dying to be a big kid.  If you ask her how old she is she says "I'm SIX!"  Next they hung doughnuts from a tree, each kid had to eat theirs with no hands and without letting the doughnut fall to the ground.   What a great idea!  So fun to watch!  Even if you don't "win" you still get a doughnut!  Great decorations too!  Next Erik hid a bunch of toy...

Ok, I'm not a crafty person, I'm actually quite challenged  in that area, however, I'm feeling pretty happy about  this little project.   A few Easters ago I made these cute wine charms for our champagne flutes: (what's Easter without mimosas?) It's a bit hard to see in the picture but I took a little bag of foam eggs & bunnies from the dollar store, glued them  together, punched a hole in them & added a ribbon.  They were super cute. For Norah's birthday I wanted to come up with something  equally adorable and had the idea to use mini pictures of  Norah on each glass, how cute is that? I started with a photo collage, 4x6, it was about 9 cents, I printed two so I could make the pictures double sided. You could simply glue them together but I thought it would be even cuter if they had a little boarder, I used  1 piece of yellow construction paper & a glue stick.  It only took a few ...