Bonne Fete!

Today Sparrow and Arrows turns 1! We have had such a great time this year, and are especially grateful to all our great followers and the new blog friends we have made!

Happy Birtyhday Maya!

Happy Monday all! How was your weekend?

Today is Miss Maya's birthday -6 already, time goes do fast!! Her birthday festivities included a trip to the nail salon and getting her ears pierced, and she is going to have little party this Friday.

Hope you all have a great week!

 THEN

NOW

> Jessi

HappY Happy Birthday!

Guess what? It's Cassie's birthday today! With Halloween so close, we decided to celebrate with a girl's weekend next week. But maybe there will be a surprise on Saturday for you.....

Happy Birthday!! X0X0

> Jessi

Happy Birthday Jessi!

Happy Birthday to the best friend a girl could have, 

an awesome mom, and an all around pretty rad lady!

And Thirty-teen is going to be great!

>Cassie

30 is fast approaching....

This Saturday is the big 3-0. But who wants to dwell on that? I think I will focus on the prom party instead! I got my dress (a clearance prom dress from the mall) and started some of the decorations, which included a major craft fail on some doily lamps!

This weeks To Do List:

- Finishing Decorations

- dye  my hair (cause isn't always the best idea to try something new when there will be pictures taken?)
- blowing up TONS of balloons

-making food

- Stringing up lights

-Find some shoes to wear

- and trying to to stress :)

The party has me thinking of our real prom, the drama, the glitter and the alcohol.

Lowlights and Highlights of the actual prom:
- breaking up with my boyfriend the weekend before/ getting to go with my best guy friend instead
- glitter in my hair / glitter in my hair!!!
- not booking a limo/ taking a mini bus instead
- Getting park rangers sent to our campsite for noise / hiding friends in tents and under tables so we weren't kicked out

I'd love to hear your prom stories too! Here are some pics of Cassie and I at our actual prom -at the oh so grown up age of 17 :)

Happy 2nd Birthday Lily!

My youngest is 2 today!!

THEN

NOW

> Jessi

Harry Potter Party Continued

 Here's just a few more things we did for Kate's Harry Potter party (previous posts are here and here)

The craft project we did was something I had made for Kaitlyn for Christmas- Hogwarts notebooks. I designed covers in photoshop and printed them off. We then used dollar store notebooks and pasted on the covers and surrounded it with gold tissue paper, layered on in rough layers. Once the glue was dry, we dry painted on some black paint to make them look old. They got to take them home along with some of our Hogsmeade treats.

Hogwart's Notebooks

my printer was out of ink - hence the oh so lovely hand written signs :)

chocolate frogs (I got the mold at the Bulk Barn)

 > Jessi

11 already! Happy Birthday Kate!

Today my oldest daughter turns 11! Makes me feel old :)

THEN

NOW