So Much To Say

The last couple of days have been busy, busy, busy. Yesterday afternoon I was finally able to complete a hat order I had been working on for a sweet blog friend of mine named Amanda, who I was blessed to meet through my other great friend, Stephanie. Amanda is a mom to four little cuties...three girls and one boy. It was fun working on the hats for her little ones. Since I mostly just get orders for girl hats, it was a nice change of pace to make a boy hat...



And speaking of my hats, Amanda and I are teaming up to do a giveaway on her blog for one of my hats this coming Friday. If you are interested in winning a free hat of your choice, be sure to check back with me on Friday so that I can give you the link to the giveaway or you can just go straight to Amanda's blog to check it out! Thanks so much Amanda for doing that!

After I completed the hats yesterday we went over to my BIL and SIL's house to celebrate two different graduations. The girls and I were supposed to make it to one of the graduations, but didn't make afterall. I guess it worked out anyways, because sometimes it can be a little tricky tending to two small kids at functions like that. At the party, we celebrated the graduation of...

My nephew Joseph, who graduated from the 8th grade. High school here we come!

We also celebrated the 6th grade graduation of Joseph's sister, my niece Breanna! Congratulations you guys!!!

The girls had a blast planning out in the backyard on the trampoline that my BIL and SIL have. Audrey couldn't stop laughing!!!

All in all, we had a fun time getting together with the family!!!

In other news...I've also been busy getting ready for Alyssa's 4th birthday, which is tomorrow already!!! I just can't believe that we're just a day away. It seems like forever since she's been asking me "How much longer until my birthday?" and here it's tomorrow already. I've been so busy go, go, going, it didn't really hit me that she's going to be turning four until last night when I was shopping at the grocery store and had to buy the number four candle. It literally just seems like yesterday when we brought her home from the hospital.

For her party on Saturday, we have decided to do just a small family only gathering and keep things simple. Alyssa chose a princess themed party. Even though we aren't going all out, like we usually do, we still bought some fun stuff to decorate the house for the party. Here are the plates and napkins we got.

We bought all her party stuff here at Birthday Direct.com where everything is always discounted. Alyssa is so excited about her birthday and she keeps asking me when we can start decorating. I think I'm going to work on it tonight and decorate the house when she's sleeping so that tomorrow morning when she wakes up, she'll see balloons and streamers everywhere. I can't wait to see the smile on her face!!!

Here's something else that Alyssa and I are excited about. We asked my very best friend Kristin if she could make a special birthday shirt for Alyssa. What was so funny was that Alyssa knew specifically what she wanted. She actually requested that the shirt say..."Hello everybody, My name is Alyssa and it's my birthday. I'm four!" I was laughing so loud when she said that and I had to tell her that Miss Kristin wouldn't be able to put that many words on a t-shirt! After we discussed how it could only be a couple of words, she decided on "I'm Four." When we got her shirt in the mail, we were sooooo excited. Isn't is just perfect? Notice the matching ponytail holders too?!?! I was just amazed at what an awesome job Kristin did. Each of the letters are hand stitched, can you believe that? Thank you so much Kristin!!! We love it!!!

By the way, if you are interested in something like this, you can go to Summer Suzette Couture to check out some of the cute stuff that Kristin has to offer. Kristin is actually thinking about going in a different direction with her business, so if you wouldn't mind saying a prayer that the Lord would help to let her to know where He wants her to go with everything, that would just mean so much!!!

Well, I guess I'm finally caught up for now. I'd better get back to seeing what else I can get done around here to get ready for the party. Saturday will be here before I know it.

Oh yeah...I just have one more thing to mention...If you are interested in another chance to win a free hat from me, hop on on over to the Pifer Bean blog to see how. Both Julie, my awesome blog designer and friend, and I are offering a free hat (from me) and a free blog design (from Julie) to one lucky winner!

Okay...I think I'm really done now. Happy Wednesday everyone!!!