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Our Buckaroo is Turning Two!!!

Not yet, I loved Ruark's first birthday party so much I am getting ideas for his second birthday. I am thinking of doing a cowboy theme, "our Buckaroo is turning Two" it was all inspired while I was searching for baby shower ideas and a friend emailed me this darling idea at Hostess with the Mostess. I found this idea for invitations at Porters!

Not sure how we are going to have hay bales for seating in our house because it will be the middle of the winter, but I love this idea and would love to use it for our party.

Aren't these such a darling place settings? I just love it!!

Goodness knows I have plenty of Mason Jars I could use for glasses for the beverage. Just stick in a straw and bam! They even added a little "howdy" sign on them.

They made individual fruit pies for everyone, and for dinner serve an Idaho Cowboy dinner. Chili, biscuits, baked potatoes and all the fixings. I would love if we could do horse rides too seeing as how my dad has horses. I think this would be a great idea to do in a barn, which my dad also happens to have a beautiful red barn....maybe that something to think about.

In the meantime I am gathering together ideas to go with a cowboy theme, lucky for me Oriental Trading just sent me a magazine this week with cowboy theme birthday parties...how lucky for me!!! They have really cheap ideas for parties, to outfit Ruark's party last year all together it was around $75, you can find coupon codes for free shipping and % off to make it even more cost effective. For now, I'm still surfing the Internet to find more ideas, so if anyone has any more ideas let me know!

Baby Shower Time

In a little less than two weeks I am throwing a baby shower for my little sister!! Ok technically, she's my sister-in-law, but she's the baby sister I've always wanted!! She is due May 25th and is going to have a boy, so for the past few months I have been preparing things to give her the baby shower she deserves.

Lucky for me I have a best friend who loves planning parties and crafts as much as I do! So we have been surfing blogs and craft sites for the past few months getting ideas. Here are some things we've worked on so far.

I wish you could see the invitation better because they are so pretty, I found the paper and envelopes at Artco, LOVE that store! For 50 invitations it was $5.30, amazing! I printed everything out here at home and I love the way they turned out, they are the prettiest baby shower invitations I've ever seen.

It says, "a little baby boy is on the way let's shower his mommy to "bee" before the big day"

There are two little bees at the bottom. There is an envelope at the bottom that hold the information for the diaper raffle. I had never heard of one until my little sister mentioned it to me. It's a great way to get a supply of diaper for new parents. I found a little poem that says, " to add a little extra glee and help the parents-to-"bee" please bring a little extra from the heart, an unwrapped pack of diapers to give them a good start" They can enter as many times as they like, each pack of diapers equals one name at the end, we put their names in a bowl and the winner gets a nice prize.

We tried our hand at a diaper cake, and I love how it turned out!! Have you ever seen a prettier diaper cake? It's up on my mantel being used as decoration until the shower.

These are a great idea, such a cheap way to get decorations. Tissue paper pom poms, they will hang from the trees to give some color. This is a picture courtesy of Designmom. I have even seen where they make small garlands out of the tissue paper pom-poms. For a how-to go to Martha Stewart

These will be the napkin rings, we used ribbon and buttons from the big bin at Porters to tie around the utensils for everyone's meal. Everything is yellow, orange and touch of black from the bumble bees that we're adding. Can't wait to have the shower. We're planning on having it outside I'm hoping the Idaho weather will cooperate! Those tissue pom pom's won't stand a chance against out Idaho wind!