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Saturday night we celebrated the boys' 4th birthday with an OCEAN theme.  This was such a fun there because you could do so many different things with it.  So here goes the pinspired party planning madness!  I will be sure to post actual party pics later.  Looking forward to getting a bit more sleep this week:)


The hats were so much fun last year, we though we would do them again, only this year I had 6 instead of 4.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a pretty sweet dance party in the boys' room after we had cake! 

 

 

she loved it!

 

Working on my carving skills!  

I was going to do sand.  Keith said, I don't think you can mail sand.  I called the post office to see if they would have a problem with me mailing sand.  She said she would have a problem.  Not the sand really, it's just that they wouldn't know it was sand! So I went with the sparkly blue paper.  (BTW, no plans to cut out octopuses in my near future)

 

I usually do soups for the boys' party since it is always nice for a good fall day.  Too bad I don't know how to make clam chowder or jumbalya.  Thought I should play it a little bit safer with chicken noodle and lasagna soup.  

At the party store I found a blue flashing light and a disco ball, totally brought the dance party up to a new level!

No ocean is complete without birds!

I think it is safe to say we had a lot of TIRED boys last night:)  Maybe next year we will brave a friend or neighborhood party!  

More pics to come....

My latest Pinterest project

As I have mentioned before - like most projects, here is another that I will reveal at 95% complete, since   who knows when we will be 100% complete!

I saw this dark wall with white frames on Pinterest here and decided I wanted to do something similar.  I decided the wall connecting our bedroom and master bath would work well - except one challenge was the arch that connected to the wall.

So initially I painted the wall on the left, but it just looked odd.  I was a bit nervous to paint the entire hallway in case it looked like a dark tunnel.  Now that I painted it all, I'm happy I did!  It looks much better with all of it painted than the one wall.  

Then it was time to put many years of picture hanging to use!  I knocked this out in record speed - about an hour!  Which is pretty impressive for me because I lined them up - not just my typical quick eye the spot - nail in the wall, step away and review, add a second nail and reposition- OK, just right approach.  I wanted them to line up, so I had to be a bit more on the precise side.  I did use picture hanging wire to speed up the hanging process.

So now about those green frames in the earlier posts???  I couldn't find the frames I wanted and found these at Michael's in green, so I ended up buying them and spray painting them a sparkling silver.  

Now what I am waiting on would be the pictures to fill the frames, I will be putting some of our maternity pictures in these.  

The boys were funny about these.  First they said, is that mom and dad - where is Carter and Dylan.  Then this morning Carter asked me if that was their "old dad".  

 

Another Pinterest project in the works

This is one I have been thinking about for a couple months- just working on the nerves to go for it.  You can always repaint, right???  This one won't be complete for a while, I'll keep you posted!