the party that never happened

Whew, this past week has been a blur.  Friday was Evaleigh's 2nd Birthday.  I decided to be all "I'm a cool pinterest mom" and put balloons in Evies room the night before her birthday so they would be a fun surprise for her when she woke up in the morning.  John and I crept up to her room after we heard her start to stir and I began recording a video to see her reaction.  Well, it went something like this...

HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAYYY!  

AH!  

Oh woops.

Oh thats throw up. 

Yeah.  

You ok?  

Ok. 

It was horribly sad...and graphic.

Evie spent all of her birthday wrapped in sheets with a nasty stomach bug.  Since we didn't want to plauge our whole family with the sickness we had to cancel her party.  I was pretty sad about it.  Her Auntie flew in from Colorado and John's Dad and step-mom came up from Florida. We are hoping they didn't all go home with the bug.

So here it is, the party that never happened. It was supposed to be a sewing theme party with a vintage Holly Hobby sewing machine, old wooden thread spool garland, a spool cake topper, and a hand made sewn bday banner.

I have a 5 layer confetti cake sitting in my refrigerator that I have no clue what to do with. 

The good news is that by that night she was running around saying, "I two I two I two."  The bad news is, John and Avett and I all caught the bug too.  Hopefully we will all be back to normal by tomorrow. 

Happy 2nd Birthday darling, sorry you spent your special day trying to keep down bites of pedialyte popsicles.

woodland themed shower for AMM

Last night my friend Chablis threw me and AMM the most adorable Woodland Themed Baby Shower.  She spared absolutely no detail and made it so special for me.  I felt like a woodland fairy princess and when I went home I wanted to sleep in my flower crown.

Thank you to everyone who came and thank you to Chablis for making it an evening I won't forget.

Now there is only one problem, I don't know how I'm going to fend EJ off from that over sized puppy.  She will probably hyperventilate with excitement when she sees it. "PUPP-PEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"  She is already going to be stealing things from her brother.

a garden tea party

Tonight we had one more little goodbye party for our Lis.  Julia and Rachel threw the most beautiful garden tea party in Lisa's sisters back yard.  Although it was sweltering and there was no shortage of summer bugs it was so beautiful and the food was incredible.  Evie ran around 'playing' Bocce ball and picking up leaves and twigs up off of the ground.  The boys wore bowties and the ladies wore gloves and hats.  It was the perfect Southern send off.

goodbye

My dearest and greatest friend is moving away and I couldn't be more happy or more sad about it.   I am so excited for the new phase in Lisa's life but I will miss her and her snaps and dances terribly.  The promise of Skype dates calms the sting a bit.  So last night Jamie and I threw her a little going away party complete with a surprise gift of a new Baby Lock sewing machine that we all chipped in for.  It was great to be together.  

We will all miss you so much Lis and hope that Utah is everything you dream it will be!