Party Time

We made a whirlwind trip to Nanny and Papa's on Saturday.  One of Casey's cousins turned 10.  We spent most of the day warm outside, and enjoyed it due to a nice breeze in this late summer season. 

The birthday boy is the one on the right.

Casey.

Cade.

Uncle Dave with Carson and Cade.

Dave and Case.

Look who's tired...Guess that's what you get when you try to keep up with the kids.

Because of the wind, it was hard to light the candles.

We celebrated Keeley's birthday too.  She is our aunt-to-be.  Nanny made her a red velvet cake with PW's cream cheese icing.  YUM.

Cute boys.

It was a good day.

Colorful Canvas

Do you ever feel like you need a fun project?  And I don't mean cleaning out your closet, although sometimes that is enjoyable to me.
Anyway, I saw this idea on The Pleated Poppy (you should click and see hers first) and really wanted to create one for our home.

A mix of brown, gold, white, and gray.

Casey helped me with the geometry part of it.  He is very precise and has a steady hand.

I bought a 24 inch ruler with a metal straight edge.  It was nice to have around.

Our squares are 2 inches by 2 inches because we used a 4 inch circle.  According to Lindsey, you half your circle for the squares. 

We used a protractor to trace our circles.   

Now for the most time consuming/fun part.

I really like the neutral colors - the black, white, brown, and gray really make the canvas "pop" in my opinion.  As you can maybe tell from this photo, I had to do a second coat for some of the colors.

Here is the finished product! I love color.  You should have seen my freshman dormroom.

Not sure which way I want it to hang yet.

One thing is for sure, the old nails it is hanging on nail are not level...Oh well, easily fixed.

Lake Time

Sunday evening Casey played for the senior party my boss and his wife gave for their nephew.   The weather was perfect!  The seniors had a great time, and so did we.  We enjoyed Delta food, and made sure Hattiesburgian's knew what they were eating.  You see, the guest of honor (the nephew) has grandparents that live in Greenville, MS.  They brought (uncooked)burgers (that were grilled at the party), slaw, and chili from the local restaurant known as Gino's in Greenville.  I can't tell you how many times I ate at Gino's while growing up.  Then, for dessert we had grilled Krispy Krime doughnuts.  So good.

Big Bay Lake.

Dancing and singing to Michael Jackson's "I want you back."

Some of the senior boys chose to do a little karaoke.

It doesn't get much better than that.

Diaper Cake

I have been meaning to post these pictures for awhile now.  Two weeks ago I helped host a baby boy brunch shower for my friend Marianna.  I was responsible for the cinni mini's and the diaper cake.  Thankfully, my college rommie, Amy came into town.  She is way crafty.

Rubber bands are important in the making of this cake.  (I'm sure there are other ways to do it).

I think baby socks are just the sweetest.

We built it on one of my cake plates, in order to determine the size.  Once we had rolled/rubberbanded enough individual diapers, I held them together while Amy placed a big rubber band around each layer.  We stuffed/adjusted as needed.  I think our top layer was either 7 or 8 diapers total.  Target brand diapers are fun, and less expensive versus a white namebrand diaper. 

Here is Mrs. Crafty in action. 

The icing between the layers.

Trying to figure out the placement for the socks, etc.

Ta-Da!

We took the finished product over to the host house, and set it up on the gift table with the little soft bear next to it.

But it ended up as the centerpiece for the food table.  It received many ooh's and ahh's.

These hung over the diaper cake.

It was a sweet time.

Looks like the next baby shower in our little circle will be for a girl!