Ooh La La!

Marin has always loved dressing up, princesses, and all things girl, so of course we love Fancy Nancy books at our house! It was only appropriate that Miss Marin requested a Fancy Nancy themed birthday party. Oh I had fun planning it. It was divine (that's fancy for very wonderful). Mitch was a little surprised when he walked in and saw everything I had made because I've just kind of been puttering away at making the decorations for the past few weeks (usually when Kate and Andrew are napping). On a sappier note, I can't believe my little princess turned 6 years old. Time flies when you're having fun. When I was setting out the decorations Marin said, "This party just keeps getting fancier!" That's what I call success!

The fancy birthday girl

These were the invites. They came in these little purse shaped envelopes.

They opened up like this.

And here is what the invitation said... For those of you who are unfamiliar with Fancy Nancy books, she likes to use big flashy words and then explains them in parentheses afterward. She also loves French words. These books are great vocab teachers! 

The spread

The cupcakes

My cute mom reading Fancy Nancy books to the girls as they arrived. She is a teacher so as you can see, she was very captivating (that's fancy for interesting).

More decor

The girls decorating their pots. We potted some purple pansies in them after they were decorated and the girls took them home.

My cute sis-in-law Callie helping with the manicures

And the favor bags.

Au revoir!

Easter 2012

We spent the Saturday before Easter with some of my favorite people, including:

Miss Marin (a.k.a. Egg Hunt Helper Extraordinaire) 

Little Man (a.k.a. Grass Eater)

Matthew Ethington (a.k.a. Designated Baby Holder)

James Ethington (a.k.a. Chunk Chunk)

Jaren (a.k.a. The Favorite Uncle)

Avree (a.k.a. Lookin' Hot 4 Months Post-Baby)

Callie (a.k.a The Cute Easter Bunny *she hid the eggs*)

Me (a.k.a. Tax Accountant Widow)

Kate (a.k.a. Chalk Eater)

Spencer Ethington (a.k.a. Serious About the Egg Hunt)

And Mitch--waayyyy in the background (a.k.a. My Hot Tax Accountant)

The Nelsons (also some of my favorite people) joined us later for a little birthday shindig for Mitch. We ate some pie and laughed a lot. I'm so glad I live close to all of these great people!

Easter Sunday was great. The Easter Bunny did not forget the Moncurs. Marin was thrilled. Kate finally figured out how to find Easter Eggs and that they contain candy. My kids were so naughty in church I was close to tears-- but I did have one moment of the Easter Spirit when I was subbing in Marin's class and I got to bear my testimony about the Resurrection of Christ. All in all, an Easter I don't want to forget (which is why I blogged about it).

Little Man and his personal stash of Goldfish crackers

Marin carrying Little Man in to see what the Easter Bunny brought

I knew I would be pictured sometime so you can see I wore my nicest PJ's

In Which An Easter Decoration Became More Than I Bargained For...

All of these ideas on Pinterest are lovely and I always have grand plans for the finished product... but it's the execution of the plan/project that is always a drag. This project in particular took so much longer than I imagined it would. But once I bought the stuff and got done wrapping about 3 eggs (this is the point where I thought, "uh oh"), I couldn't quit. One thing I learned, if you ever want to attempt this little baby, is to get the fattest yarn you can... for obvious reasons. It would have been a lot less tedious not to have to wrap these babies a million times and use like 50 hot glue sticks. I am posting pictures of this a) to brag because I thought it turned out super cute, and b) because I only finished it last week and Easter is almost here and I'll have to take it down so I need to get all of the leverage out of it that I can. (How is that for a run-on sentence my English teacher friends?) So here you go-- my One and Only Easter decoration:

 Here is where I hung it:

 

Happy Easter!