Peanut Festival 2010

So, very belatedly, here is a recap of the Peanut Festival "weekend adventure" for 2010...Taylor spent the night with us at Adam's parents house...oh the sweet little bed hair!
Immediately upon waking, it was requested that I paint Tay's nails with GLITTER nail polish...
Excited?
There was tree bouncing...
(And subsequent pictures)
And pecan scouting...Taylor reminds me so much of myself - whatever she puts her mind to, she is a little overachiever. Find pecans? Yes, let's not stop until we find them ALL!
Seriously, we found quite a few.
Oh and another thing, we like to pose and take lots of cute pictures and then look at them together.
Then Princess Taylor got a four-wheeler ride with Uncle Adam - who didn't want to take cute pictures...but, notice who did...
But then Uncle Adam snagged this cutey picture to make Auntie Amber happy...
Up close on the glitter nails.
Then Taylor decided to try this pose (on her own!) to show off her nails...hahaha! Adorable!
She also realized how cute she is with Auntie Amber's giant pink flower headband on her head...aw!
Case in point...
There was also a lot of playing with Meg's old teddy bears...and perhaps a picture with every single one of them?
Oh, and lots of giggling.
Then...the Peanut Festival! She has Uncle Adam wrapped around her finger...

For example: Cotton Candy? Sure, darlin'!
Want to ride on my shoulders so you can see everything? Hop up!
Want a ride on the fun slide? Ask Auntie Amber who is scared of heights because that will be funny. (Ha! Not. But I did it anyways.)
This is my that-was-sort-of-fun-but-I'll-never-admit-it-to-Adam face (below). Ha. Also, notice my death grip on Taylor. You know, for safety purposes.
But even after all that fun with Auntie Amber, who did she want? That's right...Uncle Adam.
So the next scary ride was all his! The ferris wheel!
She loved this little pony and cart and took a million pictures on it.
All of which were so crazy cute.
They have these interactive farm exhibits where you can play free games and do fun versions of "farm chores."
The three of us!
And a shot of Uncle Adam playing a throwing game...he only plays two games (he can hardly stand to spend the money on those two) and this is one of them.
Then, we went home. Taylor was so tired and kept waking up disoriented, so I rode in the back with her to keep her company.

What else? Oh I put some scrapbooking layouts in and won several prizes, but due to a policy change regarding pickup, I probably won't be putting any in this year.

There was a lot more, but I quit taking pictures. Which is weird...but I guess once Taylor started getting tired, I was holding her a lot more and couldn't.

Wow. I've had some wordy picture posts, lately. :)
Oh well, I'm sure Melissa and my mom appreciate them..haha!
Amber

Megan's Blue Green & Yellow Gender Neutral Bird Themed Baby Shower

Whew. This is going to be a long post. Finally, a couple months after the event, a recap of Megan's baby shower. At the time, we didn't know what she was having and we went with a gender neutral theme of birds/owls and a blue/green/yellow/kraft color scheme.

Krystal, Christina, and I came up with the idea to cover the poles throughout the room with little trees made from posterboard and rolled brown paper (crinkled up) with a smattering of birds on the trees and an owl (leftover from the invitations here) nestled in the "hollow" of the tree.
Here's a shot of the most of the room. We made the "Welcome Baby Trimble" banner with the Cricut and scrapbooking paper, strung onto ribbon. The tablecloths were alternating colors with either a painted stick tree or an apothecary jar with a bird in a bird nest with a banner (see a few pictures down).
This is where the mommy-to-be and her mother (my MIL) sat...
The mommy-to-be badge we made for Meg to wear.
Here they are...
One of the games we played - matching baby pictures of friends and family to their adult pictures.
Maternity pictures and the thumbprint tree.
The prize table!!! Lot of AVON (donated by my mom - thanks Mama!), candy and a couple of $5 giftcards.
This was one of my very favorite ideas - the thumbprint tree. I cut out a Cricut tree shape, and had the guests put a green fingerprint "leaf" onto the branches with their name underneath. It started out like this...
And started to get really full of "leaves" - we took this to the family shower too, and then I framed it - pictures of that soon.
Oh dessert. We went a little craaazy. Haha...actually, the whole shower is crazzzy over-the-top. What can I say? I was so excited for my new little niece or nephew! :) We had two tables of dessert - one was a cake/cupcake table and the other was just jam-packed with all sorts of yummy goodies...
Here are the two tables side-by-side. The banner says "Have a sweet tweet" and the green poster is Meg's weekly pregnancy shots...
Close up of the dessert table...
I made about 75 cupcakes (three flavors - chocolate, vanilla, and lemon), some with a "nest" theme. I looooved making these - it might have been my favorite part. I made little toppers with an elephant punch and leftover punched circles from the scraps of the papers I used to make the banners...
Some had white chocolate shavings to form a nest, and on some I piped the icing to look like a nest, complete with chocolate egg candies to make the eggs.Christina's mom made the cake, and I made a little banner topper with with two birds in a nest with the "baby" egg...about to hatch! Oh, I know. The cheesy cuteness is ridiculous! :)There were other handmade sweet "tweets" - chocolate nests nestled in a wreath "nest" (how many times can you say nest!?!)
Chocolate covered pretzels and marshmallows...
Handmade chick cake pops by Sis. Jennifer - they were soooo cute!
Table centerpieces...
Jackie came over and helped us paint the "stick trees" - thanks for the help Jackie!! :)
Our second game was to have groups of two to three make onesies for the baby...I brought a bunch of supplies (fabric paint, pre-washed onesies, pom-poms, felt icons/sayings, buttons, fabric markers, etc.)
We let Taylor be the judge (a 4 year old) of which one she thought was "best" - this one was the winner...made by Stacy
And this was another one I loved...there were so many cute ones, but since I already have so many pictures...these are the two that made it to blogland...
There were many presents...
This one being my favorite (ha! because it was mine...hehe!) I had a verrrry crafty lady at the church make these little crocheted animals for me to match Meg's baby room...if you want to buy some, here is her blog (here's a link to her store as well! She makes custom orders and does great work! :) )
And one with my girly-girls...oh how I loooove these two sugar-muffins.
Krystal & I
We had so much fun doing this shower...it was so over-the-top, but it will probably be one of the last big showers I throw since most of my friends are married and have already had kids... It was a fun chance to get together with friends and work on it, when we'd otherwise have been too busy to just get together. And it turned out, so, so cute. And I am definitely a sucker for cute.

You were and are so loved, Meg. As is baby Bear!!!! It was all worth it! :)

In another post, I will post the baby book I made of the shower and framed fingerprint tree...until then!
Amber