Yo Gabba Gabba Party Prepping

I've been shopping for the past few weeks just gathering supplies for the decorations of Abram's 2nd birthday party and today I finally got around putting some of them together. The theme of course is Yo Gabba Gabba, Abram and Elian's favorite show at the moment. Great show by the way.

I went to Michael's and got some card stock paper for the invitations. I downloaded and printed all the graphics, which came from this amazing mom's tutorial. They came out better than I expected by the way.



I've also started working on the tee shirts the boys are going to wear. Since Abram's favorite Gabba character is Plex, I had to make him the Plex shirt. Elian will be wearing the Muno tee. I've still got to get around sewing them, right now they've got the pins on them to hold the faces in place.


I got this little red container at Dollar Tree and I customized it with a Muno eye and smile. My cutouts are not perfect but when Abram saw it he was all excited. However, I'm putting a cricut on my bday wish list this year. Any donations?


I also printed the heads of all the Gabba characters as they will be part of my centerpieces. I'm just not quite finished with that project, yet.


So far it's been very exciting to work on this bday party theme. I've got Mr. R working on a Plex costume that he will be wearing that day. He is actually pretty creative (and a major perfectionist) when it comes to all these things. I've got to upload a picture of him working on Plex on my next post.
So far

Elian's Baptism

We celebrated Elian's Baptism this past October and although we thought we'd have a rainy day, it was actually a beautiful day, so we went right ahead with Plan A. It was a very special and blessed day in our family.

This was the sign at the entrance of the yard. Now the frame hangs in our bedroom with a picture of the kids, Mr. R and I from this day.

I went to Ikea and got a candle then I came home and made the wrapper in photoshop. To think that I almost ordered one online, mine came out pretty nice. I had this little white picture frame already so all I did was add a picture of my baby boy the day he was born and voila! Cute, cute.

The favors in the basket were cross curio boxes that I ordered online and got an amazing price for them. The ones in the organza bags were decade rosaries that I purchased at a local store. I got the letter E at Michael's, the baskets and small candle at the Dollar Tree. Love how my shoes made it on the picture. I was wearing flats during the party. Hey! It's hard to wear high heels on grass, lol.

The curio boxes came wrapped like this so I had to do nothing but put them in the basket.

A closeup of the decade rosaries.

The Menu.
We hired a taco guy and the tacos were pretty darn delicious and huge.

The night before, my sister and I stayed up very late making these cookies. We made our own icing and they turned out to be delicious. We received many great compliments on them.

The drinks table.
I made the sangria a day before in a hurry, I had so much to do. Anyways, It turned out pretty yummy. It was a popular drink and it's almost gone in this picture.

We used paper lanterns to decorate the inside of the tent. I got the yellow ones on Ebay and the white ones at Goodwill, 2 for a buck, it was a great find so I got a few bags.

On a future post I'm going to upload some of the ceremony pictures. All these photos were taken by jessiesphotos.com and she did great, specially with the family portraits.

Just a Saturday Night

We took the kids out to a local aquarium shop last night and Abram fell asleep on our way there, but Elian was wide awake and loving it.

He really liked touching the fish tanks because the fish would either swim to him or get scared and swim away.

If only Abram would have seen this. I'm sure he would have yelled "NEMO!"

But he was completely asleep the whole time and didn't wake up until we were back in the car.

Vacation is Over

Our vacation is over and we were left with some great memories. Just a little peek into it after the jump.