Deadmond's Babyshower

I was blessed to have the best people to plan for when it came to plan my first party as an "official party planner"! Jasmine & Brian were expecting their first baby, a boy!

The theme was chosen from his nursery decor. Since it was co-ed, I planned each game to be very competitive and to get everyone involved. I made a scoreboard and seperated everyone into teams. I used the 4 Kansas City professional teams, since that is where the couple is originally from.

The 4 teams went head to head for each round of competition to finally win a cool prize of at the conclusion of the games. Jasmine prepared huge beer mugs filled with candy. I can atest that my husband uses his huge mug on a regular basis, it was perfect gift for a co-ed party!

It was great food, a lot of fun, and I felt it was successful because my goal was accomplished in having everyone meet one another and have a good time. I really try to avoid that awkward party moment when people don't know one another and small talk gets a bit boring. And after the feedback, I was pleased to hear I eliminated that!!! My biggest compliment was hearing a wife tell me her husband didn't want to go to a "baby shower" but was pleased to admit he had a really great time. If I can have Navy men enjoy a baby shower I've done my job!









All photos were taken by Chrissy Kim of Chrissy Kim Photography! Cake created by Cecille of Bella & Ava's.

St Patrick's Day!

I planned a quick and easy St. Patrick's Day play date with my mommy friends. This was my first year truly celebrating St. Paddy's Day. I researched the Holiday's history and instantly wanted to celebrate! While learning some fascinating facts about the man we celebrate on this day, I also reconfirmed the notion that I didn't learn jack in public school! LOL Oh well, thankfully, learning is a life long process!

With a few and inexpensive decorations: a few green balloons, pom poms, and a handmade rainbow sign on computer paper with glitter markers, a few stickers, and a plastic green table cloth I was able to create a mini festive look in my apartment!

I made a rainbow bar: rainbow skittles, rainbow cupcakes w/ pastry pride frosting to represent "clouds", and we made rainbow fruit kabobs.

The kids played a patio game, they had to throw a penny and depending on what square it landed, we all did a certain activity. The clover squares earned the kids a certain colored skittle. The other squares were activities such as sing ABC's, count to 10, jump, twirl, sing If your happy and you know it, do the hokey pokey, name the colors of the rainbow, and some required the activities to be done in Spanish or sign language. Once that was over, the mom's blew up balloons and we cranked up the kiddie music and they had to dance and keep their balloon from touching the ground. It was fun Wednesday morning! My best St. Paddy's day thus far.