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.

1920's Murder Mystery

My husband & I celebrated our 26th birthday with a Murder Mystery Dinner Party. The setting was 1920's and theme was straight "gangsta" :P. Perfect for men to get excited about participating in! This was by far my most elaborate planning as far as the small details were concerned. I purchased the game from www.dinnerandamurder.com, I added my own special touches throughout the game!

I even won for best party in November 2009! Check out my entry and game details here!

Cavitt's 4th Birthday

For my friend's son I planned an active party for a really active little boy. When choosing a theme, I really try to pick something that will match the honoree's personality. Considering this boy loved all things sports- basketball, football, baseball, soccer, golf... you get it right? & since his family is really close knit, I created a family Olympic style party!

So for his birthday I helped his parents host the Fowlers Olympics! When the guests arrived they were told to go over to the craft table where white cloth was attached to sticks as a flag. They were instructed to choose a team name and decorate their flags.

Once the teams were set, the competition began. Each round had a different sport obstacle to tackle. It was fun seeing all ages compete and hearing their teams cheering for them! At the conclusion, 1st 2nd and 3rd place medals were given out. It was a really fun party that got everyone involved, from babies to grandparents!

Dr. Seuss Ice Cream Party

For Jace's 2nd birthday

In another new town (few friends & family), I celebrated his party with an afternoon get together with my mommy group! Inspired by Jace's love for Dr. Seuss Green Eggs and Ham and other books. I made it a book party! With

the sunshine, I decided to keep it simple and have an Ice Cream Sandwich buffet, with different ice cream, toppings, and cookies to make pazookies!

My chalk art on the walkway was a drawn picture of the Cat in the hat & the words: Could you, would you Celebrate? Would you? Could you, It'd be Great!!!

Inspired by a $4.99 Thing 1 shirt I saw at Ross, my love for ice cream, and my desire to do things inexpensively, I formulated a Dr. Seuss Ice cream party.

Colors: red, dark blue, light blue, black, and white (I think 2-3 colors is never enough!)

Activities: I made bookmarks with curly ribbon leftover from the balloon string, had set up a bookmark craft table for the kids to make their own bookmark: ABC stamps, Dr. Seuss stickers, ice cream stickers, & markers.

I created a few quizzes for the mommies. I made another game board, this time with "ice cream flavor" names. One of the games was to call the moms by their new names, nothing is funnier than being called Sprinkles or Chocolate all day!


After the rounds of games, i.e. Name that Seuss- I had pictures of Dr. Seuss books with the titles blotted out and they had to identify them.... the winner won a Dr. Seuss "I Can read with my eyes shut" book for their children and a Coldstone giftcard with a fun sprinkle spoon nicely attached to the book, for the mom or child.


The object was for the moms to compete in a chance to win a prize for their child while the kids made bookmarks (since it was a storybook party). The craft was aimed at the children 18 mos-3 years.

For party favors, I made sugar cookies cut out in the #2. I put 2 in the bag, one sugar and one cinnamon sugar with a tag that said: "I'm so glad, so glad you see... that you would come to celebrate me! Thank you, thank you, Jace age 2" with a thing 2 picture. The kids gobbled them up!
I think party favors should be something to be enjoyed not something that ends up under the seat of your car cause its just a bunch of 5cent toys that break in 2 seconds and cause major choke hazards or hard candies that you cringe when you see that your child is going to ask to eat that!