Father's Day Celebration

I hope everyone had a great father's day a few weeks ago.

The guys in our family enjoy golfing. So all the guys went golfing in the morning, while the women stayed home and got the meal ready. I guess that isn't any different from our daily routine :)

We decided to make a crab boil and decorate a little. We didn't do too much of decorating, just some balloons, some signs, and that's it!

I might add that the guys were having too much fun at the golf course that they had to wait a few hours after they were done in order to drive home. They were supposed to be home by 2pm, they ended up getting back at almost 6pm.  In the mean time we were waiting and having some champagne.

My niece made these cute golf themed cupcakes. You might notice some of them were missing frosting. That was done on purpose, my dad does not like frosting at all, so she made some with out.

I made a sign that included golf and a crab boil picnic images.

Here is most of the food ready to get boiled!

The guys finally arrived, and they were hungry.  

We started them with a chicken salad and a drink.

Main meal is on it's way, and their ready with their bibs on :)

Boy was the tray heavy. Not sure what kind of faces 

my brother is making.

They were all acting funny that day.

Dining table got messy fast!

My dad and I, he didn't go golfing, so he hung around and helped.

Doesn't he look cute wearing this shirt?

My hubby and I, he is sunburned and looks like his ready for a nap lol.

The crab boil turned out delish. 

It's a meal that is super easy to put together, can't wait to do another one!

Zuppa Toscana Soup

If your looking for a quick meal this one is for you. No more than an hour to prep and cook. 

This soup is inspired by Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscana Soup, and it's a now a family favorite at home. 

The hubby found this video, and it's super easy to follow. Her music is fun too!

I created a menu sheet similar to the one below after my hubby needed it for his work to pass out to his coworkers. His version included their company name and the "chef"s" name on it.

They have a monthly cooking class, and this is the soup he did for his coworkers. 

Feel Free to download and print it :)

Enjoy and let me know what you think of the soup !

Polymer Clay

My nieces are visiting from Southern California, and trying to keep these teenagers occupied is hard :)

I had polymer clay on hand, and I also had some molds. They ended up using my dahlia, heart, and key shaped molds that I bought from this etsy shop.

They made some earrings.

I think they turned out super cute.

They also made a heart and a key. 

My goal was to keep them busy, and this craft only occupied them for about an hour. Good enough for me.
 
 

Craft day

Today happened to be a crafting day for me. I have been working on putting together some routing charts for our son, and some of my nieces and nephews wanted some as well. Once I was fine designing them, I printed them and laminated them. 

Once I was done, I put Jacob's chart up in his room door. Hopefully this will help us get into a daily morning and night time routine. 

Later on in the day, I quickly sewed up a small blanket for my nephew. I am not a good sewer. I took home economics back in junior high, and liked it. That's all the sewing experience I have :)

I learn as I go, I google stuff and try to find easy tutorials.

I thought I had cut everything  evenly, but once I started sewing the material wasn't aligned. I blame it on the blue material.  Once I sewed all around, I cut the excess blue material, turned it inside out and finished it up. 

It turned out ok. Hopefully my nephew will be to excited about the dinosaurs that he won't even notice my bad sewing skills. 

A future goal of mine is to become a better seamstress :)

 

 

 

 

Pin-Insprired: Beverage Station Sneak Peak

I love pinterest. It's a spot where all things wonderful come together. I have pinned a lot of pins, but not as much as others, but I think I'm getting there. 

The intention of pinning ideas is so that one day you can make it as well. So, with Father's Day just around the corner, things are getting a little busy around here. 

Our theme this year is Golf with a little Crab Boil. The guys are going golfing in the morning and the women are cooking for them (not much of a difference from a normal day lol). 

It's going to be an outdoor event, and when I came across this idea on pinterest from Lil Luna,  I thought it would be perfect for it. 

I first enlisted my dad for help. His retired and is always looking for the next thing to do. I face timed him up yesterday morning, and showed him the blog with the beverage station, his reaction was "oh piece of cake". I said perfect when you get a chance to do it that would be great, but we do need it for Father's Day. He said fine.

A few hours later he face times me and says look, he turns the Ipad camera around and shows me that he already finished the base and the only thing we need are the buckets.

Holy smokes is my dad fast LOL, today he painted the base white, and tweaked the base a little, that way we wont have to drill into the bucket later.

I asked my niece to take a picture of him with the base.

Isn't he cute! Love him.

My dad loves that we give him projects to do, it keeps him busy. 

Just to the right of the picture, he was painting a tax cab yellow for an upcoming party were doing!

Final picture of the Beverage Station will be up next week!