The Stache Birthday Bash

Sooo back to the blogging world..haha...like I have been blogging for years or something. Wow, alot has happened in the last month or so, including our Little Mans First birthday.  The Mustache party was a success, and I think Vince was very happy to get his wife back, after spending countless hours chocolate making, mustache stamping, stache cutting, tissue pom creating and photo taking! I do have to say though that I enjoyed every minute of it...I look at like it was an outlet for me...kinda like therapy.  I was able to put my creative juices to work since clearly a classroom full of 32 students is not happening for me right now (I keep telling myself someday Lindsay it will happen : ) So I used those juices to put together Brode's first birthday party!!! The mustaches were a hit and made for GREAT pictures...what is even funnier though is that Vince's first question after the very last guest left "So can I go shave now??" ahah....I think he was over the lip jacket he had been sporting for that last month!!! He was a good sport though and not gonna lie...I went to say hi to him one night while he was working a job at BV and he was in uniform...and well I will just stop there...lets just say...I LIKED it and thought it was fitting : )...hehe. So now a sense of calmness has come over our busy home again...time to sit back and take a breath and enjoy this new year we are entering in Brode's life.  He is doing SO much these days...and is continuously cracking me up!! I am obsessed with being his mom (most days...Ha...I think every mom would agree) He thinks he is the worlds best crawler and will "crawl" away from you quick when you chase him...he uses everything as if it were a phone and is trying SO hard to say HI....he just started pointing the other day and is getting braver and braver on everything he pulls up on! We watch 10 minutes of Baby Einstein before bed every night complete with a bowl of oatmeal...(yes that is the only way I can get 1/3 cup of milk or more down him...I know...NEVER thought I would have a child who does not care for the taste of milk...well at least for now) and then its off to bed with what we call "smooches" for everyone...brother gets the best ones ; ) He lights up our life and we are just enjoying every moment with him before our family gets even bigger!!! Yes...as you all have probably heard we will be expecting baby number 2 Sep. 1st.  We are super excited and will find out this Wednesday if it's a boy or a girl...I keep hearing it's the year for girls...we shall see : ) Not a dull moment in our house, especially with a little one on the verge of walking.....!!!!! So enough of us and here are some Stache pics to leave you with...enjoy!

1st Birthday COUNTDOWN!

So the countdown is officially on!!!! I cannot believe that my Little Man will be the big ONE a week from Monday!! Which means that his Mr. Man party is two weeks away!!!! I cannot believe how much a tiny person can change in their first year of life...yet somehow, everyyy now and then, I catch glimpses of the teeny tiny newborn baby face that we brought home from the hospital : ) Just the other day Brode had fallen asleep on the car ride home and when I went to get him out of his seat I stop for a minute and just stared at him.  I could see IT...the same sleepy face with full lips that he had when we brought him home.  It was a crazy moment, a moment that I took to myself for a second as his mommy and remembered back to that lifechanging very Exciting day! Now 12 months later he is becoming his own person with personality like no other and a laugh and smile just like his daddys (which by the way is ALL he wants to say lately...Dada Dada) We are getting very excited to celebrated his first birthday!!! I feel like everytime I go to lay down for the night my mind races with a million things to do/go get/make...ideas ideas!!! I know I have to stop somewhere and know that everything will come together and the most important thing is celebrating the Little Man our Mr. Broderick has become in this last year!!! As one Little Man snoozes soundly in his crib, the ORIGINAL Mr. Man is fast asleep on the couch...Lip Jacket and all (I gotta hand it to Vince, he has successfully grown a very pristine mustache in the event of Brode's B-day) I sit here cutting and gluing and mustache molding away excited to see everything finished and to just sit back and celebrate one VERY special Little Man : )

Here is Broderick's 1st Birthday Invitation created by jkhenrie.blogspot.com. She did a fantastic job and it was exactly what I had wanted!!!

NapArtist

So....annoying but I had to create a new blog.  For whatever reason I could not log into my other one and I just got frustrated and gave up.  So not only did I create a new one, but also a new name! It is very fitting for all the time I am spending lately during Brode's naps, creating.  With a first birthday quickly approaching I am trying to utilize all the time I possibly can to get all things made and finished before the big day so that I can sit back and RELAX!! They only turn one once : )  I have been planning this first birthday in my mind for what seems like forever now.  We decided on a fitting theme for our Little Man as we like to call him.  We are throwing a Mr. Man Mustache party!!!! Ties, Mustaches, everything Mr. Man! I feel like everything looks great in my mind idea wise, but the challenge is now creating it all and viewing the final product/presentation.  i am such a perfectionist when it comes to these...I drive myself nuts...and my sweet Hubby even MORE! But we are excited!!! (even Vince is growing a mustache at the moment...ahahah) So as Brode is taking what is going on a 3 hour nap now on this raining afternoon...and I sit here creating a makeshift "mustache" rubber stamp for the invites, and the NapArtist came to be!!!! I cannot help but laugh at myself at how this rubber stamp came about.  I looked online for a mustache stamp and was not happy with what I found...so I set my mind to thinking of how to create one, from things I have at home!!! I know I needed something sorta rubber material so I found a jar opener we had that was of a rubber material. I traced the stache and so the mustache stamp was born. And hey I saved myself like 10 bucks! Ill post a pic later!

Until next time, Miss Mustachio