Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Last week my best buddy requested a smorgasbord of wonderful Christmas goodies for a party she was throwing for all her teacher friends. I had SO much fun working on this order.  Sometimes I swear to goodness gracious I'm still an 8 year old child who gets giddy over the thought of cartoon-like, colorful Christmas sweetness...

How precious are these Christmas tree and gingerbread men cake pops?!!? LOVE~

And I was LOVING the oreo snowman pops!

No party is complete without a cake (or cupcakes)! ;)

Rice Krispie treats and Santa Claus Hat cake "balls"

Reindeer Party

Today Bailey had a few of her close buddies over for a little reindeer themed Christmas shindig. I had so much fun with the girls today!!! We had lunch, decorated gingerbread houses, made an ornament and played a fun game to wrap things up.

I need to give a GREAT BIG HUMONGOUS shout out, thank you to my sweet mama for making the girls these ADORABLY adorable shirts for the girls to wear. Mom recently got a new embroidery machine and she has been busy sewing ever since! How lucky am I to have such a handy mama!?!?! I love how they're all matching, but each one is has its own little uniqueness too.

We started out the playdate with a lunch of reindeer pb&js, mac n cheese, pretzels, and juice. :)

And everyone knows, if you eat your lunch you get dessert! Today it was reindeer chocolate covered Oreos.

After lunch it was time to start decorating gingerbread houses.

I used this template to make the mini gingerbread houses. These were waaaay easier to make and assemble than I expected. I was thiiiiiisssss close to lazy-ing out and buying the Wilton mini gingerbread house kits and I'm so glad I didn't!!! Store bought gingerbread mix, (yes nana, store bought, as in packaged...not from scratch. does it really matter if you're not eating them??) some royal icing and a good template is all you need to make these cuties!!

My girls LOVED the marshmallow "snow".

A BIG thank you to Ashley (Caroline's older sister) who came over to help me with Olivia. Liv is IN LOVE with Ashley so it really helped to have her there to entertain (and assist) my little one while I entertained the other 6 girls. :)
Livie showing Ashley some love. :)


After the gingerbread houses the girls made a baby Jesus in the manger ornament. The final product...























After the ornament I let the girls run wild for a while. 5 year olds have a good way of finding their own fun so I let them go for it. (so much for a clean/organized playroom after about 10 minutes of free play) ;)

To wrap things up I sat the girls down to the table to play a little game of Jack Frost's Not Lost. SO FUN! I found this FREE download here via How Does She. This game really is a lot of fun and a MUST for all those with little ones!!! I also made some little snowman containers (using almond tins) for the girls to put their candy from the game in.

Before all the mommies came to pick up their girls I gathered them together to snap a few pics. Tonight as I tucked Bailey in I asked her what her favorite part of the party was. She thought for a moment then said, "all of it was my favorite, except the picture taking". lol Oh well...at least she is honest. :) I'll take that into consideration for the next party.

Merry Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!

See you next year!!

Wine and Wrap!!!

Last night I had a few girlfriends over for a Wine and Wrap party. It was such a fun (and productive) time!! We try to schedule a Girls Night Out each month and what better get together for December than a Wrap and Wine. I made a big pot of soup, turned on the Christmas music, the girls brought over their presents and some wrapping paper, we drank some adult beverages, chit chatted and WRAPPED!

I set up a table full of "wrapping treats". I actually got everything last year during the after Christmas clearance sales so all the wrapping treats were basically free. ;)

From scissors to tape, ribbons to bows, everything you needed to wrap up your gifts was neatly organized on a wrapping treats table.
As always, printables from Amanda's Christmas Collection. Find them at Amanda's Parties TO GO!

I wanted to have plenty of tape on hand...didn't want any ladies fighting and tables flipping over the last piece of tape! ;) hehe


I love how fun and PRODUCTIVE this party was! All my girlfriends left with all their gifts wrapped and such a weight lifted off their shoulders.

Merry Christmas and Happy Wrapping!!!!