Golf Party

I had the privilege to throw my Grandpa's surprise 80th birthday party with some wonderful help from family. He loves golf and, he still golfs everyday even though he just turned 80. I say 80 years young, not 80 years old. Boy was he surprised, it was priceless!!

For decorations I made a backdrop for the food table out of 12x12 scrapbook paper and a white tri fold project board I got at Walmart. You just fold the paper accordion style, then fold it in half again. Staple it all together, I used 3 pieces of paper for each big flower and 2 pieces of paper for the smaller ones. I just hot glued them to the board. The ones with 2 flowers together you need a circle in between the flowers to help the glue stick. Then you just need to cut out circles for the center. It is really easy to make just a little time consuming. I used green, black, white and silver color theme. We had 3 different sets of golf clubs around the room too.

Center pieces, my Mom had this great idea. We bought our jars from the Dollar Store and we got the crinkled paper you put in Easter baskets (brown and white) and used that to stuff them. Then we put some golf balls on top with some golf tees. Finish it all off with green and black ribbon and you have some cheap and cute centerpieces. :)

I love Hobby Lobby and they have thicker wrapping paper which is nice to run down the tables for an added decoration and it also helps protect your table cloths. It is nice to just roll everything up and throw it away, it makes for easy clean up!

I made golf term labels for the food table. We had croissant sandwiches so I made one that said "Club Sandwiches". We had the best fruit bowl and it said "Fruit Slice",we had chips so I made "Chip Shots". Water for drinks I made a "Watering hole" tag. Cake table I made a "Caddy Buffet" even though it wasn't candy it was still sweets.

My cousin had a great idea and we had all the great grand kids make him a card so we had a gift and card table.

I had the idea to make a memory jar. We had everyone write down some of their favorite memories they have had with my Grandpa. We just had strips of scrapbook paper for everyone to write one down on. Then he got to take them all home to read later.

One of my cousins made a cute candy poster for him and, her and her boyfriend did a really cute birthday rap for him.

I put a game together with the help of my Grandma that helped us get to know him better. My Grandma came up with 20 questions about him and I put them all in balloons and we made them into 80 and we had all the little kids come up and pop one and I read the question to my Grandpa for him to answer.

I also made a picture slide show for him of his life up to now. I loved watching how much it meant to him. I put it together with music and the music I used for his slide show was.

Abba- take a chance on me (for when him and my grandma were together.)
Alan Jackson- Remember when (for when his kids were little)
Lonestar- let them be little (for when all the grand kids were growing up)
Louise Armstrong- What a wonderful world ( pictures of everyone with him day to day)
Forever Young- (pictures of everyone with him day to day until now)

At the beginning I had one of my cousins read something I wrote about celebrating his birthday.

It all was a great success and I am happy for everyone involved for making it such a great day for him. Enjoy!!

Beads, Beads, Beads

Beads are not just for girls to make bracelets or necklaces. They are great for fine motor skills, counting, color sorting etc.. Today I will share with you what my boys like to do with their beads, which all have great learning skills involved.

1) Sorting the colors of beads into a muffin tin

2) Have them count each color and find out which one has the most once they are done sorting all the colors

3) Their favorite, take any toys or stuff animals and trace them with the beads when you pick the object up when you are all done and you have an outline of which ever toy you used. They think it is pretty cool.

4) Add with them. 5+10= and so on

5) Graph them on paper. Have them roll a dice and whatever number is on the dice they get to put that number of beads on the graph paper.

Get Inspired to start couponing

To be a couponer it really isn't that hard, or time consuming if you know what you are doing and you have a plan before you go into the store. There are so many coupon websites out there where all the wonderful ladies put everything together for you as far as what is the best sale that week and so forth. Find a few that you like and always check them often to find the best deals. I have other posts that I have done on couponing. This is going to just be a short post with pictures of shopping trips I have done in the past. I want you to see the real deals I get when I coupon and how worth it, it really is :) Everyone can do it, trust me! Look under my labels under Coupon 101 to get started.

Great quote to live by

This quote was always in my front room growing up and, I love it! Here is a FREE download for a copy for yourself that I made. I just love it and what it all stands for. Just right click and save as a jpeg. You can get it printed on photo paper and put it in a frame. Let me know if you have trouble downloading it and I will put it in a folder for you to download. I love quotes and would love to hear some of yours so please share and, enjoy!

Kids Summer Journal Craft

Summertime is almost here and at our house we like to document in different ways what fun things we do or some of our favorite memories. Today I have some templates I made for a Summer journal. Kids can document any way they like whether it is drawing pictures, using stickers etc.. Let them be creative and see what they come up with.

What you need is:
Download one of my templates either the girl one or the boy one
5 pieces of white computer paper for the center
1 piece of white card stock to print the cover on
Stapler
Markers, crayons

Just fold and staple the paper inside the journal cover
Let your kid(s) decorate the front how they want
Put their name on the front
Start recording your memories :-)
DOWNLOAD HERE GIRL
DOWNLOAD HERE BOY

Enjoy and have a great day!