The Calm (or so it seems)

So I promised myself when I started this blog that I would write or at least attempt to write everyday. I really did attempted to though, I promise! This past weekend was so hectic in my house, with our early Mother's Day celebrations with my family and then my finances birthday and Mother's Day celebrations with his family in our house yesterday, I barely got a chance to stop and sit. But complain not, I loved and enjoyed every minute of it.

My fiancé loves to grill and barbecue so he was itching to open the grill, and it was such great weather this weekend we changed our dinner plans to throw an impromptu barbecue together. When you have all your family around and some good hamburgers and hot dogs, and throw in some birthday cake to boot, how could you not have a blast!

This is a little something my sister made for the birthday boy :) 

The little gift box above was made with an empty K-cups box filled with some tissue paper. She mod podged the green paper on to it and then taped the grey stripe onto it. I cut the circle and the font from the Cricut Essentials cartridge, that comes preloaded on the Expression 2. She simply used a paper piercer to make the holes and stuck the blow pops in them...all in all, I think it took her about a half hour to get it done.

That the birthday banner I made for the birthday boy

The penants were cut from the Cricut Sophisticated cartridge, the royal blue penant at 8'' and the light blue at 7''. The font was made from the Birthday Cakes cartridge.

The birthday boy and me!

All in all it was a great weekend!

And I will leave you with a quick frame I personalized for a 1st Communion frame my sister gave to her husband's nephew.

 Thanks for looking!!