The Minion Party Prep

Okay, well she turned 5 almost a month ago but hey I'm getting there. (She's lucky I even let her turn 5. I think I might have been happy for her to stay 4 forever.) So to catch up - here's a recap of her party.

This year she was a bit Minion crazy and everyone knows a theme makes party planning easier, erm I mean more involved, so we ran with it.

 The little love posters actually came with the Valentines we'd bought this year. Each balloon was tied to a cake pop that we sent home as favors. Oh my gosh. HATED making cake pops but did learn something; my husband is in love with cake pops. He'd never had one before and now often asked when I making them again. Silly man. I think I added too much oil to my melted chocolate and they would not set. The glitter sugar just kept falling off with globs of chocolate. Thankfully these do not actually have to look pretty to taste good.

 Cupcakes that looked fabulous but tasted like yuck. Box cake mix and by altering the strawberry frosting from last year without actually figuring out a way to compensate for the lack of strawberry syrup first left the taste a bit lacking. Thankfully 5 year olds aren't picky. They tasted like sugar and were thus devoured.

 My minion 5! Honestly I no idea what to do with it now that the celebrations are over. It's kinda a bit much to keep around as random decor.

 The waters! Loved these mini squirt waters. I learned my lesson from last year. These are un-spillable! I hate that the one label I cut too small was in the front row for pictures... I'm sure this bothers only me.

 PX41 Serum (grape juice) which turns the minions into purple rage monsters and the Antidote (lemonade) to change them back. The plasma ball was Mark's last minute addition. He thought it would make the kitchen more like Dr. Nefario's lab. (I was just excited he wanted to contribute to party prep!!) Apparently I didn't get a good picture of my minion cups. Aren't the cute?? I just printed minion goggles (and after a small war with my silhouette cameo) had a machine cut them out for me.

Coloring, tattoo and hat station. A party isn't a party without a bowl of m&ms somewhere.

Birthday girl had a fabulous time! Hopefully I'll get a sec to come back and write about the actual party in a few days. :D

Poor Gabriel, I may have reached my "pinterest" party threshold and might be straight back to a backyard bbq for his birthday in July.

project updates

Super quick update just to let you know what happened to my early year momentum.

365:2015

It's still happening, though almost all the photos are phone pics now. They're uploading to my cloud and trapped on my phone simultaneously. I can't get to them to actually edit because my computer is out of hard drive space. Like completely. Totally. I just tried to take a screen shot to show you my hard drive capacity and current use. It would not let me because I don't even have enough space for that photo. I deleted a few pictures but virtual memory consumed every tiny megabyte I freed.

Project 52

Gabriel broke my virtually indestructible SD card so I don't have a card for my camera. I'm in contact with Samsung. I've mailed them back the bent card and they're in the process of getting me a replacement. Note: do not leave your sd card in the reader, in the usb slot in your computer, WHILST your computer is resting on the arm of the sofa. Yeaaaah. He pushed the computer off the sofa and destroyed both the card and the card reader. My super amazing 64gb Samsung Pro card! *sob sob*

Now I'm off to bake some banana bread with my little while the littlest is still asleep!  (also I'm hoping a restart will give me enough memory to open more than a web browser.)

Lactation Cookies

A couple of my friends have had babies recently. Adorable babies. So what to do? Cookie time! I lived off these lactation cookies in the weeks after Gabriel was born. Thankfully my mother can bake! In hindsight the large glasses of milk I downed with these cookies were wreaking havoc with my baby boy's dairy intolerant belly.... if only I knew then what I know now.

After we collected Jessica from school we got straight to work. 

Baking cookies with a toddler is not an easy task. To quote Jessica, "Gabriel shouldn't be baking. He's too little." 

 

One extremely messy kitchen later we have cookies! Now to box them up and deliver them to the new mommies. Hopefully they enjoy them as much as I did. Jessica thinks they should be dinner.

If you want to print this as a recipe card just right click, save as, resize to your preference and print. :) ps. You don't have to be lactating to enjoy these cookies! They're just packed with good for you yummies.