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Sunday, February 26, 2012

BIRTHDAY WEEK!!!

OBJECTIVE:  To Successfully complete BIRTHDAY WEEK, with not 1 but 2 birthdays, a mere 3 days apart!


Birthday Number 1

Theme:

PINK, GIRLY...the usual.


What's In The Loot Bag?

* easy clip-on hair flower
* packet of 6 rainbow coloured clip-on hair braids
* little packet of chocolate "mini eggs"

Menu:

* Hotdogs
* Chili
* popcorn, chips, etc
* HEART SHAPED STRAWBERRY CAKE



















a RAINBOW of peppers for the chili!




add the meat...





crazy clip-on rainbow braids courtesy of DOLLARAMA.
Girlie and her cousins loved them



yeah, you can have your basic hotdog with mustard...


OR YOU CAN HAVE A FREAKING CHILI DOG


Step 1:  PLASTIC CHEESE




Step 2:  KID-FRIENDLY BOILED DOG




CHILI GOODNESS



STEP 3:  AH YEAH



The Holiest Of Hotdogs ~ Almost Perfect



NOW you can add mustard!


THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT
(photo's not blurry; you're actually having
a EUPHORIC STROKE)



I love you.  Did I tell you I love you?  OH, I did?
*blush* hee hee!
Well, it's true I do.  At this moment I love you more
than anything else on this whole planet.



make a wish, little girl!




and blow!



Damn.  I make a GOOD CAKE.



BIRTHDAY NUMBER 2

Theme:

Colourful!

What's In The Loot Bag?

* 6 small green plastic soldiers
* world's most annoying tiny slide whistle
* novelty glasses with big nose and moustache
* UNBELIEVABLY FUN WACKY NOVELTY TEETH

The Menu:

* Last minute FRANTIC IDIOT, WHYTHEHELLAMIMAKINGTHESERIGHTNOWIHAVENOTIME chocolate chips muffins for Jack's class

*Pizza ~ Dominos.  The boy will accept NO SUBSTITUTIONS.  This is NON NEGOTIABLE.

* assorted party snacks

* Chocolate cake that looks like a "GIANT WAVE" ~ made by Nana




stupid f*cking muffins.  Why do I do this to myself?!?



oh wait...they look really pretty actually...


Why MUFFINS you ask??  Well, that's because
I ran out of icing sugar and couldn't make FREAKING
CUPCAKES, so I'm tricking the kids into getting some
nutrition thanks to a little SPRINKLES MAGIC.






















ooo Novelty glasses!  So fun!  




wacky glasses AND teeth?!?  EVEN MORE FUN...



my sis hasn't been to the dentist in years...



I HAVE TO GET IN ON THIS ACTION






good hair in this pic...



CLASSIC.  WE LAUGHED UNTIL WE PEED



But this isn't about ME...







get ready!




MAKE A WISH CAPTAIN SNUGGINGTON!




THREE CHEERS FOR JACK!



all done :( 


What kind of fun birthday things have you done for your kids???  For YOURSELF???  How many cocktails did it take to GET YOU THROUGH?

Tell me all about it!

20 comments:

  1. I worked on my birthday, and I'm complaining about it as is my custom. But: lots of people from various departments came and threw confetti on me and helped me eat a big ol cake!

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    1. well that's not so bad! Actually, fate took the pressure off, because had you been at home, you might have felt obliged to have something fabulous happen.

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  2. In dutch tradition (or just my mother in law's) Happy Birthday to you for your children :-) Looks like the kids had lots of fun :-)

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    1. thanks Michelle, they did have lots of fun--that was, after the massive meltdown when we were putting Jack's marble race game together and Ella wouldn't stop trying to play with it.

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  3. i love that second picture of you with the good hair and bad teeth. i guess a girl can't be completely perfect.
    and for the record, i thought at the beginning of this that it was your birthday and you were having 2 celebrations, but i was thrown off by the fake hair braids. i mean, i love silly hair things as much as the next girl, but i'm not a fan of actually receiving them as gifts.
    you're a good mama, karen. now stop having sex only once a year in may so that there won't be any more kids sharing the same birthday week in your family.

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    1. LOL Sherilin! I'm so pleased you noticed that it appears I only want to get it on in May. You are so funny. Yeah, there'll be no rainbow hair braids for my birthday.

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    2. is there a canadian mating season? like with animals who get twitterpated in the spring and can't keep their ugly bits to themselves?

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    3. yeah, it's probably SPRING FEVER, because at least by FREAKING MAY it's at last pretty much guaranteed that there'll be no more snow. Seriously. The year I turned 31 there was a blizzard on my bday (April). Luckily we were all in the Dominican.

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  4. Awesome. My sister in law and I just bonded over the excellent pics of you and your sister in those teeth... we laughed until we peed too. Perhaps we were all separated at birth. I totally need a wave cake too!!! Sarah xxx

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    1. Sarah, I'm so glad you enjoyed the teeth photos as much as we did. I felt my whole body light up as soon as I saw them.
      Would you have a chocolate wave cake or vanilla?

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  5. Two birthday parties less than a month apart and both a success! You are an awesome momma!

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  6. or still an avid fan of THE PARTY, Vesta! Thanks :)

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  7. Oh you are SUCH a good mummy, Karen! I hate kid's birthday parties, yes I do, but I am trapped and have to do 3 a year. Remind me again why I had 3 kids?
    My favourite party experience was when my son was 4 and having a little pirate themed party at home. I had laboriously drawn a cartoon pirate (badly, art isn't my strong suit) the night before, ready for a game of pin the parrot on the pirate. Clever, no? My eldest daughter (6 at the time) scribbled over it, and drew what can only be described as a penis on it. Not exactly an anatomically correct meat-n-two-veg, but we got the gist.
    I blame the parents...
    Those teeth look quite British, I'm impressed! (Now you know why I never smile on my blog photos...) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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    1. ah but Curtise, you should know that I have YET to let any kids from school come to these parties. So, basically it's just family members with cocktails and my nieces.

      Love your pirate idea! And the penis, and your joke about teeth!

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  8. OK, so I need to lay off the Clorox fumes. I could have sworn I was over here and commented and clearly I didn't. Jebus I need to some sleep and get rid of my pukers....

    Anyway, I love the teeth, that was giving me fits of laughter. And you rock as a mom. All that work, all those cakes and cupcakes/muffins. Gawd I'm exhausted just looking at all your hard work.

    I usually hit the Walmart frozen cakes and then go add those hard sugar words that spell out Happy Birthday. My kids would actually crap and feel cheated if they saw what you did.

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    1. oooo Lizbeth...frozen ICE CREAM cakes??? You realise if this is so, YOU are the one who wins!!! I LURV ice cream cakes.

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  9. Hopefully the birthday merriment will carry over into the rest of the year.

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    1. yeah, Laoch, it hasn't. But, it was a lovely sentiment just the same.

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