So on November 16th my sweet cousin Alisha came to live with us. She is so wonderful to have around. I have VERY MUCH enjoyed her stay and will be sad when she leaves in 2 more weeks on December 13th. I love having a girl around the house to talk to during the day, she has been great help with Liam(changing diapers and putting him down for a nap). AND NO...she does this on her own....I don't have to ask her!!! She has helped me make dinners, she has helped me clean the house, the dishes, she has helped grocery shop and we have even had a day of fun shopping for ourselves with my mother watching liam one day. She has babysat our boys too. I mean, really....can it get any better than this??
Well, on November 26th was her 16th birthday. We had the honor of hosting her sleepover birthday party here at our house. I was so excited that I set to work thinking of invitations and cake ideas, and birthday party ideas. I did get this idea off of the internet, but I did create them myself and I loved how they turned out. To bad boys don't like frills and fun invitations:).
Of course then I was super excited about the cake. I thought some sort of peacock feathers would look really cool and some ribbon to match from the invitations. I knew two of her favorite colors were brown and teal and I wanted the cake to have those colors to all extremes. I even was about 95% sure I could make it myself, but then I thought maybe Danielle from Five Loaves would do a great job too(if she didn't mind me being so picky and telling her exaclty how I wanted the cake to look). She didn't seem to mind, so I let Danielle make the cake and she did a great job and my "vision" was mastered.
Top of cake:)
Side of cake with peacock feathers, and the ribbon:). I loved it. Oh and to top it off...I asked danielle to make it a chocolate cake with two layers and the frosting in between the layers I wanted teal. Alisha loved the inside of the cake(I had told her there was a surprise inside:))
Alisha picked out the paper supplies and I thought it turned out really cute. She didn't want many decorations so we didn't go all out on that.
Happy 16th Birthday Alisha!! We love you and feel blessed and honored that you chose to stay with us for the month you are here in the states.
The girls she had over for her birthday party. They also went to lafayette to go ice skating and it sounds like they had fun!!!
One of the best parts about this whole thing was the fact that I could sit upstairs and listen to the giggles of all these girls in the basement. Its something I will most likely never hear again(since I have all boys) and it really was music to my ears.
Nick hung the lights on the loft railing. This is pretty much all he did this year inside the house since I had alisha's help. You will notice lights also on the banister going up the stairs.
Alisha and I put lights above the cabinets and then we put bows on my kitchen cupboards as well. I want to invest in some red bows because this gold doesn't show very well. (this ribbon is left over from our house in TN where I had dark cherry cabinets and the gold went well with those).
This is the boys loft area. They have their own tree this year(our "old" tree...really its only 2 years old) but they think its pretty cool to have a tree up on the loft.
Nick hung all these lights on the house. He was a trooper and he did a great job. Thanks hon for your hard work. He did tell me "its a good thing I love you" as he was hanging them:).
