Catching up...

On number 55,56,57 and 58. It has been a chaotic weekend because we had the Cupcakes birthday Friday and her birthday party/baptism on Saturday and clean up on Sunday. I'm going to make it into a collage so that I can explain more or less of what went on these past few days.

Went to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. It was awesome, she really enjoyed looking at all the fish. She was so pooped she was out cold when we put her in her car seat for the drive home.

Saturday was her birthday party and Baptism. We got all dressed up but dressed down for the party. Got my Thing Mom shirt since it was a Dr. Seuss theme party.
 

The Cupcake was so tired that she napped for an hour and a half! That never happens so I took advantage and took a nap along with her. When we got up it was so nice outside I took her for a walk on her buggy. I also made my own "super nachos" a lot healthier well not healthier but less grease than the kind you buy at Alberto's. We wrapped up our weekends with lots of giggles and tickles. Nights like last night need to happen more often. She seriously makes me so happy. That smiles makes everything bad in my life not matter anymore. I love her so much it truly is amazing.

35, 36, and 37. Weekend Recap

Such a busy weekend or should I say Friday night and Saturday. Marc and I spent our evening trying to tie bows and hot gluing them to the baptism favors. I did like 45 bows and he did 5, so he really wasn't helping me. We also started doing the rainbow crayons that were to be molded into cat paws. The hardest part of that was taking of the wrappers on the crayons. My nails were hurting after a while. We seriously didn't go to bed til about 2:30am. We were exhausted but we got most of the things done.

Aren't they super cute!!! Oh and the cupcakes godmother made the coloring books, they are great too.

Saturday, the cupcake decided she was going to be ready to play at 5am. So that means there was about only 2 and half hours of sleep that night. Tried the paci...nope. Tried rocking her...nope. She rather jump and climb on top of me. I was a zombie that morning. Marc took her to go see her cousin Barbara and her Grandma Susan and Alice. I didn't go because I had a lot to do at home which I had already said I was doing before they decided to do their meet and greet get together. Marc said that it wasn't a bad visit and that the cupcake was enjoying herself. So at least that was a good thing. In the evening we went to Marc's aunts house to have a late birthday dinner for his dad. We came home and we were all pooped.

Sunday, we went to church and were in better moods because the cupcake slept a little longer so we were able to get in about 7 hours of sleep. After church the cupcake and I went hiking with some friends and pretty much just hung out after. Overall it was a good weekend. Happy Monday!

Oh by the way, I did a guest post on another mommy's blog. Go check it out here!

Party Planning = stress!

The title pretty much explains it all. I am so stressed out with planning cupcakes birthday party next month. She is turning one and I really didn't want to have a party for her, but of course her father has to have something. I didn't want to argue so I pretty much just gave in. The first thing we started with was the list of people we are planning on inviting. Mind you, I was thinking max 60 people but once we started naming people our list grew to 150 people. Say waaaaah!...Yup, you should have seen my face. I told him we couldn't have that many people. It's a kiddie party not some social event. The problem here is that his family is huge...yes 120 people huge. I am not talking about distant relatives because they aren't even included in this list. All the people listed are actually close to him and the cupcake. I guess I just never noticed how many of them they were. So here is where all the stress comes in.

Our budget. I was thinking no more than $400 but now with the amount of people coming we were looking at close to $1000. Yikes! Of course we fought about cutting down the list but it wasn't happening, we still had about 120 people who actually will come to the party. Our original plan was to hire a taco man. We love tacos and so do our family so we thought it would be a lot easier to do that. But it was like $600 for just food. That was bananas! So we were freaking out trying to figure out the menu til my mom gave us a good idea.She suggested fried chicken and we thought perfect. for about 200 pieces its about $150 so we are thinking of getting $200 worth of chicken. A lot of family members offered to bring side dishes and the drinks so we are pretty much set in the food department. This weekend we are off to Downtown L.A. to see what we can snatch for decorations and centerpieces. I am just glad that we most likely going to stay well within our budget. I am still stressing because I haven't gotten the invites made which my goal is to start and finish them next week. And since we are also baptizing her that day, we have these meetings we have to attend with the Deacon at the church we are going to be doing it at. So much to do and so little time and so little money. My job sucks because they don't pay vacation or holidays so I have the smallest check coming my way next week. So paying bills and now a party is really making me want to pull my hair out.

We will manage to make it work like we always do, I just hate having to deal with stress. I can't wait for March since all this bday stuff will be a thing of the past then.

Wine anyone.