party. party. wedding. anniversary.

This week was a week of mayhem and absolute craziness. I'm happy to say that each of our events went off without a hitch, and extremely relieved the week is over. Here are a few highlights:

Carter's kindergarten Christmas Party.  I made snowman pretzel sticks  which were a huge hit with the kids.  I also make each kid in Carter's class a fleece scarf.  Red and white for the girls, and blue for the boys. 

The scarves were ridiculously simple to make, and were a huge hit with the kids.  One of Carter's friends liked his scarf so much that when he left it at home Friday morning, he made is mom go back and get it.  And, Carter's teacher told me she took one of the girl scarves home for her 12 year old daughter and her daughter built an outfit around the scarf. 

Grace modeling the girl scarf. 

The boy scarves. 

Carter and his friend playing a party game. 

In preparation for Grace's party, I was all scarved out, so we went with gloves and hot chocolate for party gifts.  The gloves were a big hit with the second graders.  Thank you to my sister Mindy for this great and easy idea!

Grace, ready to party. 

I'm the room mom for Grace's class, so I was in charge of party planning.  For the party craft, Grace and I came up with a waterless snow globe with a picture of each child in her class.  This was a huge hit with the kids and adults at the party.  The globes easy to make and the kids loved adding hats, scarves, and other decorations to their globes. 

The entire party was excellent, the food was abundant and festive, the games were enjoyed by all and this room mom was relieved that everyone was happy and entertained.

Our week ended with a very special event.  Grace was a flower girl in her first grade teacher's wedding. 

Our little angels during the ceremony.  I made the flower girl headbands and was happy that you could see them sparkling under the lights in the church. 

We'd been looking forward to the wedding for an entire year so you cannot imagine how excited Grace was that the wedding day was finally here. 

The ring bearer was a little shy about having his picture taken.

The wedding and reception were amazing and beautiful, and Grace was wonderful as a flower girl.  On the way to the church, she told Ray and me that she was very nervous and a little scared but she knew in her heart that everything was going to be just fine.  My daughter is so wise. 

I used fabric from the quilt to finish the gift wrapping. 

The wedding gift was a quilt I finished in all of my "free time" this week.  It deserves its own blog post. 

Ray and Carter after the ceremony.

Carter was a real trooper with all of the wedding hoopla. He did a great job at the rehearsal, ceremony and reception.

Since we were all dressed up for the wedding. I thought it would be an excellent opportunity for a family picture. But the picture above is the only picture we even attempted to take at the reception. Nice, eh? 

Ray and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary in the blur that was this week.  We're looking forward to an actual night out very soon. 

My totals for the week:
48 gift winter party gift bags
24 scarves
prep work for 24 personalized snow globes
24 pretzel stick snowmen
2 flower girl headbands
and
one amazingly beautiful wedding quilt

The inside of my house looks like a Hobby Lobby exploded. 
I'm looking forward to a week that doesn't include hot glue, icing, cutting, sewing, or crafting of any kind.