A 90th Birthday Celebration

 

A few weekends ago, we celebrated Christopher's grandmother's 90th birthday. She is such a sweet lady! She was a Wave in the Navy during WWII, where she met Christopher's grandfather. We love hanging out with her. One of our favorite activites is to go over to Grandmom's house and have pizza, beer and cards night. Of course we had to go big for her birthday, as 90 is kinda a big deal and well this lady is definitely a big deal!

 

We had the party at the clubhouse in her neighborhood. We did an openhouse so people could come and go when they wanted. She invited over 100 people and there were definitely that many people that came! I told you she's a big deal! 

 

I found a similar invitation online, and thought a Ball Mason Jar theme would be perfect. Since Miss Betty is from Charleston, I wanted to encompass a Southern garden into the theme even if it is the dead of winter. The invitations were designed by the uber talented Nikki Hodum. Check out her adorable blog, The Fashionable Wife. She also has an Etsy shop for all your invitation/stationery/grapic design needs.

 

Here are some highlights from the party:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a wonderful party. She is very loved!

Oh How I Love a Theme Party!

Y'all I am so late on this post it's not even funny. Today is February 1st and I'm posting on Christmas. But I loved this so much I didn't want to not post on it. So, let's turn the clock back and go back to December. My friend Ashley (be sure to check out her blog At Witz Inn) had a girls' Christmas movie night at her apartment building. She and her hubby live in this very posh building downtown that has a theatre room. Not only was it girls' Christmas movie night, but it was combined with a cookie swap.

Lasagna and Caesar salad dinner made by our hostess

It's my fault Ashley loves Lambrusco now. :)
How cute are the Mason jars?

Yep, that's right. She had movie candy on all our chairs.

We watched "It's a Wonderful Life," which has to be one of the greatest Christmas movie of all time.
I was excited to introduce it to a few friends who'd never seen it.

All the yummy cookies!

 See? Wasn't that totally worth going back in time? Adorable little get together! Thanks, Ashley for a great time!

Autumnal Birthday Bash

Let me start this post with a little background story. As y'all all know by now, I love theme parties. You can find some prior posts on them here, here and here. I come by this naturally. My mom can rock a theme party. I always had elaborate birthday parties where everything went with the theme. These were the days before Pinterest, y'all. She of course got this from her mother, "Mawgie." She told me a story where Mawgie traced and colored individual paper sacks for goodie bags for one of my mom's childhood birthday parties.
Well, let me tell you my friends Samantha and her mom Sheila can throw one heck of a party, too. A few weeks ago we went to a party at their house to celebrate Samantha and her hubbt Neil's 30th birthday and mama Sheila's 60th. It was a blast. Lots of details, great food and an awesome band. I'll let the pics do the rest of the talking.

I would never have thought to use a changing table as a bar.
So clever!

Of course there had to be a spot set up where the guys could watch the college games.
Sam went to MSU, her hubby went to Ole Miss.

This is where the guys were cooking all the meat.

AMAZING cake made by our sweet friend Kayce's (remember from here at the tailgate?) mom.

I thought the unlisted napkins were clever.

Taco bar

Great band

Fried bologna Do yourself a favor and go try some right now.

The fabulous Sheila

The fabulous Samantha

From left to right;
me, Christopher, Samantha, her hubby Neil, Matt and Kayce

You know it was a fun party when your hair ends up like this.
 

Amazing party and great friends. Did I mention Sheila's signature cocktail was an apple cider with tequila and rum in it? Yeah...

The ladies also run a very cute boutique. Go and check them out on Facebook. The Shop of S & J. Sam is also a very talented interior designer, if you ever need someone she's your girl.

A Seuss Inspired Baby Shower

My sweet friend Lauren had twins last summer. I'm just now getting around to posting on this. Oops! Her sister Rachel and I decided to throw her a shower after she found out she was having twins. We had a little inspiration from Pinterest. :) There was just too many pictures to include on my Pinterest post.



The beautiful mom-to-be.

Lauren, Rachel and me

The twins today: Roman Silas (she did find a name!) and Abel James

PRECIOUS!!!