Baby Shower Cheesecake Style!

Last night Kim and I hosted a baby shower for a friend of ours. She's having a baby boy and is due in just 2 weeks! She loves cheesecake so Kim and I decided to try and do all cheesecake, but with a twist. Only one of our homemade cheesecakes was baked in the traditional spring-form pan.

That one was from Annie's Eats: Caramel Apple Cheesecake Pie~

From her blog we also made Dulce de Leche Cheesecake bars~

Over at the Picky Palate we made Peanut Butter Cookie Crusted Jelly Swirled Cheesecake bites~

We also had Cheesecake brownies~

and Chocolate Cheesecake Squares~

We balanced out all of that cheesecake with some fruit~

For some of our decor we use wheat grass in short glass containers, tied with ribbon and cute little woodland animals~


We started out the shower by giving each of the guests a little coloring project! We made the mom-to-be a "Baby's first counting book". Each guest was given a page with a number in the corner and asked to draw a picture with that number of items on the page. This is a great way to let the mom to be have a fun gift, but it also is a keepsake that shows who all came to the baby shower! We got some really cute pictures!! The pages will get laminated and bound, then given to the mom and baby. Here are some of the guest working on their pages:

Here are a few of the pages:

All in all it turned out well! She got lots of super cute little boy stuff and we ate some yummy food!

Christmas Craft: Marble Magnets

The first time I made marble magnets was at least 2 years ago. The entire concept of personalizing magnets with your own pictures and paper was a great idea to me. We even did it at a Super Saturday for HFPE. Over the last 2 years I've randomly made more and then it dwindled away. Then last week I decided to make them again after reading in a few different places that you can use diamond glaze to adhere the paper to the marble! Yet another use for a great product. Now this doesn't diminish my love for modge podge it still can't be beat for many, many applications!

So, go out to your Dollartree and buy yourself some glass marble accents. The dollartree is seriously the best place to find them. They might to be perfectly clear or round, but a $1 for about 25-you can't beat a price like that!

Print some pictures or grab your favorite scrapbook paper and cut out to the size you need (they're ususally 1 1/8 inches or so)

Put a small amount (smaller than a dime) of diamond glaze on the back of the marble.

Place your picture on and press evenly until the diamond glaze has evenly coated the picture and marble.

Let it dry and glue on a magnet. I prefer usuing E6000 to glue my magnets on and I buy my rare earth magnets here: (http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.1105) they have free shipping, but it does take a couple of weeks to get to you.

I think they are much clearer and easier to make than with the Modge Podge. It's a fun way to have seasonal magnets or family pictures that have a purpose. It's also an easy homemade gift!

I also wanted to add a picture of the finish Baby's ABC book we made at the baby shower a couple of weeks ago. After all of the letters were finished, I laminated the pages and had it bound at Staples:

I also finished up our family birthday calendar. Now I need to get them all mailed out!


I hope everyone has a great Veteran's Day and weekend! We're headed on a little family trip for a baptism-Go Bridget!! I'm super excited to see family, get family pictures taken, go the temple, go to the zoo, do some shopping and play some games!!

Baby Shower...

So last night I hosted the baby shower for Amy. It was fun but man, I am wiped out today. I've been sick so I'm sure that's way but I seriously feel like I could sleep all day. To bad Bud and Emma won't let me do that. So, we had a flower theme for the shower and I realized the only pictures that I took were of the food I made. The food was fun, but I really should have at least gotten a snapshot of the Mommy and Baby. Well, Here's the food. The theme was flowers so I made a sugar cookie bouquet.
And a fruit kabob bouquet.


I think all in all it turned out pretty well. Now I just need to clean-up and catch up on some sleep!!

I've got chills... they're multiplying

Ok, well not really but seriously I hate being sick and really the timing could not be worse. Saturday night we too the kids to Denny's for dinner (kids eat free!!). So either I ate the wrong thing or I was getting sick anyway. Since early Sunday morning I've been battling the runs. Sunday I also ran a fever and was achy with chills. Augh!!! Tonight I'm having a baby shower at my house so I've been slowly trying to clean my house and prepare food. double augh!!! It's a small shower there will be 10 people at the most, but I still want everything to look nice and be fun.

This weekend we're suppose to head down to LA and go to the temple. We also really need to go to Costco and N8 needs to go to REI and look for new hiking boots for the 50-miler. So, I better be feeling better since we waited until the last weekend of the month to do our temple trip.

Here's to feeling better!!