Our Little Monster just turned ONE

Hard to believe but my not so little baby is now one!  We had lots of fun on his birthday and Liam enjoyed all the attention and commotion.  Since so many people were up here I tried to have a little monster theme around his birthday  (inspired by pinterest).  It seemed fitting since Liam has a hobby of roaring at everything, and he thinks its so funny.  I'm always trying to find new projects to occupy myself with, so I really enjoyed making the stuff.  I first made Liam this monster onesie.  I need to get away from all the onesie projects, I'm getting an obsession, and its getting to be so it wont be worth it as Liam isn't going to be able to fit into onesies for much longer.  So here is Liam in his monster outfit.  I was quite pleased, he looked really cute.  I was going to be really ambitious and attempt a fondant cake, but everything was so crazy that it never happened.  My one other project for his birthday was to make these monster stuffies for all the kids.  I had them in a little tote that said "Adopt a Monster" I wasn't sure how it was going to go over but all the kids seemed to like it.  I'm sad I forgot to take a picture of all of them with their monsters together, but here is the one I made for Liam.

All the kids had fun and Liam especially enjoyed having cake for a couple of days.  Here are a few more pictures from his birthday.  He was stained blue for the rest of the day.


                                                                                                         













After Liam's birthday Jeff and I got to go to his work  Christmas  Christmas/Valentines party.  It was quite the event.  It was up at Thanksgiving Point in their ballroom.  They did a 1930's casino theme, so we had a lot of fun dressing up.  Plus it was definitely our longest  date since Liam has been born.  Probably our first real date since Liam.  We have been to a movie I guess but usually it was just rushing to the theatre and then home again.  Anyway it was so much fun.  They had the Utah swing band play, and they had given us dance lessons the preceding week.  When we got there they gave each person a chip  worth $500 and then had a bunch of games like blackjack, roulette, craps...(Jeff had to tell me what they all were).  So I learned how to play blackjack right there.  All the other games usually had too big of a crowd around them so we mainly did blackjack.  Then at the end of the night every $100 you had bought a raffle ticket for prizes.  They did a drawing for a ton of stuff like paid days off, ski passes, spa passes, golf, 5 big tvs, a wii u, ipad mini, just to name a few, but of course we didn't win anything.  One day I might actually win at something.  I had a professor at BYU say whenever you're in a drawing to fold your paper in half so we did that with all our tickets, but it failed.  A lot of other people did it too, I guess we all had the same professor.  Here are some pictures from our extraveganza.  So it was an exciting weekend, hopefully I'll post some of the projects I have been doing next time I post.  Here some extra pictures of Liam.