A Baby Shower + D's Birthday!

So here's how this began...

Back in the Myspace days I was your average stalker.

I was young and bored and spent a lot of time just 

browsing random people's profiles.

(I know I wasn't the only one!)

I had a friend who had a friend that I found interesting.

Her Myspace page was pretty public so I kept up with her posts without her knowing.

(There is absolutely no way to explain this without sounding like a total creep.)

If it makes you feel better, we were all Marine wives in Oceanside and I felt like

I could be good friends with this girl...even though she didn't know I existed...oh jeez...

Anyway, years went on and people moved over to Facebook and I moved on.

A little over a year ago I get a message on FB from this lady! I was like "omg what

does she know?!" In her message she introduced herself and explained that she was marrying

my husband's best friend and moving to 29 Palms soon. Wait...what?!

Andrew and Jacob grew up together and have been best friends since childhood.

We knew he was getting married, and we knew he was getting stationed in 29,

but he's marrying the same person I used to stalk years ago?!

Obviously she had gotten a divorce from the Marine she was married to back in

the day and this small little world led her to Jake.

I had to confess.

I had to tell her that I already know all about her and her life.

It was awkward and I felt so dumb!

Seriously, what are the chances of this happening!!!!

Jeanette, being the amazing woman that she is, thought it was funny and

made me feel less of a creep by understanding. She thought the whole thing

was pretty crazy too. So, just like I suspected, we became pretty good friends!

They've been here a little over a year and are now expecting a baby boy together!

Jake is currently in Afghanistan so I wanted to do something special for Jeanette.

I had the honor of throwing her a diaper party with our small group of friends

to celebrate the upcoming arrival of their baby Sawyer!

Since it was a diaper party, I tried to use diapers every way I could:

 Diaper Banner

Diaper Cake

Poopy Diaper Game (its chocolate!)

A friend helped with the food and we served a sausage and egg dish, homemade

donuts, watermelon and strawberries, and cookie dough dip with Nilla Wafers.

My cupcakes were Funfetti (of course!) with a homemade buttercream frosting.

I served Martinelli's sparkling juices to fancy it up!

In addition to the poopy diaper game, we played a memory game, a quiz about

the mother-to-be, and then I surprised Jen with some Newlywed game-type questions.

Before the party, I contacted Jake on Facebook and asked him a series of questions

related to parenting. He gave me his answers and we had Jen try to guess his answers.

It was a sweet way to include Daddy who has been missing so much.
 

 Overall our brunchy diaper party was a success and Jen now has a good stash ready for Baby!

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 My 2nd party that week was for my son.

My little baby boy turned FOUR!!!

Time flies when you're a parent!

Its amazing and scary at the same time.

Only a few more precious years until my babies are on their own.

We had to do a Ninja Turtle theme for our little guy, no question.

Ninja Turtles are back full force and Davin is obsessed.

I stole a few fun ideas from Pinterest.

I ordered a ton of decorations from birthdaydirect.com.

I ordered their Ninja Turtle edible cake image and had the commissary

make us a plain white cake with a "turtle green" border. This worked out great.

 

I also bought the soda bottle wrappers, which I thought were awesome!

 

We served pizza (duhh), Sprite, Squirt, salad and green jello!

We invited our closest friends and family and had a great time visiting with everyone.
And D got lots of cool new things.

I think Bubby really enjoyed his party this year!