Crew's 5th Spiderman Birthday Party

EVERYONE KNOWS I LOVE A GOOD PARTY, AND THIS YEAR FOR CREW IT WAS SPIDERMAN!
I spent the last year preparing for the big day a little at a time seeing as how I am so busy.
 I spray painted buildings, put together favors and made a lot of decorations as well as doing a lot of Shopping here and there. The party was a success and all the kids had a blast. First I will show you the invite. I love doing my own invites it makes it so much more personal. feel free to click on any picture to enlarge. Here is what we came up with for Crew

we spent the morning getting ready and decorating, It took us about 3 hours to set up.

I Loved his cake. Done by Broken cake creations.

Here is a group shot to start with. Since I am a photographer I always have to get lots of group and individual pictures. As the kids came in they each got their individual pictures taken in their costumes or whatever they came in.

Than we did our first game which was a long obstacle course we set up in our churches gym. Each child was timed on how fast they completed the course, each one tried so hard to beat the others time. We started with jump rope than bean bag through, then they had to jump over small building,throw a basketball in the net, climb into our spider lab with hanging spiders and find therir name on a tag with a spiderman sticker. Next, they climbed through a tunnel, webbed a bad guy with silly string, threw 3 velcro balls to get points and ended with a frisbee toss.

after games we had cake and ice-cream (everyones favorite part.) I bought each child a spiderman plate from the dollar store. Found cite little round spiderman water bottles and bought some cute straws to go in them.

than we had  a fun fight in the arena game. I bought a bunch of shields, swords and mallets from the dollar store that were spiderman. We put two at a time in the ring. They had to fight each other to see who got the most hits. The other kids cheered them on.

next was presents:

we ended with some group photos, handed out their party favors which were mason jars filled with spider man stuff. I glued a spider man to the top and spray painted the lids blue. Handed out candy from the bowls such as spiderman ring pops, spider man bubble gum packs, spider man silly bands and more.The kids said " wow its like it's our birthday we are going home with so much stuff" they were super excited.

Crew had a great 5th birthday party.

Painted my doorknobs

So excited, I have always hated my cheap and cheesy gold door knobs so my project yesterday was to paint them. I love them! It was so easy. I used rustoleum Rustic oil rubbed spray with primer. Removed all knobs, sprayed, let dry and wala I have a new looking house!!!

Happy Valentine's Day from the Christiansens

We had a fantastic valentines day. Scott and I celebrated yesterday because we had too much going on today. Here are a few of the things I did for him. He woke up to breakfast and a little something for him to bring to work for him and the guys.( A bunch of muffins), than he found the we were "mint to be together" in his truck full of mints. and than of course some chocolates and an itunes card.

 My kids got a little something too.

crew

Girls

Than the girls had baskets for the boys they like and call their Valentine's This was one thing in the basket along with the ipod Valentine. They also handed the ipod valentine to their friends.

here is a close-up- you can right click save as if you want to ever use it. It took me a while so others may enjoy it.

than of course there was their Valentine breakfast!! Heart pancakes, strawberry milk and lots of Love!!

the beautiful flowers are from my husband.

all the gifts

a little something for you to laugh at. my little Crew bug

Last weeks organizational projects!

I am so sick of snow that I started spring cleaning and organizing early. here is what I did for last weeks projects.
First I made a purse emergency kit out of a dollar store hot pad. I just sewed in snack bags and sewed on a ribbon on both sides to tie it shut.

Than I made a little emergency car kit for the van in case we break down somewhere and I need a few things for the kids. 

Next I organized my coat closet. We always put our 72 hour bags in that closet and it is always a mess. In order to avoid the clutter I decided to pile them up and use a bungee cord to keep them all snug. We can just grab and go in an emergency.                                                         

Lastly, I am so sick of always putting away everyone's laundry so I made everyone baskets. I just put the laundry in their baskets and they are responsible to come get it and put it all away.I am not a slave people!!!