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Remember when I did a review and giveaway for Hello Flo? Well, go check out their site now because they have a hilarious video on teenage girls getting their period for the first time.

 Seriously, I was dying when I watched it. First of all the "red badge of courage" come on, I cracking up and when she is sitting in her bed twirling the tampons I couldn't handle it. Well, done! This video is really funny and takes the crazy seriousness and awkwardness out of getting your period for the first time.
I must say I think the idea of a young girl getting a period package each month is cool. It makes them feel like it is something special for them and when you are still in that awkward stage of life who wouldn't love a little surprise each month to make it a little better. Check out Hello Flo's options now!


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Today was Ace's 2nd to last class of his gymnastics summer session so they handed out gold medals to all the kids in his class. It was so cute. These pictures are from my phone and blurry but my friend got better ones so whenever I get a copy of those I will post but his face in the first one was too cute not to post.
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July 31, 2013 2 comments
First I want to congratulate Christel for winning the Skinny Wrap Pack. Go check out Modern Camelot to see who won The Anchor & Bows gift card too!

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Ace has this saying when he wants to get all snuggly with blankets. He will say "Get gushy, Mommy" and we get all snuggled up with a blanket and he gets this cute smile on his face and wiggles around. It is so cute. We have no clue where this came from but its stuck. Anyway more on that later...

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I got these adorable shoes from Yochi and when I picked them out I just thought they were black skull shoes and they would be perfect for Halloween. Little did I know they were squeaky shoes. They are hilarious. Ace runs around in them and makes them squeak and what does he call them? GUSHY SHOES! Ha! I have no clue how he made the connection to the word gushy with the shoes but it is so funny that he calls them that. They are super soft and comfy so that might be it but either way he loves these shoes.

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Overall these shoes are the perfect shoe for toddlers. I actually thought they would be perfect for Disney since its so crowded and if he walks off or something we will just listen for that little nugget to find him.

Does your little one have a pair of shoes or accessory they just love and have to wear?


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July 30, 2013 1 comments
I know, I know, I am so late on posting Ace's Birthday Party details but things have been quite crazy around here.
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Ace's Pirate outfit from Zulily
First of all we did a Jake and the Neverland Pirates theme. Ace loves Cubby on Jake so we knew it was the perfect theme.
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Ace's cake done by the Amazing Barbara
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Cake table before the cake arrived
I hunted down every Jake party idea on Pinterest and went to work. We had some cute party games that were perfect for a wide range of ages. We had toddlers to 12 year olds so it worked out really well.
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A couple days before my friend Erin and I went to town on making all the goodie bags, she was a lifesaver when it came to cute ideas on how to cut them and make them look like loot bags. We just used brown paper bags and pirate stickers and frayed the edges for the toddler's bags and did zig zag cuts on the bags for the bigger kids.

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I used ribbons for the bandanas, eye patches from Target, stamps from a Disney store and Michaels

When the kids walked in they got to become a pirate with red, blue or pink ribbons to tie around their head, an eye patch and a "tattoo" which was stamps. Bran also made telescopes from these cardboard poles that were in the packaging for our patio furniture. He just taped the edges and painted them gold.

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First game we had the kids play was Feed Tic Toc Croc. I got a one of those 3 sided poster boards and just drew Croc on there then cut a hole where his mouth was and used some bean bags from a game from Ace's Carnival theme party last year. The kids loved it.

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After that we did a Dig for Treasure game. This was a game I thought only the little kids would really like but I was wrong.

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First I filled a bucket half way with rice and then added some prizes I got from Party City. I covered those with rice, then added more toys and continued to do this till it was full and all the toys were covered. I made sure the kids could see parts of some of the prizes, added a big shovel and it was complete.
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We ended up covering the floor with a black garbage bag and let the little kids go first, well all the toddlers basically just played in the rice and didn't even care about the toys so we let them bigger kids take turns grabbing 3 toys each while the little kids played in the rice. Everyone was happy and we could have let the littles do this for hours and they would have been happy.

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Since it was super rainy out we didn't get to do all the outside things we wanted to do till the very end of the party so it ended up being kind of a hot mess with bubbles going everywhere and kids slipping but eventually we were able to set up the bounce house and get the kids energy out.

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Overall Ace had a lot of fun and so did his little friends. It was a fun theme and we loved being able to be creative with it.
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Linking up with Trendy Tot Tuesday!
Ace is into dressing up now, well dressing like a pirate since his birthday so we have been wearing lots of eye patches and ribbons around our heads to look like Jake.
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