Things I didn't know

12 Things I didn't know before Jagger's First Birthday Party that I know now!

See numbers 8 & 9

1. Frankenstein Cake will turn your babies poop lime green the day after it has been eaten.
2. My Brothers Wife will steal food from the party by pretending like the stolen food is scraps of half eaten food from the kids plates for her puppy.
3. My Brothers Wife will collect 5 large take home boxes full of these scraps.
4. My Brothers Wife possesses some obscure magical power to turn 5 bread sticks and 3 pieces of partially eaten pizza into 4 large take home boxes full of scraps that don't have not even the first bite taken out of them.
5. My Brothers Wife will also steal all the vanilla cake, leaving me with only 2 pieces of vanilla and 6 pieces of chocolate cake. 
6. My family doesn't like chocolate cake.
7. Carrot cake is amazingly tasty, but Jagger still prefers the icing no matter how good the Carrot Cake is.
8. When making Dracula cookies you should not use the black gel icing for his hair or else they will come out looking more like Gene Simmons than Dracula.
9. That sometimes you just have to accept that your vampire cookies look more like Edward Cullen than Dracula because you can't undo what has been done, especially if what has been done was done on white cookie icing.  Just embrace your messy haired Edward Cullen cookies and move on with the day.  
10. That the hardest part of decorating a Frankenstein shaped cake is the bolts in his neck.  You should also not put the bolts at his hair line, because not only is this wrong but it is a bitch to remove!
11. That no one will tell you if you're walking around with eyeliner smudged on your face/cheek even though they know that you just rushed home to take a 4 minute shower so you could wash your face and hair and you haven't put your makeup on yet let alone look in a mirror.  So thanks for telling me, assholes!
12. That some kids think it's acceptable behavior to ask for more than one gift bag over and over even after you've told them that you only have enough for one per person.  Especially if these kids have been raised by my Brothers Wife.  They also may attempt to take things out of Aiden's gift bag while he isn't looking to put into theirs.  (Actually only my niece did this, my nephew is a darling and very mature and well behaved.)

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Fawk You Friday

It's Friday again, which means that I will be participating in my usual Friday blog activities, minus one of course.  In case you haven't heard Ashley (aka The Crazy Brunette) decided to quit blogging.  I know, I'm sad about it too.  I'm just glad that I can still keep in touch with her through Facebook and E-mail because if she had just vanished into thin air then I just wouldn't have known what to do, I believe I would have just cried myself to sleep every night.  You have to picture me saying that in my best sugary sweet Scarlett O'Hara Southern voice to understand it's full weight and impact.  That probably has something to do with why Ashley didn't disappear completely.  No one wants to see a pretty girl cry, it's just wrong!

To Ashley, we all miss your blog & your Blog Stalk Friday as well as all you had done for our little community of bloggers here.  I prefer Ashley to CB any day though, and am very proud of you for making a hard decision and throwing in the towel.  I hope to one day see you back in the blogosphere as Ashley, without any other persona or mask to hide behind, you're far too fabulous to be taking on an online persona and posting as only part of yourself while hiding the other wonderful parts of your personality and who you are away.  Everyone loved CB, but all of those who know you love Ashley even more.  You're an amazingly loyal wife, mother, sister, daughter and friend.  I'm glad to have "met" you and am proud to call you (Ashley) my friend!  Long story short -- You're the shit, bitch!

Now, onto Fawk You Friday with two of my favorite bitches Jana from Boobies Babies & a Blog and Christy from I'm Just Sayin'!

You two better not leave me, because I really don't know what I would do without Fawk You Friday to list the things that piss me off each week!

The coolest Birthday Party -- EVER!

I'm in the midst of planning the coolest first birthday party that you've ever seen.  It's taking up a good deal of my time, and between that and my design work I haven't had very much time for my own blog.  Which makes me sad, because I really do enjoy blogging.  Since the party is on my mind, I've decided to blog about it.  Well, I also need somewhere to put my ideas.  A place where Aiden won't find them and rip the paper they're written on to shreds or draw me a picture on them.  You get the idea.

Jagger's party is going to be a Halloween themed costume party.  I absolutely love Halloween!  It's one of my favorite holidays, and I am so beyond psyched to plan this party and go all out with decorations and all that!

The first order of business is the theme.  Since I've decided on what I want it's time to pick the decorations, plates, cups and all that good stuff.  For this I did an extensive search of the interwebs, and this is what I have come up with!

Meet The Boo Bunch!

You can check out the full selection of Boo Bunch decorations and party supplies here!  I am getting both of these and these plates, cups, napkins, table cloth, door cover, this banner, the cupcake tower, these edible images and this banner which will say Happy First Birthday Jagger!