Gingerbread Festival

This year we attended our first ever Gingerbread Festival at the hospital! Zach went hunting, so it was just us girls! Zach's mom and grandma came with us too! We had a blast and Ansley ate more of her gingerbread house than built, but we still had a good time! :)

I believe this was the third year for the gingerbread festival and they had a good turn out! They have a contest every year for the "best" gingerbread house! My co-workers and I got suckered into entering the contest this year! It was VERY stressful, but in the end we had fun and can't wait for next year. We ended up placing fouth :(  My husband helped us out at lot with the construction of the house! He made the blue print and the helicopter! We of course ended up having an ambulance theme! We actually made our little corner of the hospital! It turned out great! Hope you think so too! We spent sooooo many hours working on this house!  The pics below are of 1st and 2nd place! Awesome houses!

4th place!



Ansley "building/eating" her gingerbread house

Story time! :)

Have I created THIS?

Here she is CLEANING away in her room! I was dusting her room and putting keepsakes away in her action packer when I turned around to find her doing this!! :)

Its no secret that I have OCD when it comes to cleaning and trust me I'm not as bad as I was before Ansley was born! Teresa even video taped her at her house cleaning her high chair with her burp rag! lol.

I typically do all my cleaning when she's asleep, but I'm sure I'm to blame for my 1 year old cleaning! lol

Ansley's Part: Part 3

At last the final post on Ansley's Birthday! :) We had a great day and I want to thank everyone again for coming! THANKS :)  Some of the pics are from her actual Birthday at our house, some from the party and some of us at home in her diaper after the party!

Happy Bithday Monkey! We love you!

Ansley's party: Part 2

My husband will be so proud two post's in two days!! :)  Anyway, back to the birthday bash!! I believe there will only be 2 parts to her party! :) So here we go:

Cake: Don't you just love this beautiful MASTER PIECE!! :) Credit goes all to Zach! He baked it and decorated it! :) Got the idea from good ol' Martha Stewart! (don't really care for her, but she does have some GREAT ideas!) I love, love the way it turned out and Zach was pretty proud of himself too! :) Good job honey!

Cupcakes: Again. Zach baked these too! :) I lucked out on the baking this year! :) Zach baked them early Saturday and decorated that night! Zach's brother came to help decorate and I love the way they turned out! We used milk duds for the ears! :) LOVE IT! Thanks again Seth!

HAT: I ordered her birhday hat from ETSY! Love that place! :) I ordered them from this store! Again, very easy to work with and I loved the way it turned out! If only she would wear it for longer than 2 minutes! I didn't order it in time for her 1year pics, but I still loved the way it turned out! :)

We also made the banner from Brenda's cricut!

TABLE: Here is a look at the table all decorated up! The balloons and rose were a gift from gpa and gma McCaslin! :) Zach picked up the banana's and peanuts at a Candy Store in Wichita! The Nifty Nut House! Love that place! I guarantee you will see an ambulance there if you go! We use to stop there all the time at work! :) Yummy! 

The PARTY: We had her party at Kellogg Hall, west of town! It was a perfect place to have it! Besides, we couldn't fit everyone in our house! :) I forgot to take pics of the guest tables! We had a plate with the banana's and peanuts in the center, with suckers and soap around the plate! We also has this pic for the guests to take home! Thanks to Laura for getting us a pic so early! :) 

Ok, so maybe I was wrong! I think I will do a part 3 with all her gifts and guest's!:)