DIY Soccer Banner NINJA

My son has been on two soccer teams and they both have been something NINJA. If the next team is Ninja I might just scream. This banner turned out good the only bad thing was I saw a couple of kids do side ninja kicks through out the season. Cool looking but the ball never went very far kicked like that. :)

Need Some ideas for a HOEDOWN? You've come to the right place

The end of the school year party is always a big deal. And this year the parents went all out with the western theme. They started decorating the school on Monday, which got everybody so excited. The decorations were well thought out especially the WANTED signs of all the teachers. They also took western theme classroom pics. Just a couple props and boy were these teachers disguised!

More creative decorations covered the school

 
 

Decorations from sunflowers to balloon cacti, burlap and bandanas nothing was forgotten for this shindig!

The Games Included:

Searching for paperclips in a bucket filled with sunflowers seeds.

How many can you find in 30 seconds.

Tic Tac Toe 

Played with tossing a cornhusk vs. potato 

There's a snake in my boot

Dropping rubber snakes while standing on a hay bail.

Lasso a horse

Just a hula hoop and a rocking horse made quite a fun game.

Needle in a haystack

Searching for a penny while blind folded

Other games not pictured:

• Life size jenga
• Spray the plastic bug across the table, RACE
• Bowling
• Good old ring toss with coca cola bottles
• Knock the cans down
• Wagon wheel muscial chairs done like a cupcake walk.
• Gunny sac races
• horse race around the cones

Just in case you thought there wasn't enough to do we had these great Cardboard Cutouts:

Chickens to pet 

Pony Ride

Pretty good shindig for some city kids. Of course the food was great too.  The menu had cotton candy, popcorn, snow cones, mac and cheese, water melon and grapes. 

Probably the best school day ever. 

I wonder what next end of the school year party will be?

Angry Bird Shirts made with Duct Tape

I was on a dodgeball team.... yeah I know why? It was fun for a couple weeks but every Wednesday was a bit much. Anyways if you need a angry bird shirt just for a day you can make it with duct tape and a sharpee. My sister made these for a dodgeball dress up night.

All my kids first loves

I find myself always trying to capture my children's childhood and this is a picture I love. When each baby was born we picked out a special stuffed animal and matching blanket. Since they were all only two years apart we happened to collect the PotteryBarn Kids line of plush toys. It's so sweet for the kids to see newborn pictures of themselves almost the same size as their special toy.

Sharks Soccer Banner

I didn't make this banner but I saw it at picture day and I was quite impressed. There are not enough examples of homemade banners out there and this one is great. I asked the team about  who made it and they said all the moms got together and made it a fun night.Wow, impressive teamwork all around. I like the shiny material for the ocean. Maybe next time I volunteer for  banner maker I'll have a get together too.

Whales in Pacifica!

We stayed at the Pacifica Beach Hotel and had ocean view. We could see all sorts of whale sightings such as spouts, backs and even tails!! We ate at Taco Bell on the beach and counted 25 sightings in only 30 minutes. At one time we saw 4 spouts go off. If you haven't been to Pacifica, go now! Enjoy the 50+ surfers.  The beach also had a lot of little pieces sea glass! There is also a skate park across the street from the hotel.

My little guy could not get enough of all the action with the surfers!

ROCKET PARTY

Since I am reminiscent of my son's past birthdays I thought I should mention a favorite party. The rocket party was so much fun because we blasted rocket upwards of 30 feet!
We used:
A 2 liter empty soda bottle
stickers, card stalk, blue tape, dollar store diaper disposable bags (as parachutes) birthday hats,

We filled the 2 liter soda bottle 1/3 full with water and put it on an ez-launch rocket blasting machine. It costs $50 but it doesn't disappoint. We entertained over 20 kids for two hours with this coolest rocket machine.

Here is a pic of how high it goes. Every blast is entertaining and so much fun to watch it fly!