Easter Weekend! :)

Easter for us was a whirlwind of events!!! We had a Birthday Party for AnaBella, an Egg Hunt, Girlie Cousin Pictures, & Grace's Easter Pictures!!! :) We truly enjoyed all the quality family time we had!

AnaBella's Third Birthday!

The Birthday Girl AnaBella!

The Birthday Banner

Her Minnie Mouse Cake her Mommy Made

The Birthday Cake her Gigi Bought

Three Generations of Awesome Gals!

Love Them!!

Cousins!

Besos!

That Balloon was TOO Cute!

Time to Sing Happy Birthday!

Blowing Out the Candles! :)

Presents!!! :)

Opening her present from Jonathan, Grace, and I! :)

She LOVED her Twinkle Toes!

Playing with the Present my Parents got her 8)

Precious Family Photo!

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Girlie Cousin Pictures!

Cousins & Friends!

Clapping & Laughing!

Sweet Smile!!!

Easter Outfit Pictures!

Grace's Easter Outfit!

Standing up pretty!

Love that Baby Girl!

Ahhh!!! She is our little everything! :)

Egg Hunt! 140 Eggs!

Josiah and Elijah hunting Eggs!

Look at him go!

Handsome Boys!

Mommy and Daddy helping him on his first hunt!

That Cast didn't slow him down! lol

Cute! Cute!

Gigi and Bella were a great team, they had loads of eggs! :)

SO Presh!

Elena and Gracie! Love this pic!

Bella!

He is growing up TOO fast!

The Peaden Kids!

The Flores Kids! LOL

Sammy & Elena!

Grace & I hunting some Eggs!

Aunt Kristen & Mommy helping her fill her basket!

LOVE this photo!

Her FIRST Egg! :)

Love her!

Sweet girl!

Ahhh! What a FUN filled Weekend! I love you Familia and look forward to many more Holidays together! We are all VERY Blessed! :)

A 'lil Minnie Mouse Party Decor!

  The Banner

Part of the Banner hanging at the Party! :)

The Banner took the MOST time... Now if you have a Cricut or something similar, this should take you no time at all, but if you're like me and don't.... Get ready to put in some hours lol! I printed off A mickey mouse head online to use as my template and then traced it on to an old cereal box. After cutting it out I traced it onto some black felt. Cutting out all the felt is what took the MOST time, so cozy up next to your hubby and use your womanly wiles to talk him into helping you. :) I promise this really helps speed things up haha! 

Then after I had all the heads cut out I used some Iron On Letters for the wording! After ample cooling time, go ahead and cut little slits through the ears for hanging purposes. And then last but not least, whip up some little bows for each of those darling minnie mouse heads! :) All done! :)

Now hindsight is 20/20, so here are some little tips that I would have done differently if I were to make another one. Apparently Iron-On letters are RIDICULOUSLY expensive, and that costed me WAY more than I originally wanted to spend. So here is another route you may want to try if you are wanting to be a little more cost effective. Instead of felt use black cardstock, and this probably wayyyy easier to cut anyways lol (ps if you have the Cricut, this is a GREAT time to use it). Instead of iron-on letters use some punch out letters from your local teacher tools store. You can just hotglue them onto the cardstock. I still think this route would be just as cute and SO much cheaper than the felt, but if you just LOVE the fabric look than by all means jump right on in! :)

The Banner shortly after Completion!

I hope this helps with a banner idea at your next Mickey/Minnie Birthday Party! :)

THE Ears! 

The Birthday Girl rocking those Ears! :)

The Minnie Mouse ears took no time at all!!! 

What you need:

A Sheet of Foam (from your local craft store)

Hot Glue & Gun

Black Headband

Black Felt

Wired Pink Ribbon

Cut four circles out of the foam that are just a smidge smaller than the size you would like for the ears. You tell how technical this is because I just used a cup from the kitchen to trace my circles lol! :) The next part is where you are going to have to eyeball it a bit. Line up two of your circles across from eachother on the felt and then sick your headband in the middle. Now trace a "figure eight" from this, leaving enough slack for them to wrap around the headband in the middle. Also leave a little room around the foam for gluing the opposing pieces of felt together; then cut out another pair. After both have been cut go ahead and glue the foam together, two circles per ear. And then glue the two foam pairs to the two pieces of identical felt cut outs. Now all you have to do is glue the middle part of the felt to the headband and adjoin the the ears together. Do this for both ears and you have some Mickey Mouse ears!!! To make them Minnie, toss on a Bow!!! :) Sorry I didn't have pictures to follow this up, but you can always shoot me some questions if you have them! :)

My 'lil Cutie modeling THE Ears too! :)

I hope my little ears find their way into your next Mickey/Minnie party! :) If you wanna have a lot of fun make enough for all your guests, I am sure you could get a TON of cute and hilarious pics! :)

Happy Crafting!!!

Holiday Crazzinesss & Sicknesss!

So I have been super terrible about keeping up with our blog the past few weeks, I am so sorry! Sickness and Holiday preparations have overwhelmed our little household. Many Dr. visits and ER visits for me and Gracie have made things a little hectic over here. Thankfully, we are feeling much better and were able to enjoy our favorite holiday! :)

New news on the Gracie-Bug front! We have top teeth!!! LOL!!! And we like to nibble on t-shirts with those front teeth, so funny!

She has curls now!!! Ahhhh!!!! I love them!!!

She loves to sing and bounce at the same time!!! Her little singing voice is music to my ears!

She willingly keeps bows and hats on! :) This makes mommy VERY happy! 8)

Now onto the serious stuff...

We had ECI out this past week and they were so helpful! They were Very intrigued with our little Gracie... The therapist was astounded by Grace's ability to focus and her interest in evaluating everyyythinnnggg lol.  She was SO intrigued that she is sending out a team of more therapists that are even more specialized than she is. To us, this is normal for Gracie, but the therapist said that in all her years of working with babies she has never seen one like Grace. This was definitely uplifting for our family... With all the struggling we have been through over the last year and a half, it was such a blessing to hear such positive feedback for once! :) I look forward to all the different ways we can continue to challenging her intellectually. :)

The therapist also put my "neurological disorders" worry for Gracie-Bug at rest. She said with the amount of intense trauma Grace's body had sustained over the first 13 months of her life that we should expect a delay in her development. It was wonderful to finally have someone who understands what our daughter has been through and is able to help her fully recover. :) Such a Praise!!!

While we still aren't able to completely rule out serious neurological disorders, I do still hope and pray for the best and know that either way God is in control and will be with us every step of the way. Thank you to all those who have been continuously praying for our little angel and we ask that ya'll keep it up, God hears each and every prayer. :) Thank you from the heart! :)

I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas!!! And I hope you enjoyed a few of our Gracie Christmas pictures from this season! :)

Happy Holidays from The Wheats!!! :)