When you were young...

Three things:

One:

We are having Jake's 10th birthday party today.

Sigh.

It's the cut off for big birthday parties and I'm not sure who is more regretful about this, him or me...

I love planning parties. 

Figuring out the menu (pizza and ice cream cake - hey, what can I say, they are 10 year old boys)

Setting up the activities (paintball - hey, see above)

Trying to think of a cool "goody bag" worthy of their 10 year oldness but not loading up a sack of crap from the dollar store for their mother's to chuck in the garbage when they get home. 

After much thought and collaboration, Jacob and I came up with this:

We burned a bunch of the must have tunes for the pre-teen set (mostly comprised of Weird Al Yankovic with a couple of rock songs thrown in for balance) onto cd's and made these covers in photoshop. We threw in a pack of gum and a small pack of Pokemon cards (he's mature, but he's still only 10) and called it a day.

TWO:

My pretty fly friend (PSA: with the event of downloading probably too much of the Offspring onto my IPOD, I've been feeling quite compelled to work the phrase "pretty fly" into my conversation and even though this may seem like a gratuitous use of the phrase, she is indeed, pretty fly), Michele, tagged me with this:

 

This is how it works:

(1) The winner can put the logo on their blog.

(2) Link the person you received your award from.

(3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

(4) Put links of those on yours.

(5) Leave a message on the blogs of the girls or boys you’ve nominated

And the nominations are....

1.  Dianne - whose enthusiasm, kindness and most excellent digital skills make me smile on a daily basis

2.  Jen Sizemore - this lady oozes pure talent, everytime I see one of her projects I wish she lived closer so I could soak up some of her awesomeness. Oh! And she also introduced me to the term "Ink Thumping" (which I still think sounds kind of naughty)

3. Libby - more mad digital skills and now she is an amazing digital designer as well, and she is always there to answer any photoshop or teeth question I might have (she has mad teeth information skills too)

4. Karen - is super sweet, super talented and the teacher I wish my boys had the good fortune to learn from

5.  Ramona - has a simple style I totally dig and I love her passion

6. Jennifer - whose sarcastic wit keeps me laughing daily (as does the exploits of her boys - three of them, which I totally am in awe of)

7. Candice - who I am so happy to have had the good fortune to meet on the interwebs through scrapbooking and Simple Scrapbooks and whose photography prowess makes my jaw drop regularly (and check out that banner she has up - fun stuff people!)

THREE:

This is my 10 year old and his new hat.

We went school clothes shopping and all he wanted was a hoodie, a t-shirt and this hat.

I had to bite my tongue before I spit out the fact that my Grandpa's both used to sport fedoras not unlike his new lid. 

He thinks he's utterly cool.

I kind of think so, too.

Comments

[kelli]

What is it with boys and those hats? Mine had to have one a few years ago too.
Kerry said you are Mom of the Year for those cool cds. Nice, thanks a bunch.

[Leslie Herbert]

Love the picture Cheryl and sooo glad you are posting again!

[Karen]

Thank you, my friend. I would be honored to have either one of your boys in my class. I love Jake's style...and I bet all the girls do too!

[melanie louette]

Hope that the party was great, and you did good on the loot bag cds- we have done that, and it was a huge hit. :)
Love that hat, lol!

[mom]

I don't understand...if you both love parties so much...why quit

[Jennifer Sizemore]

Those CDS are way cool. You don't have to quit parties remember, you still have Lucas!!!! And thanks for the tag :)

[Gorgeous George]

Jake looks Pretty Fly...kinda like his old man!

[Antonia B.D.]

Man... I have that same hat. It rocks. It is cool. And the CD idea is just so cool! So much better than the "cheap dollar store stuff"!