Oliver's Birthday Party!

Well we did it.  We pulled it off.  Oliver's sock monkey party was last night and we had a great time.  I loved having our friends here to celebrate with us.  I feel so blessed to have such great friends here in Knoxville.  Kurt's parents were able to come for the party and we were so glad to have them here as well.  Here are some pictures of the party for the family that could not make it here.  I got a lot of my ideas from pinterest, which I'm so grateful for!  *Recipes at bottom*

Thanks Aunt Libby for making our cake!

Drink table- green sweet tea, IBC root beer, coke, water

Coffee with sock monkey stirring sticks!

Smash cake- which Oliver wasn't very interested in

Food Table!!

Favors!

Make your own sock monkey puppet!

Party Hats 

Oliver's "guest book"

Monkey Butt!

And Oliver's friend Jack playing the guitar!

Recipes

Pulled Pork

Spinach and Artichoke dip- 

Taco Dip

Banana Pudding-- This is a dear friend's recipe and it's the best banana pudding I've ever had!

INGREDIENTS-

1 large box VANILLA pudding

Cool whip

Milk

Bananas

Vanilla wafers 

Make pudding using 1/2 cup LESS than directed on box.  For big box use 2.5 cup cold milk instead of 3.  Chill according to box directions.  Mix spoonful of cool whip with pudding.  Layer pudding, banana slices, wafers, cool whip until gone.  I topped my banana pudding cups with crushed vanilla wafers.  The cups I used in the pictures came from dollar tree and were disposable. 

ENJOY! 

It's almost Party Time!!!

I feel like a kid, I'm so excited for this birthday party coming up on Saturday. I'm obviously more excited than Oliver since- well- he doesn't even know it's his birthday. I have had so much fun crafting and planning this party. I've sewn, hot glued, cut, wrapped, pinned, and taped. I have refrained from posting pictures of my crafting progress because I don't want all our guests to see what I've made, since everyone some of you, read my posts...

I can however share the menu. Just for kicks and giggles. Since you're on the edge of your seat wondering what we're eating.

Pulled Pork -- my special recipe, I made it for Kurt's birthday 4 days before Oliver was born
Fruit skewers
Veggie tray with ranch dip
Baby bell cheese tray
Spinach and Artichoke Dip
Chips and Sala
Other chips
Taco Dip
Nutella Banana Sticks
Banana Pudding Cups
Cake and Ice cream

We're expecting 19 adults and 6 kiddos. Kurt's family comes Friday midday and I'm really excited about that too! Enough about the party. Lets talk about our new camera.

We got a Canon Rebel camera at the beginning of this month. Here's how cool Kurt is. I said, "I want that so bad" He said, "Ok lets get it now and we'll have it for Oliver's birthday". Easy as pie. :) Since we dropped the money on a camera we decided we should take Oliver's pictures ourselves instead of paying Sears or umm, Wal-mart (they did a surprisingly good job)- To do them.
So we put a sheet up and started snapping away and after about 250 shots, we got a few pretty good ones. We're still learning so don't be too hard on us!