Tea Party?

We were sick a couple of weeks ago and had to get creative with our indoor fun.
I hosted a tea party...Step 1:
Make tea.
(I put a drop of food coloring in Sprite... a different color for the sugar and cream)

Step 2:Ignore the messy house...

Step 3:

Be sure everyone is dressed up (PJs or no pants) and that you take turns hosting (pouring every one's tea).

Step 4:

ENJOY! (FYI - These pictures will be saved to show all of Eli's future girlfriends!)

Project 320

Remember that awesome messy bow giveaway hosted by Julie from Joy's Hope?

(someone bought the owl one I wanted!)Julie and a few of her friends are hosting an amazing fundraiser... it's actually more of an epic event to change the world... but I'll let her tell you about it...

What does Project 320 stand for?I live my life by this verse:
Now glory be to God! By His mighty power at work within us, He is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope.
Ephesians 3:20This project is more than I could ever ask or hope.
Collectively working together to do something good.
Something big.
Something amazing.
The plan is simple:One well.
One week.

This is my {crazy} dream:
To collect 100 handmade and heartfelt items.
Divide them into 10 giant, happy prize bundles.Have five days of giveaways.Two bundles of prizes featured each day.
But not just the "enter, enter, enter, get, get, get" type of giveaways.
More of a raffle.Each $10 donation to charity:water equals one entry.Readers can choose their favorite prize bundle or bundles, donate and then put their names in the drawing to win.
We will have our own webpage so entrants can donate directly to the well and we all can track and celebrate the progress.
10 bundlesIt will only take 50 comments a bundle
To equal $5,000.
$5,000 fully funds a well.A well that can save 500 lives.
Change an entire village.Forever.Ambitious? Maybe?
Doable? Certainly.
A little giving instead of just getting.



Powerful.
Keep updated with the Project 320 blog here.
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And (of course) buy loads of tickets!!!
I'm donating Eli's Lids and the stuff I've been making for She's Crafty.

Today last year...

We were getting ready for Christmas too!

Making this awesome paper chain countdown to Christmas.

Remember?

Jim Gaffigan...

...equals HUGE disappointment.

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The talented Suz from Alive in Wonderland introduced us to Jim Gaffigan through this hysterical bacon post.

After reading her post, we headed on over to YouTube and watched his other bits... AWESOME.

For the next couple of weeks, would watch Gaffigan on Hot Hubby's iPhone before snuggling up to bed. We laughed till we cried! His camping bit (no longer on YouTube) describes Hot Hubby's "love" for camping (as seen here and here) perfectly!

Anyway, we saw Jimmy Boy was coming to town. We got all dolled up (proof from the picture taken by our babysitter before we left, below), shelled out $50 a ticket to see him at The Grove of Anaheim (where I happened to work for 4 years), hired a sitter, and budgeted a dinner out.

(Total side note: I spent 30 minutes curling my hair per the request of Hot Hubby and burned the H%!* out of my neck. Looks like I have a huge hickey!)

We went to El Torito for dinner where I got a cheap dinner salad and ate about 30 free tortillas with gobs of that lovely honey butter slathered on top.
It was good.
Really good. Excited as can be, we moseyed to the Grove and anxiously waited in our seats.
Packed house.
Show starts.
Wait a minute... we've heard that joke before.
"He must just be doing some of his old stuff to warm up." (We reassure each other.)
Another old joke.

That whole bit was the same. WORD FOR WORD! Same EXACT voice inflections.

Hot Hubby and I begin to recite the lines before he says them.

We can't even fake laugh.

He is doing the same show he did in 2005, verbatim!

It was so fresh in our minds because we watched it before the show to get pumped up.

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Show is over.
We get 31 Flavors.
The Peanut Butter Chocolate makes me feel a bit better.
Dear Jim Gaffigan,
You owe us...
$100 for two tickets to a show you did 4 years ago (which can be downloaded for free on Netflix!)
$30 for our El Torito dinner
$50 for the babysitter
$250 Emotional damages for the curling iron burn on my neck that looks like a hickey.
I won't charge you for the 31 Flavors ice cream (you're welcome).
Warmly,
KN