Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Catch up on fall 2012

Wow, just noticed it has been 6 months since I have been or updated our blog :(  Its been a crazy couple of months.  

Well since Luke's big 30th party, we have done a few things :)
Me, Luke, and Janiece went with my sister, my dad, and Laurie to South Dakota to visit my grandmother.  I haven't been back there since Janiece was 2 years old (I think).  So it was nice to finally take Luke back and introduce him to the Butenschoen side of the family :)


My dad, Luke, my sister, me, Laurie, my grandmother, and Janiece

Me and Janiece with my grandmother. Oh, I missed her sooooo much!!  It was a tough time to say good-bye :(

And Luke found some Iowa geese!


Then we came back to a surprise Anniversay party that we put together for my other grandparents.  It was their 60th Anniversary.  I am truly blessed to have some sweet grandparents around!

"Surprise"

The cute cake pops that I made for the party

My amazing grandparents!!  Love them :)




Then the girls went back to school in August.  Janiece is in 7th grade at Greenfield Jr High and loving it!!

Ciera is now in 2nd grade at Patterson Elementary and loves her teacher!!



Then for the girls fall break, the Brandt's headed to San Diego for a couple of days!!
We went to San Diego Zoo, took a short cruise to Coronado Island and played at Balboa park.  We had a blast!!


Dinner in San Diego


San Diego Zoo

Tram over the zoo


Our little monkeys

Of course had to have some churros

San Diego Bay

Cruise over to Coronado Island

Coronado Island



Balboa Park


and then some dinner with some friends in Old town San Diego before our trip back home.


Janiece played volleyball again for the fall season.  We lucked out one the team that she got on, they were sooo good together.  I think they won 7 games and only lost twice!  We are praying to get the same coach for spring season!


Then we had our 2nd Annual Pumpkin Carving party.  Such a blast to get together with friends and just carve away some pumpkins, always so cool to see who can be so creative.
The table of pumpkins


Ciera's pumpkin

The group of pumpkins

And the girls dressed up for Halloween


And of course our halloween costumes!!  Party on DUDE :)







Sunday, August 12, 2012

Luke's 30th birthday

It was the BIG "30" for my hubby, Luke.  So of course I had to plan a super big surprise party for the guy!!  He loves superman so I put together a superman themed party which made it soooo much fun to do!!  Here are the pics.


The invite that I made

Another sign I made to put on the door to the party

The masks I made for the guests

LOVE, Love the letters that I put together with comic book paper... Sooo cute!

Birthday banners I made also out of comic books

The table with all the fun superman stuff!



The cake that I made

Cake pops that I made in the cute holder that I threw together also


My hubby stuffed superman doll also made the party :)

I think my hubby loved having some comic books leftover for him to read!

The cake




Janiece and some friends waiting for the birthday boy
The birthday boy in the car on the ride over to the restaurant!! I was in tears :)

Walking him to the door
I seriously was dying!!


"SURPRISE"



I think I got him good!!




The matching Superman's!!  Luke and our nephew Carter

Trying to rescue me

The superhero and his birthday attire!!

Some other heroes came to celebrate.  Our family, mom and dad, uncle Lon and grandma

Leah with baby Madeline with her party mask on :)

The guys: Colby, Kyle, and Luke

Dad and Laurie

Me and my hubby


Luke and Nathan


Mom and Danny

Some of our friends from church

Mom and Dad


Janiece and Sharon who drove all the way from Vegas to surprise the birthday boy!!


Grandpa and Aunt Marci

Mom, Uncle Lon, and grandma

I put this cape together for the birthday boy to wear and also for his guests to sign leaving there marks, lol.  What a great night we had and I'm glad I was able to pull it off after 4-5 months of planning and trying to keep my mouth shut!! :)
Thank you all friends and family for coming!

Here is also a link to a video that I put together that was supposed to play during the party but the dvd didn't want to work :(   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ifcgikuQE&feature=youtu.be

OH, and the better pictures are from my talented friend Nikelle Bennett from Nikelle Bennett Photography!!  Love her work!!  
http://nikellebennettblog.com/