Celebrating Lyle Arthur {the details}

The decorations

Can you tell anything different about these streamers? They are ruffled and two colors! The idea came from here. They took longer than I thought {since I'm not very good at sewing} but looked really cool. Not sure I will do them again though :)

The monkeys hanging from the streamers {and the other cut outs} came from my friend Theresa's cricut {she always tells me I should get one, but then I would not have any excuse to stop by ;)}

The banner said Lyle Arthur. You can download it here

The Food

Strawberries stuffed with cheesecake! These were AMAZING! Super easy too. I did not have the tool she uses so I just cut the strawberries with a knife

These were suppose to be lions and monkeys. They were suppose to look like these {Jen they were harder than they looked :)} but we tried our best 

O how I love stripped straws now! They raised the price a little since my friend Jen bought them {now 8 cents a piece :)} but they are still a killer deal. Thanks for sharing Jen!!

The Games

 I love games that are sentimental. Kyle's answers were priceless, the Campbell's love UC and the Crofford's love UK.

The Favors

Ryan loves Star Wars so when I saw this cute idea I knew I had to do it.

The Gifts

I used this tutorial and this one for these cute onesies! Since I am not very experienced in sewing, I sewed some of them {well really Connie did it :)} and then ironed on the other ones.

This idea came from here. I cut the letters out of UC fabric {1/8 yard would be plenty} and then glued them onto grey card stock paper, it turned out better than I thought :)

Celebrating Lyle Arthur

Another bestie is having a baby! Ashley and Ryan are expecting Baby Lyle in less than a month. We had a cute, small shower to get them prepared for their little guy.

Star Wars favors

Strawberries stuffed with cheesecake

stripped straws

Shelby Paige is a month old now :)

one of the games we played

Kyle came in after the shower was over and Ashley made him do one. He filled it out in a really funny way

The gifts I made  

Mountain Momma take me home country roads

A couple weekends ago my padre and I traveled to good ole West Virgina to go Whitewater Rafting on the New River. I have been going for a little over ten years and this year we did something new, we did a bridge walk tour. During the bridge walk we walked across the New River Gorge canyon on a 24 inch wide catwalk - 850 feet above the river! It is the longest bridge in North America and is the highest vehicular bridge in the Americas, and the second-highest in the world - 3,030 feet (924 m) long and its arch extends 1,700 feet (518 m) {all information taken from the bridge walk site}.

I was not scared to do this once I knew we were harnessed in but my dad {who suggested we do this} was not as excited once we got out there. He did not like being out there at first, but did not show it and he was really uneasy because the catwalk shakes when semi-trucks or other large vehicles go over the bridge. I'm not sure I would do it again because nothing is really going to change but it was cool to do it.

Enjoy the pictures

our guide {who was a senior in hs} wore boat shoes :)

Halfway across

 

how my dad really felt about being up there

the blog title came from this song, a must if you are driving through wv