Costumes, Chili & (Pumpkin) Carving

The 4th Annual Lundeland Halloween Party was a success. Saturday we had 30 of our good friends over to celebrate one of my favorite holidays!  Not that we need an excuse to dress up, but yes, costumes were mandatory. 

Matt and I went as Sheldon and Amy from the Big Bang Theory. I was not overly impressed with our effort this year; however, hard to argue with a total cost of $10. Lucky was an adorable little prisoner, and my dad brought his A-game as Clark Kent. 

Other costume highlights included...

Pilot & Air Traffic Control. Side note...happy birthday Mark!!!

Buzz Light Year and Jessie

ANCHORMAN Couple!!! Joe won "Most Committed" by shaving his beard. First time in the 4 years I have known him I have seen his chin and sweet dimples! Joe, you looked adorable!!! 

Rainforest Animals & National Geographic photographer

 Molly made the cutest Dorothy!

Polar Bear, Penguin and Daft Punk. Chuck may have scared all if the little kiddos with his costume. 

Duck Dynasty

Coming in at 2nd place was Breaking Bad.... And our number 1...winners of the evening...

The Jamaican Bobsled team from Cool Runnings!!!

Besides the costumes, the food was amazing, company great, and the rain (almost) held out the entire evening. 

Thankful for another year of dressing up, over-eating and hanging with friends!

Matt's "Pickle Meat" Party

For a friend's bachelor party, Matt and several of his friends went to New Orleans to celebrate. Apparently while they were on Bourbon Street there was a girl screaming "PICKLE MEAT." It became the word of the weekend, so much so that they determined they would have a boys-only party with pickled things and all kinds of meat! And that they did! It was cute watching a group of boys plan a party! In fact, after starting at 9am, they had so much fun the party wrapped up by 8:30pm!

Pickled Stuff

Matt, Wes and Ryan started smoking meat at 9am! That is commitment!

One of the two signature drinks - the other one was a pickled martini (YUCK!) 

Who knew the Crawfish Table would make such a great beer pong table!

Every party needs giant Jenga!

Most of the boys!

Blake's 1st Birthday: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Style

Today we celebrated Blake's first birthday party! It doesn't seem that long ago we were just celebrating Sam's first birthday. Steph did an AMAZING job of all the decor / Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme. We just love this family! And it makes me so happy we were able to attend the family birthday party as Sam and Blake's favorite non-biological aunts and uncles!

The Decor - AMAZING

Family

The sweet birthday boy!

Being silly! Love that Matt and Steph were both wearing red Toms!

I would like to point out the T-shirts that I made, just for this occasion!

And I topped off the theme with a homemade bag! B for Blake!

Blake - I know you have a lot of special people in your life that love you - and Matt and I are two of those people that think you are so special, love you, and love watching you grow. We look forward to decades upon decades of birthday parties to come - hopefully with your (one day) cousins! Love you!!!

Mad Men Harlem Shake

I heard about the latest youtube fad, the Harlem Shake, just in the nick of time! When we got to Jackson Friday night my brother Nathan said that he really wanted to get everyone at his couples shower (which was a Mad Men theme) to do the Harlem Shake. And. It. Happened.

Check out my mad videography skills below (although I can't take credit for the editing!)

Celebrating Nathan & Amy MAD MEN Style

This past weekend Matt, Mark and I hosted a couples shower for Nathan and Amy in Jackson, MS. One of my best parties EVER! We had so much fun and the married couple-to-be looked amazing! I took over 300 pictures, so I apologize in advance for the long post (but I think it is worth it!).

Party Highlights:

- Amy found a vintage WHITE dress, matching shoes AND a clutch

- Amy found a tie clip for Nathan with an "N" on it at the thrift store

- I paid $6.50 for my dress; everyone else looked amazing in general

- Having an actual bar with "bartenders" and signature drinks

- The decor

- The number of amazing friends that came

- My mom and Amy's mom both got to help with the set up

- The amazing, generous gifts they received

- The fact that everyone seemed to have SUCH a good time!

- Road tripping it with Kelly & Joe

- The look on my brother's face throughout the entire party!

With my MAD man!



Gorgeous Couple!



with Brian




No one left hungry

 

SUCH a great turnout!



Nathan getting "iced"



I could not have done it without these two! Day of helpers!



Some of the decor!

  

My bartenders!

 

I was so impressed with the attire! All of their friends really brought it!

 

Watching Mad Men has gotten Nathan & Amy into martinis - so they had 4 martini signature drinks!

 

And their own, specially decorated martini glasses!



 



Some of the advice was hilarous!



Party Favors

 

They got such lovely gifts. I am so excited for them! I would say the top two IMO: Crawfish pot and burner from Mark & Shelby, and the Handcuff Cufflinks from Brian!



While I may not be the most domesticated housewife out there - I sure can act the part at a party :)



These Are a Few of Their Favorite Things...

Last weekend Carissa hosted the cutest couples shower for Kelly & Joe. As you all know, I have a love for themed parties - and this was was ADORABLE. Carissa centered everything about the shower around Kelly and Joe's favorite things. Such a great idea - almost jealous I haven't thought of it before! (But that doesn't mean I won't use it one day and claim it as my own...JK!).



Hot sauce for the boys party favor - Joe's fav



Tea for the ladies' party favors - Kelly's fav



Such a cute couple!

 

with Tracey

 

I was in charge of cupcakes. Lemon - Kelly's favorite and Oreo - Joe's favorite!



It was fun to celebrate Kelly and Joe and watch them get such fun gifts! Carissa had the wedding party all chip in money and she got them "A Year of Dates" - another idea I want to claim as my own one day! What a great gift idea - 12 prepaid dates to their favorite places.