Pirates and Princesses Birthday Party!

This weekend we had Kolton and Kaylee's annual Birthday Bash!

This year's theme was Pirates and Princesses!

Everyone said they had a great time and I know

Kolton and Kaylee had a blast!  

I had fun designing and planning ever detail of their big day, 

from the invitations to the printables to the food.

I love making their parties special for them.

One of the new things I decided to do at their party this year was 

a DIY Photo Booth, I got the props pre made at walmart

they were perfect for our party and everyone fun being silly!

Here's just a few of our fun photos:

Pirate Kolton

Princess Kaylee and Queen Nanny

Princess Kaylee

Me and Pirate Princess Auntie Michelle!

Me and my littlest pirate, isn't that Mustachifier the best ever!

For more photos of the party (mostly food, haha) head on over to 

Green Lunches, Green Kids

The graphics I used for this party came from

Zenware Designs at MyGrafico.com

Free Printable : Wi Fi Password Sign

Hey guys!

Kolton and Kaylee's party is coming up soon,

and the families are coming to visit,

we're going to have a full house for sure.

I didn't want to have to dig around for the piece

of paper that has our wifi password on it

every time someone needed it:

So I whipped up this handy sign,

laminated it,

and pinned it to my bulletin board.

Hope you like it!

Click on the picture above to open it in 

Google Docs, 

there will be a black arrow in the top left corner

click it to start your download!

2014 Facebook Timeline Cover

Hey y'all.  Hope you are ringing in the new year

with your loved ones!

Here's a little FB timeline cover I whipped up this afternoon.

Feel free to save it and use it!

Happy New Year,

From

The Verde's!

Teacher Gifts in 10 Minutes with Free Printable!

 

If you're anything like me... you're a last minute shopper.

This year has been especially bad because of the late Thanksgiving,

I just can't pull myself together and get my shopping done.

After seeing an article my friend Liz posted about gifts that teachers

actually want as opposed to gifts people think they want

I figured I'd just go with coffee gift cards.

Let's be honest, if I was going to be in a room with

20 five year olds all day,  I'd need all the caffeine I could get.

Liz--I hope you approve! :)

I started by creating these super coffee cut outs,

and because I love a good pun I knew they had to say

"Thanks a latte for all you do" 

I left off Merry Christmas, incase I (or you) want to use them

as a general thank you gift.

I also took a few sleeves from one of my (many) trips to 

Starbucks and taped them (at the back)

then used double sided tape to stick the gift cards to the sleeves.

Hope you like them! 

I also had Kolton sign them, because I think it adds to the cuteness!

You should be able to right click and save the image below to your computer

and print it out, I have it sized for 8.5x11 paper already.

Wine Christmas Printable!

Hey y'all, hope your holiday season is off to a great start.

Just wanted to share this printable I whipped up this morning.

Hope you like it, if you do share it on Pinterest or Facebook!

Version 1 with white border 

Version 2 without border

You should just be able to save them to your computer and print them,

just remember to check the print settings so there's no border,

you want to print them as photos. :)

Free Washi Tape Themed Preschool Printables!

A couple of weeks ago, I had to pull Kaylee out of preschool.

We had several issues with her school and then one big issue

that pushed us over the limit.

So basically, I'm doing at home preschool now.

We're calling it "Mommy School"

This is the set up we've been using,

it's just a couple of foam boards from the dollar tree

with a washi tape border

and some printables I made up using clipart from

Jessica Wieble Illustrations

 

Days of the Week Printable

Calendar Numbers

And the last day, plus blanks

This is the calendar we are using, I left the month of so we could reuse it (laminated),
it's for Monday through Friday

Sticker Chart (Version 1) 5 Days

Version 2-7 days

You should be able to just click and save these then print them!

Care Package Ideas and Free Printable!

While Lorne was deployed he told me that whenever anyone downrange

gets a package in the mail everyone starts asking for stuff and trading,

He said "It's kind of like prison, I guess."  haha this made me laugh so hard

but it also made me step up my packages haha.

Thought I'd share some ideas here since I did a lot of googling myself!

"We're so 'Blue' without you!"

I never met a pun I didn't like.

This one is self explanatory.  I just bought everything blue I could think of.

Some items included blue (salt and vinegar) lays stax, blue candy, blueberry pop tart minis,

rice crispies, and I always included a Mio Drink Squeezer, because he likes them and had 

complained about the water.

This one was the last box I sent.  It's a Texas box, because Texas Rox!

I decorated it with Bowling For Soup lyrics "Come back to Texas!"

and a Texas flag Kolton colored.

I included Texas Rangers Peanuts, a Texas Flag, Texas Candy Bar, a jar of 

salsa his mom made from the stuff she grows in her garden.

I told you I love puns, right?!

"Orange you glad this deployment's almost over?!"

Included is cheese crackers, Mandarin oranges, chex mix, reeses, beef jerky.

Basically anything orange.

Here's the free printable to use on the Orange Box,

just set it to fill entire page and it's the perfect size to fit a medium flat rate.

I also did a St. Patrick's Day one with all green,

an Easter one that was a mini easter basket (complete with grass).

Hope these get you started.