Baby boy birthday

With all the wedding talk, I forgot to mention that my baby boy is turning one in the next couple of months! I cannot believe that I am planning his first birthday when just a few months ago, I was holding him in my arms at the hospital. I can honestly say, these past few months flew by and now understand what other parents mean when they say, "Capture these moments, because they will go by faaast." Boy, they weren't kidding! =)

The past couple of weeks, I have been diligently trying to find a perfect theme. I had many ideas, but if you know me, you know exactly how indecisive I can be. At first, I wanted to go with a circus theme but realized that it was way too common and decided to go with a cookie monster theme. For a couple of weeks, I was set on this theme, but I came to a conclusion that Max doesn't even like watching Sesame Street!? If you know my bubba (he loves Micky Mouse, Little Einstein and Barney) lol, so the idea of Cookie Monster flew out the window. I was now back on square one. Finally, I had an idea. I would go with a simple theme that every boy would love to be. *Hint*Hint* That's all the hints I would say for now.

Now that I had the perfect boy theme, I needed to decide my color scheme. I had two ideas in mind. I wanted to go with the common blues and grays or go with the more neutral yellows and add a masculine black or gray to that mix. For now, that's all I came up with. Hope you stay tuned for the next couple of posts...

Back to paradise

I've been terribly busy the last month, with work, parties, weddings and not too mention weekly orders of cupcakes and desserts, my life has been nothing but on the go. I can finally now sit down and blog about upcoming exciting events.

I am proud to say that my little sissy has decided to take her nuptials to paradise! The most exciting thing of all is she asked me to help her plan her amazing paradise wedding. I was truly honored! I cannot wait to go back to the Islands (not too mention that she chose the best month of all - I will be celebrating my two year anniversary on the most beautiful location I've encountered.) She chose to get married at the same location where I got married and I honestly got goosebumps! Not only I get to celebrate my wedding anniversary in Hawaii but now get to experience another fabulous wedding.

With wedding planning experience, we were able to book her venue, caterer, florist, bartender (open bar is definitely a must) and one of the best DJ's on the island. This upcoming months, we will be working on booking her photographer, Day of Coordinator, videographer and hair & makeup artist. I cannot wait to blog about wedding posts, it brings me back when I was planning my very own wedding.

Giovanni Shrimp Trucks, Leonards Malasadas, shave ice, Mondo Gelato, loco moco here we come! =)

Themes

I've been on a blogging roll, can you tell? LOL I'm currently taking advantage of my free time blogging spree during the weekends.

But lately, after Natalie's party, my sister aka my business partner have been brain storming on what theme my delicious Maxi will have for his 1st birthday party. I never realized how difficult picking out just one idea. haha Surprisingly there are sooo many cute girlie ideas compared to boys. (That's just my opinion) I did although manage to break it down to three that I loved. Of course, I need to add my husband's input on this but if you know us, you know that we love to plan parties way in advanced. This way, by the time the party is close, we're not running around and going bananas and, kicking ourselves in the butt for not being prepared. Party planners should always be prepared. Right? Stay tuned on what I come up with...
In the meantime, how adorable is this party? I love it! It's my inspiration at the moment. Courtesy of Style me Gorgeous

Need vs Want

In my previous post, I mentioned that I have been going on a baking extravaganza... with that said, there are soooo many appliances or supplies that I soooo need. (In my husband's opinion all items are considered want.) Whatever! LOL

I'm so tired of hand mixing my batters or better yet I'm even more tired of using the electric mixer and have everything all over my clothes. I want all of these...I mean need these NOW! =)

I've always wanted a food electronic scale. This way everything I make is the same size.

I need a Silpat so bad, I waste way too much parchment paper.

Expensive Vanilla extract always makes everything taste good!

My hand is officially tired of sifting everything manually. =(

Way Overdue

Here are more wedding photos from my wedding. Mind you, a few days ago I just finally looked through thousands of these pictures my photographer sent me a couple months after the wedding. Yes, I know... one year later and procrastination results to waaay overdue . With getting pregnant, working full time, I just didn't have the time and energy to look through each and individual picture. So I'm pleased to say that I officially have the time to post my favorites. These particular photos we're signature images by Oahu's talented photographer Frank Amodo. Hope you don't mind with the wedding photo addiction... P.S. I had the best wedding entourage anyone can ask for! I ♥ all of them!

One year and counting...

A couple of days ago, the hubby and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary. Yes folks, a year ago today, we we're married on the most beautiful day in Hawaii. I still remember it like yesterday! There we're a few events that we're more memorable than others but it was one of the most amazing day of my life (other than giving birth to my little man). I married my soulmate. Here are some memory that I still cannot forget:

♥ I almost couldn't fit into my dress LOL! I blame it on some of the best cuisine Hawaii had to offer

♥ My makeup and hair artist decided to take their sweet time and almost made me miss my ceremony (luckily my limo driver knew his way around)

♥ My brother's ex-girlfriend HAD to faint right before the bride kisses the groom and "I pronounce you man and wife" (thank goodness she was fine)

♥ My uncle had a fit when the waitstaff served his fish with pepper

♥ All my young/old guests went crazy buckwild on the open bar resulting to very drunk people

♥ A true believer in whoever catches the bouquet and garter will be next! My cousin Tarzan caught our garter who got married a couple of months later. My cousin April who caught my bouquet got engaged in December and they are getting married this August!

All in all, I wouldn't change anything. I married the love of my life and had the most joyfullest time of our lives.

Crafty Mommy...

I am currently surrounded by card stocks, ribbons, scissors, the mighty Macbook Pro, and my favorite tool of them all, our HP All-in-one Printer. I have attempted to make my own invitations for my son's baptism this year. As crafty as I like to be, with a baby to take care of, I would have rather order these paper goodies from my favorite paper vendor. Although, I would have love to have the convenience to just pick a design and place an order, I decided to create my own invites to possibly save a few dollars.

This will be my second time making my own invites. My wedding invitations we're my first! I bought my own paper, envelopes, printed them out, cut each and everyone of them, and put everything together myself (with the help of the hubby of course). I think they came out lovely, simple but yet classic (in my opinion). Here they are..I'm quite proud of them. In the next post, I will post the results of Max's baptism invitations.

Wedding Inspiration

Lucky for me I was able to get married on one of the most beautiful location on the entire island of Oahu. My husband and I fell absolutely in love with one design that brought all my ideas and inspiration come true. I tracked down the designer of this wedding and emailed her right away. I mentioned how I would love the following details and would love to incorporate the same style to my wedding but using different color schemes. I received an email with a price quote and came to realization how pricey this wedding was going to be. Fortunately, the designer Yvonne Florals was able to work with my budget and capture my dream wedding which brought it to life. She created dining canopies and created a lounge area for my guests which gave everything a nice touch. Did I mention she was on Platinum Weddings who designed a gorgeous pink and taupe wedding? In the upcoming posts, I will show you exactly how my wedding came about...