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Fun Family Games for the Fourth of July




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For me, the Fouth of July is always spent with family.  Whether it’s swimming or playing games or watching fireworks, we are always together. I remember one year we played a bunch of simple games with the kids and had a blast.  It wasn’t a ton of work and it was fun; which is a win for me! We thought we show off some family fun you could have with your own family this Fourth of July and decided to partner with one of our favorite companies, Oriental Trading!

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Elegant Natural Wedding Reception





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I mentioned in our DIY Farmhouse Patio table post that I was planning on using it for an upcoming wedding.  Well, I’m super excited to share the finished project with you!!  Oriental Trading helped supply some special finishing touches to make this elegant, simple, nature-inspired wedding reception.  I love that Oriental Trading has a whole section of their site devoted to weddings!  It’ll make planning your special day easy and affordable.

Elegant Nature-Inspired Wedding Reception Jolly and Happy

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Ladies of Liberty Paint Party with Social Artworking




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Lara and I both have a group of amazing girlfriends and we love to find new ways to get the ladies together to hang out.  Fourth of July is around the corner and we thought it would be a great holiday to base our next girls’ night out around.  Social Artworking to the rescue!!  We’ve used them before for my daughter’s birthday party last year and it was SO much fun, we knew our friends would have a blast!

Paint Party with Social Artworking Jolly and Happy

We decided to call our gathering the “Ladies of Liberty Patriotic Paint Party” knowing that our girls are always down for good theme.  Social Artworking makes parties like this easy and painless.  They have consultants you can work with to help you plan your party or you can go online to put your own party together like we did!

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Garden Party Wedding Reception




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Awhile back I was approached by Heidi, a dear friend of mine whose daughter, Emily, was getting married. She asked if I’d be willing to help put together a celebration for the bride and groom. Of course, I said yes!  Not only do I adore Heidi but I had been a youth leader at church for Emily a couple of times. It has been so fun to see the beautiful young lady she has grown into!

Garden Party Wedding Reception Jolly and Happy
Heidi and Emily really allowed me a lot of freedom in planning. They basically gave me the wedding colors and said go!  I recalled a few special memories that Heidi had shared with me about her family that I used as inspiration for the garden party theme.  Here is the foyer where the guests first enter. I always love to make sure that the second you enter a party, you can sense what the theme is.

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Be Our Guest! Beauty and the Beast party




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If you’ve followed us for any length of time, you know we are MAJOR Disney geeks over here!!  And we’ve been counting down until the new Beauty and the Beast movie release.  To celebrate, we put together a BATB premiere party!  We invite you to relax, let us pull up a chair.  As WE proudly present…. our party!

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Gender Reveal Party

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My younger brother and his wife announced they were expecting their first baby on Christmas Eve. Needless to say, our family is very excited!  This past weekend, they hosted a gender reveal party and I found out whether I have a niece or nephew coming….

gender reveal party jolly and happy

I knew I wanted to get a present for the new baby.  Not knowing the gender yet, I decided to get two gifts and they could open the corresponding gift once we knew.

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Christmas Donut Bar Party




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So I think we’re all in agreement that Donut December should be a thing, right?!  I’d love an excuse to eat these yummy, adorable treats for a month!  Keeping with that idea, we created a Christmas build-your-own Donut Bar party where all of your December donut dreams comes true.

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T.G.I… “Fuller House” Bingo





When I was younger, I lived for Friday night and the TGIF two hour block of TV shows!!  “Full House” was absolutely my fav!  I wanted to marry Uncle Jesse (I mean, who didn’t!) and I wished my side ponytail-stretch pants-oversized sweatshirt self looked half as cool as the Deej or Stephanie!  Of course, all good things must come to an end and so did my #1 show.

fuller house bingo

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Ice Cream Parlor Birthday & Baby Shower





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I’ve always been a fan of combo parties especially because my three girls all have summer birthdays and are so close in age.  I think it’s only been in the last year that I’ve felt I can no longer get away with it-my teenager won’t let me!!  This party is obviously from a few years ago but I recently found my pictures from it.  (Gotta love when your computer crashes!)
Hope you enjoy my girls’ Ice Cream Parlor themed birthday party!
Ice Cream Parlor Birthday Party and Baby Shower

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