Sam And His Sock Monkeys

Sammy turned one this year! We of course had to help him celebrate in fashion. Jenny threw him a very cute sock monkey themed birthday party. Bethy had the most adorable photo shoot with him before hand so that all the pictures could be displayed at the party, here are some of my favorites ...

The party was so fun! Sock monkeys are such a cute theme, all the decorations were so cute. jenny did a fabulous job on his cake, she made her own fondant and everything. (All of the pictures in this post are curtesy of Bethany Madison.)

Bethy crocheted THE CUTEST sock monkey hats for each of the griffin kids, they turned out so well! The kids look too cute in them.

We were all curious to see how Sam would react to the smash cake, all the other grand kids were pretty timid. But sammy did a great job, he just got right in there and enjoyed the oppurtunity to eat all the cake and frosting he wanted without being stopped.

Nora was so cute and made all of these drawings for sam as his birthday present, she was so excited to give it to him, she made sure it was the first present opened.

I found these slippers at Target and I just couldn't pass them up, they fit the theme all too well. So I gave them to Jens as a thank you for being such a fun mom and inviting us to the best birthday bashes.

The kids always get a little silly towards the end of a fun filled party

Tulipmania

I am happy to report that I made it out to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point this year. I need to take advantage of the benefits I get from being a TPI employee, one being I get into all the venues for free. The festival was amazing, they did a wonderful job at making the gardens look stunning. I loved seeing all the different kinds of tulips they had planted, I had no idea there were so many different types of tulips.

I also loved all the spring blossoms that were blooming on all the trees throughout the gardens. Spring blossoms are one of my favorite things in the whole world, I will never get enough of them.

This was also my first trip to the secret garden, the Thanksgiving Point Gardens has 11 themed gardens within their 55 acres of gorgeous garden, the secret garden is probably one of the most visited. When I first started working at Thanksgiving Point one of the security gaurds told me that most of the engagments that happen on property happen in the secret garden haha. It is a pretty magical place, I will need to go back in the summer when everything is in full bloom.

random picture but I thought it was kinda cool, this is why I love having my own blog, I can do what I want with it hahaha.