Hawaiian BBQ

Two weekends ago we had a BBQ for local friends and family who helped us so tremendously make our wedding a success last year. Here are a few pics from the event.

julie & ruben

Whew! After an exhausting four days, the flowers survived the heat and finally made it to Skamania. The wedding was nothing short of perfect. My house looks like a bull ran a florist's shop through it, and I am spent. Here's one favorite shot, because that's about all I can muster at the moment. It was a gratifying experience, though I never thought I'd be glad to sit at a desk today!

a basket full of sunshine

A couple of my dearest friends are going through some pretty rough times right now. When I saw this pin on pinterest I was inspired to create a couple of baskets to send to them. (Link to original idea)

Here's a sampling of what you can put in them. Have fun shopping around, it's easy to fill them up; and not everything has to be yellow.

confetti cake mix

frosting

sprinkles

cupcake gems

cupcake baking cups

yellow butterfly cookie cutter

Trefoils Girl Scout cookies

Peeps

Lindt chocolates

milk chocolate raisins

candy coated sunflower seeds

banana chips

Myntz!

lemonheads

Piroulines

mixed teas in yellow hues

yellow dinner plate dahlia

yellow gladiolus

Little Miss Sunshine DVD

Milk Protein & Honey Softsoap

vanilla jar candle

yellow star post-it notes

lemon verbena soap

bath sponge

bath pouf

hand lotion

gold glitter nail polish

Arrange your items on a bed of shredded yellow paper and yellow cellophane easter grass and you're done!

For the cards I wrote the message in Pages and printed onto cardstock. I placed a blob of glue from a liquid glue tube on the paper and covered it with yellow glitter. A note on the glue: I tried a glue stick first, but liquid glue gave me a more defined circular blob that looks more like a sun.

Voila. A burst of sunshine for your dearest friends. :)