Maia's Sweet 16 / Camille's baby shower

Confession # 342 :  I moonlight as a Party/ Event planner

(BTW - I am kidding about this being my 342nd confession. I have no idea what # confession I am at and am too tired to look back through this blog to find out! LOL)

Okay, so it's been a whirl wind couple of months. On the heels of my sister's baby shower, and my daughter's 3rd birthday, I was suddenly also planning and hosting my cousin's sweet 16 party and our youth pastor's baby shower.

It's been a crazy month! I've loved it and hated it all at once. Truthfully, I wish I could make a go of it (being a party/ event planner that is) . I'm pretty good at it, and I love doing it, but it's also exhausting and in between taking care of my family and running my 3 kids around to their various activities, and working at 52 + hour work week with my home daycare, I just don't have the time for it.

In order to make any money at it, it would take some real business planning and streamlining before it would be a profitable business, and I'd be re-couping any where near the time and effort it takes to create and execute these events.  So people keep asking me to do them and it's soooo tempting because I love it.
But right now, I'm just about run off my feet trying to do all these things and maintain a family and household.

Okay - another confession. In talking to someone at what I promised my husband would be my LAST event, I sort of somehow got talked into helping out with the decorations for another event. But at least with this one, I'm not planning or hosting the event. I'm just doing some decorations.  That's all.  I just haven't told the DH yet.  He won't be pleased.  But the thought of not having anything to do in the next little while is just painful. :)

So that's it for today. My family has been suffering from the stomach flu and I'm completely sleep deprived, but I'm posting the photos from the last two events that I made the decos for and hosted.
Enjoy!

Maia's Sweet 16 Party:

P.S. On a off - note can anyone reccommend a blog that is a little more user friendly for posting and manipulating photos? This one ROTS. I'm so frustrated with trying, usually half -way through I give up on trying to make it look the way I want it to. I'm willing to switch.... anyone?