How can it be time for my baby to turn 3?? I promise you, I just had him yesterday! I mean, I’m still carrying those last 10 pounds of baby weight (ok, maybe 20 pounds) and surely if he was really turning 3 I would have lost it already, right? Sorry, I digress…
My entire life I wanted a family. I always pictured myself with 3 or 4 kids and then life happened, and as it tends to do, it hasn’t ended up how I pictured.
I married my amazing husband, Coach, in 2010 and we started trying right away, but God has a different plan for us.
Maximus came into our life first during his junior year of high school. He was not what we had expected, but he enriches our lives more than words can express and watching him blossom into the man he is today, is a gift like none other.
After lots of fertility treatments, many miscarriages and more heartache than I care to remember, we were blessed again with our beautiful, perfect, independent, ornery, sociable and lovely little boy. Now he is turning 3 in a month!
Coach is from a small town in Kansas and Lil Hatt loves being on the farm with the animals and crops when we are back home visiting. 
We planted a garden for the first time this year in our back yard and he has so much fun watching it grow, watering it and learning where our food comes from. 
So I decided on a Farm/Farmers Market theme for his party. I must preface anything else I say with this: I AM NOT CRAFTY IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM. What I am good at is research, copying and adding my flare to other people’s amazing, hard thought and planned ideas. So that is what I will share with you so you can take my research and copy my ideas and add your flare and voila’!
I always start with the theme and then I research on Etsy and Pinterest. I have to pause and say that Etsy and Pinterest are overwhelming and nerve-racking for me as there is so much to sort through and many ideas to take in. So this process can take a few weeks as I often need time to digest and process all of the amazing things I find on both sites. Once I narrow down the theme, I start in on the invitations and décor. I found all of these fun props at Nebraska Furniture Mart, which in and of itself is very similar to Etsy and Pinterest, awesome yet overwhelming!
We had to go there to buy a new breakfast table because this happened when I was cooling my ice cream bases. Just an FYI, you cannot put hot items on a glass table without mitts and expect it to survive…
I can not wait to put all of these adorable items together to create a Farmers Market wonderland (ok, wonderland is a bit extravagant, but it is what I am aspiring to achieve!). I’m working on the invitation now and next comes the menu. I’ll post on both of those updates soon! Pray for me that I don’t fall into the overwhelmed abyss!!!
Love,
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