Great (playdate/party) day

Fisher-Price and HouseParty have a new fan in me.

I signed up with HouseParty a couple months back after being invited to a Pull-Ups party and one day I noticed via their Facebook or Twitter that they were offering a Fisher-Price Playdate Party for this past Saturday. I quickly applied and when it was announced that the hosts were chosen (I think there were 5K chosen across the States), I quickly logged into my HouseParty account and was beyond shocked to see that I was one of the 5K chosen.

Me. Hosting a party?

I love having people over, but just don't ever do it much at all because I'm kind of like Aly Sheedy's character in The Breakfast Club.

But I:

• invited some folk with kids and told them over and over again that I would not be selling anything, they would not be buying anything
• got a huge box from Fisher-Price and HouseParty full of some of the coolest toys
• unboxed everything (and made a badass Clubhouse for Lovie with the box)
• put the toys together
• rearranged the living room
• baked cookies
• and had a kick-butt party on Saturday

As the good old Fresh Beats would say, It was a great day!

TILTW: 9.8-9.14

~ Fisher Price toys rock.

~ I want to be a toy designer. How much fun must that job be?!

~ Whoever designed this is a genius.

~ Teaching your tot to cough and sneeze into their arm is no easy task.



I'm not being paid by Fisher Price to write this post. I signed up with HouseParty and applied to be a Fisher Price Playdate Host and was accepted. In exchange for hosting this party, Fisher Price sent me a box full of toys for us to play with (and keep!!). It's been an amazing couple of weeks and I'm so very much looking forward to September 22nd when we finally have our party.

TILTW: 9.1-9.7

* Turning 40 (yesterday)? Aint so bad! : ) Flowers from the hubs arrived just before I left work for the day, flowers from my BFF/cousin and a plant from my momma arrived later in the day so that when I came in to work this morning, the celebration continued. The hubs and Lovie made, from scratch, molten lava cake and sang me Happy Birthday while I wore a princess crown Lovie made.

* I'm hosting a Fisher-Price Playdate Party and am getting damn excited. I received notice that two boxes shipped early in the week and last night, on my birthday, one of the boxes arrived: goodies to be given away to my guests!! Now I just wait on the the box of goods with the toys that we'll be playing with (big ticket toys like this, this, and this which Lovie will flip over) and that we get to keep! What's the catch? A) I'm blogging about it, right? B) I'm so damn excited about it and am constantly talking about it. C) I've got like 12 kids coming to the house to play play play! Word of mouth can be a very powerful tool.