Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

mama, happy birthday.

my mom. early 1960's

happy, happy birthday to my beautiful mother.
today you start another lap around the sun, another chapter added to the wonderful life you've had so far. you are an exceptional woman and deserve the world today. 
here's to many more years and celebrations to come,
i love you, admire you, and respect you and the brilliant mama you are. i couldn't ask for anything more.

feliz cumpleanos,
your daughter
HEJ










Thursday, September 8, 2011

cocktails, crafts, and cupcakes!

A few weeks ago, on my birthday actually, I opted to have some girlfriends over for a cocktails and crafts night, with a side of cupcakes.
I got the idea from Becky, over at Rub Some Dirt On It who has ongoing cocktail and craft afternoons with her friends and their children. Even though I'm missing the whole "children" part of that activity, I knew it could still be fun since I'm crafty and so are my friends.

I kept working on my scrapbook from this last year in Germany, while the others had projects of their own.
Here are some of my favorite pages:
 my little mister who I miss dearly.

 the front page.
I have a ton of scrapbooking supplies. Honestly, enough to fill an entire craft room.
Unfortunately though, I don't have room for a craft room and probably wont until I own my own home but, it's okay...it'll be worth it...

tons of tokens from Germany, and lots of embellishments to go with it.
I'm a serious craft nerd. Like, fo' realz.


We wined and dined on fancy cupcakes, Trader Joe's yummy appetizers, Cupcake label Chardonnay [new favorite], Mike's hard PINK lemonade [so very girly; love], and it wouldn't be a complete Hayley event without margaritas.
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I can definitely see this becoming a tradition, not just for birthdays, for regular girls' nights' in. For my first go around, it was a success but next time I would love to go all out with decoration and take more photos of everyone and their projects with my camera instead of iphone.
Nevertheless, I love cocktails + crafts nights.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

oma's geburtstag

that's "grandma's birthday" for all of you non deutsch speakers...


we all met at a very kid friendly restaurant.
and when i say 'we' i am of course referring to dani, wolfgang, esra, elias, cajus, oma rita, opa fritz, oma edith, opa gunther, tante ruth, & onkel dieter.


 scenes from a german brunch.
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the place had this amazing set up outside of jungle gym equipment.
it was a mix of a local neighborhood park, and a small theme park.
no joke.






i tried to capture all of the coolness, however, i think i failed.
there were bumper cars, slides, an airplane jungle gym, electronic swings, regular swings, a soccer, field, and a ton of other cool things that almost made me wish i was a kid again.
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i did manage to get some great portraits of the boys though:


the sky provided an awesome backdrop, plane and all.
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ready?

set?

fly!
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some other favorites form the past few days:



love me some holga + lomo filters.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

a golden birthday...

we've got a lot going on this month.
first up:
esra and elias turned 10 on the 10th
and celebrated with an olympic themed birthday party


we of course started with the opening ceremonies
with germany, serbia, poland, thailand,
south africa, italy, and albania all represented

they battled in ice hockey:

maneuvered a bobsled race:

and competed in figure skating
[all performed to a lady gaga song]

watching a group of 10 year old boys pretend to figure skate to lady gaga
was one of the funniest things i have ever seen.
they were awesome.
wolfgang, cousin jana and i were the judges
and it was difficult to not give them all perfect scores.
during one performance, i think elias', to "Love Game"
the audience of boys were pelvic thrusting so hard and shakin' it to:
"let's have some fun this beat is sick, i wanna take a ride on your disco stick..."
[of course having no idea what that means]
and you could not help but crack up.
fun stuff. for reals
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happy birthday esra and elias
i'm so glad i know the coolest 10 year olds in the world

Monday, November 8, 2010

more halloween+ a birthday!

::this boy has officially been 3 since the 1st::
esra and elias
[skeletons]
with friends ready to go trick-or-treating

and another little monster!
photos are wolfgang's.
awesome, huh?!

Saturday, September 11, 2010

this p-nut...

is THREE years old
today

happy birthday little J man
love,
haynuuuh

Friday, September 3, 2010

birthday weekend...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
to
ME
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august 27th, 2010
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so to celebrate my geburstag, [that's german for birthday]
eric came to visit for the weekend from hamburg
and we went out to a club with dani and wolfgang
zulle and helge
and 2 of my new friends
tobi and marie
marie+eric+me+zulle
yay for being 21!
they didn't even card me ;)
tobi+marie+me+eric

i had a great time
got some amazing gifts, like...
the most recent sookie stackhouse novel from mom
a journal and picture frame from dad and kate
art supplies and handmade slipper socks from Oma and Opa
and a trip to AMSTERDAM with eric
from dani and wolfgang!
i am so, so, so
EXCITED

surprisingly my hang over wasn't too bad...
however, i did look like this the next day
glorious
isn't it?