LoveBug Valentine’s Dinner

Back in February, Bon Chef Cafe and Little Posh Parties joined forces to put together a little Valentine’s Day dinner. The idea was that you can take your children with you to a family Valentine’s dinner. Our event was so much fun! And if you’re a parent in Las Vegas to little ones, be sure to check out Bon Chef Cafe. There is a cute little kids corner in the restaurant!

Thank you to DragonFly Portrait Design for taking photos, the Wood Connection for providing the centerpieces and crafts, and Peridot Sweets for the adorable cookie favors.

 

Twinkled Pink Tea

During the holidays, we put together a holiday tea party for little girls. We chose a light pink and gold color scheme so Tiffany from Peridot Sweets thought of the adorable name, “Twinkled Pink Tea“. It was perfect!

The moms and little girls enjoyed delicious tea sandwiches, scones, tea, and salad which were provided by Dane from Simple Elegance. During the meal, we had Christmas carolers – a quartet – from a local high school! It was a nice little treat!

All of the cute desserts and cake pop favors were provided by Peridot Sweets. Tiffany was also a big help in putting this event together since we collaborated on all of the ideas and overall design! I can’t thank her enough!

And, we can’t have a fancy tea party without fine China. So, Dirty Dishes, a vintage dish rental company provided all of the beautiful tea pots, tea cups, plates and flatware. We also wanted a beautiful printed menu on top of the plates so I reached out to Paper and Home and asked Brooke to design a round menu.  I think everything came together beautifully and the girls and moms really enjoyed this experience!

Thank you so much to Jeniffer LaRocca for taking these beautiful photos.

Thank you so much to my sister, Angelica, and Ashley for all of their assistance with set up and serving our guests!

Photography: Jeniffer LaRocca

Party Planning, Centerpieces, Napkins and Decor: Little Posh Parties
Desserts, Hot Chocolate, Favors: Peridot Sweets
Tea Sandwiches, Scones, Tea: Simple Elegance
Vintage Dish Rentals: Dirty Dishes
Printed Menus: Paper and Home
Table Linen: Rebel Party Rentals

Pregnancy Announcements

Pregnant women are getting extremely creative with their pregnancy announcements to friends and family. I’m surrounded by friends who have recently posted really creative pregnancy announcements on Facebook. One of my friends even created a really funny video! I love the below photos of some cute ideas.

If you’re pregnant or recently had a baby, did you announce your pregnancy in a creative way?

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Source: PB&J Stories

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Christmas pregnancy announcement: Source

 

LoveBug Dinner – Valentine’s Day Family Dinner

Bon Chef Cafe and Little Posh Parties are teaming up for a little Valentine’s day family dinner. Enjoy a lovely meal at Bon Chef Cafe with your kids!

Location: Bon Chef Cafe
Address: 10720 S. Eastern Ave. Henderson, NV 89052
Date/Time: Friday February 15th, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Attire: Red, Black, White

The evening will include:

  • 4 Course Dinner + Kid-Friendly Meal
  • Kid’s Valentine Craft by Wood Connection
  • Professional Family Photograph Opportunity through Dragonfly Portrait Design
  • Take-home Valentine’s Favor
  • Dancing Optional / Memories Guaranteed

To Purchase Tickets, Go To:
www.littleposhparties.com – see right hand side right under the search bar
www.bonchefcafe.com

Adults: $28/each
Children: $15/each
Tickets must be purchased ahead of time and will be available only through 02/11/2013

Gender Reveal Parties

Gender reveal parties are getting more and more common these days and couples are planning really fun and creative ways to celebrate the occasion with their loved ones. I personally opted to find out the news and share that special moment with only my husband and would not have changed that experience for anything. But an alternative to the gender reveal party could have been to find out together in private and then revealed it to close friends and family in the form of a party like the below examples. Any excuse for a party, right?

Anyway, I found some fun parties around the web and they’re not all pink and blue! I’m a bit infatuated with the New Year’s Eve party.

Image source: Party stylist Kim Stoegbauer of The TomKat Studio for Pottery Barn Kids

Black and Gold Gender Reveal Party photo credit: Jasmine at IDEA! event + style via Pizzazzerie

New Year’s Eve Gender Reveal Party photo credit: Indianapoluxe (the Mommy to be) via Hostess Blog

Game On gender reveal party: Graphic Design/Styling: Modern Moments Designs; Photography: Courtney Jade Photography; Girl & Boy Buttons: Paging Super Mom via Hostess Blog

Yellow Gender Reveal Party: Planning and Design by Erin Suarez via On To Baby

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! Here’s to a prosperous and healthy new year! Cheers!

How do you plan on celebrating with your kids? I think we plan on celebrating on east coast time – drinking sparkling cider (Champagne for me) and probably banging on pots and pans when the clock strikes midnight!

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Spotlight on Enchanted Encounters

Today, I wanted to introduce Enchanted Encounters. I met Lisa Coruzzi by chance at a recent Project Dinner Table event at the Smith Center. My bride for next February works for Gaia Flowers and she extended an invitation to me.  I was thrilled to be able to join her. Lisa knows my bride from Gaia Flowers so I met her that evening!

Below is Lisa’s story and how she came to developing the idea for Enchanted Encounters.

Enchanted Encounters is a brand new cause in Las Vegas, aiming to become a full-blown non-profit organization upon the expansion of more Princesses and experience. It was created by local students Lisa Coruzzi and Saliha Lezha in October 2012.
Saliha and I have known each other for a few years and have grown very close. We share an interest and love for Disney and the overall idea of fairytales. We began recognizing physical similarities in each other’s features to Disney Princesses Belle (Beauty and the Beast) and Snow White, granting each other the nicknames “Belle” and “Snow.” We even began discovering more and more similarities we have with our Princesses, not just physically (ie My admiration of books and French culture, and Saliha’s love for snow).
As a result, I grew closely tied emotionally with Princess Belle, as did Saliha, and I began expressing interest in impersonating Belle for Disneyland one day (mostly for the glitz of being able to dress up like Belle). Upon researching how to get a job with Disney, I came across many videos of young children visiting with Belle there. Watching these videos made me realize that there is a lot more to these Princesses than a pretty face and a beautiful gown. To children, Princesses are the epitome of hope, fantasy, imagination, love, bliss, beauty, etiquette, magic and more. To adults, children are the closest thing we’ve got in this sinful world to all of these things. Seeing these children light up with joy upon visiting the Princesses sparked something inside of me, especially when I came across a video of a little girl who initially appeared to have had little-to-no hair on her head. It made me think to myself, “wow, imagine all the little girls out there who wish nothing more but to meet these Princesses”. It’s a common dream among them. Anything Disney related, for that matter, is likely to be included in any (possibly, final) wishes of sick children. This notion tugged at my heart, and made me want to work for Disney even more! But when I shared a photo of this young girl with Belle to Saliha captioned “I wanna be these babies’ hero,” Saliha came up with the idea of doing it locally here in Vegas- by going to the sick children here. A commonality among sick children undergoing treatment is their financial instability, and proneness to germs that prevent them from going out much. With Saliha’s suggestion, however, we can bring Disney to THEM! Luckily, we were blessed with a local seamstress, Cathie France (Custom Gowns by Cathie) who helped us out A LOT and provided us with our beautiful gowns, essentially putting it all together (such customized gowns usually run close to $1,000).
Our motto is “Everyone Deserves a fairtytale.” We wish to bring fairytales and dream come-trues into the lives of these children.
Having made quite a few visits now, I can assure you that these children give more to me than I do them. Their hugs, smiles and laughter have given me all new reason to get out of bed every morning, and have made a huge impact on my life.

To schedule Belle and Snow White at an upcoming event, please send a detailed request, including cause/organization name and benefit, to BelleandSnow@yahoo.com. Their services are 100% non-profit.

Photographer Spotlight: Jeniffer LaRocca Photography

Because of my line of work as a wedding and party planner, I’m so blessed to have many photographer friends in my life. I’ve known Jeniffer LaRocca for quite some time now. We’ve worked plenty of weddings together while she was working for Digs Studio.

When Jeniffer branched off on her own, she reached out to me to help spread the word. We decided to do my daughter’s first birthday portraits with Jeniffer and it was one of the best decisions I’ve made. We chose UNLV as the setting since we’re UNLV alumni and I really wasn’t interested in desert or park photos. Jeniffer is absolutely AMAZING with children. My daughter is shy and doesn’t smile for photos often and Jeniffer was able to capture so many beautiful photos that I will cherish for a lifetime.

Be on the lookout for our feature on our Twinkled Pink Tea. Jeniffer was our official event photographer!

Check out Jeniffer on Facebook.
website: Jeniffer LaRocca Photography

The Ice Rink at BLVD Social Club

I love ice skating. I think it’s beautiful, it’s relaxing, and it really makes me feel like we’re in the middle of the holidays. To me, ice skating and the holidays go hand in hand. Kind of like hot cocoa and s’mores.

I read about the Cosmopolitan building an ice rink awhile back and really wanted to go. When YELP put together an event, I decided to take my daughter to it! I rarely venture out to the Strip on a Friday night, much less with my two year old daughter but I just couldn’t pass up this opportunity. When we arrived that night, I was unsure about whether or not we would skate especially since my toddler has never tried it before! But, once we saw the orange seals available for rent, we knew we had to go! It had been a particularly rough week for me and it’s amazing how skating on that ice with the view of the Las Vegas Strip just melted all of my stress away. My daughter also enjoyed it so much and it was tough finally getting her off the ice.

On my second visit, I met a friend there with her three year old daughter while they were visiting from California and we decided to try the tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich. It was THE most delicious grilled cheese and tomato soup combo I’ve ever tasted. We also indulged in some marshmallow roasting at the nearby fire pit and made s’mores. It was such a fun experience being able to skate and enjoy these treats with our daughters.

Those who cannot or choose not to skate can still have a good time there. There are plenty of picnic tables for lounging, a full bar, a delicious menu, hot cocoa, and that fire pit I mentioned. Oh, and they have a signature cocktail named The Campfire Delight which consists of toasted marshmallow syrup, chocolate and rum.

If you haven’t been there, please visit before they close the rink mid January.

Pricing:
Skate Rental: $5.
An all-day skate pass: $15 ($10 for locals).
Seal scooters (parents can push their children on these): $5 per rental.
Admission to the area surrounding The Ice Rink is free.

Photos By: Denise Truscell. Taken from the Cosmopolitan Facebook page

Tiny Prints Christmas

Family Friendly Restaurant: Bon Chef Cafe

A friend recently told me about Bon Chef Cafe, a new restaurant that opened up in our neighborhood in Henderson that caters to families with young children. It is family owned and operated and is a very cozy yet spacious restaurant. I spoke to one of the owners recently who mentioned that they wanted to create a family friendly restaurant with a play area because they remembered how stressful it was to dine in restaurants when their children were little.

While I admit that we don’t have a tough time like some other parents of toddlers (we’ve been taking her to nice restaurants since she was an infant and she LOVES to eat), it’s nice to have a restaurant around the corner for when I don’t feel like cooking and cleaning and my daughter is just a bit crankier than usual. The only down side for us is that she doesn’t eat as much when she’s there because she loves the play area!

Bon Chef Cafe is also available for catering as well as holiday dinner-to-go options!

Tiny Prints Christmas

Polar Express Train Ride

A few weeks ago, my sister and I along with our husbands and kids took a road trip to Williams, Arizona to board the Polar Express Train. The Grand Canyon Railway’s Polar Express is based on the classic children’s book. The one hour train ride took us on a journey to the “North Pole”. We were served hot chocolate and cookies while listening to the story. At the end of the journey, Santa Claus was there to greet us!

The train leaves each night at 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. For more details on ticket prices and to book your train ride, please visit their website.

The TomKat Studio Holiday Gift Guide

I look forward to checking out The TomKat Studio Holiday Gift Guide every year. Curated by industry trendsetters such as Jennifer Sbranti from Hostess with the Mostess, Angie from Bakerella, Kate from Kate Landers Events, and Amy Atlas to name a few, the guide is filled with recipes, tutorials, printables, and of course, gifts. It is such a useful tool during the holidays to help save time and stress.

Check out the TomKat Studio Holiday Gift Guide here.

Isn’t the cover so beautiful and adorable?

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Disney’s On Ice Dare To Dream

I’m so thrilled to be able to take my daughter to Disney On Ice: Dare To Dream in January! The show will run from January 16 – January 20 at the Thomas and Mack Center. Children ages two and older must have a ticket.

Here’s a synopsis:

Get tangled up in the newest thrilling show to hit the ice, Disney On Ice presents Dare to Dream. Experience Disney’s hilarious hair-raising escapade, Tangled; as Rapunzel, her unlikely companion, Flynn, and Maximus, embark on an uproarious journey that takes adventure to new lengths!  Boogie to the beat of the bayou with Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen from The Princess and the Frog, in a magical, musical journey that all begins with a fateful kiss.  And fanciful dreams become reality as Cinderella meets her Prince Charming, with a glass slipper fit for an unforgettable fantasy come true.  All your favorite princesses take to the ice in a spectacular finale at the ultimate Disney Princess event of a lifetime!  Experience the beauty, sparkle, and spirit when Disney On Ice presents Dare to Dream comes to your hometown!

For tickets, head over to this link!

If you’ve seen a Disney On Ice show, please comment below and let us know which one you’ve seen. We’d love to hear from you!

 

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