here piggy, piggy

every year for the last three years we’ve done an end-of-summer pig roast, hosted at my parents’ house.

and every year i take a ton of photos, intending to put some up here and share the details and invites.

and every year…i don’t.

well let’s change that. i’m currently working on the invites for this—our 4th annual pig roast. who wants a free printable invite?

or maybe you’d like last year’s invite…

(it read: “this little piggy went to THE yourlastname’s”…and the date/time info was one line right above “please bring a covered dish”)

r i g h t  c l i c k  and save that trash for your own piggy roasting adventures.
with love, from the momma to you.

(all fonts/graphics from free sources, including but not limited to: the graphics fairy, dafont)

now, who wants to indulge me by looking at some photos of years past? coughcough i gave you a free printable invite coughcough.

you doooo? aw. how sweet. ;)

the formula for an memory-making pig roast is simple: TONS of food + TONS of friends + games and prizes for the kids + marshmallows + bonfire to end the night.

oh. and a pig.

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that year they put an apple in the pig’s mouth. i’ll spare you those photos.

i must have been hungry that year. most of my pictures are of the food.

babies! who aren’t babies anymore! :(

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here’s the awesome thing about this picture: little miss emma there with the disgusted look? she’s not pushing away the gross pig. she’s reaching out for a piece of meat.

this was hands down my favorite photo: gigi, age 2, and emma from above, watch as the men start carving up the pig.

my baby was a baby. and my brother was a hipster.

the kiddos made foam hats that year—a blanket with thousands of foam stickers and markers and a hat for everyone. you would have thought they hit the jackpot.

and we end the night with a bonfire.

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do you see how many tables of food there were last year?????

boys. ugh.

you may recognize this little nugget…

the important thing is always having the right tool for the job.

so there it is. one large-ish post covering all three prior pig roasts. #4 coming soon.

or do you prefer tea? {free printable}

so we kept a theme for mom + dad’s anniversary present this year: a cake printable for mom, framed and ready for hanging in her kitchen; and for dad—a printable framed and ready for his office.

this one is a c.s. lewis quote—and it fits him to a ‘t’ (you see what i did there, right?)

just like yesterday’s, this uses free fonts from dafont, and the teacup graphics are from the graphics fairy.

and bonus! i actually made two. the watermark style teacup was the first one i made, but we ended up going with the second version with a teacup on either side. but both are here for your enjoyment.

no photo of the finished framed print…because when i got my camera out dad already had his picture out in the car. i’d say he likes it.

x’s and o’s ;)

right click and save to your computer. should go up to an 8x10 just fine.
free to you, love me. but probably don’t sell it on etsy. unless you’re gonna send me the money, then that’s cool.

fonts from dafont, image from the graphics fairy here

like cake? {free printable}

i guess at a certain point in your life there’s not much more ‘stuff’ you need. when you’ve been married 20 or 30 or 38 years, well…you’ve basically got it all covered.

which makes it incredibly, extremely difficult for your children to buy you an anniversary present.

for 3 weeks, off and on, my brother and sister-in-law and i would send out group texts: what are we getting mom and dad????
everything from the insanely complicated (build a pergola over the deck) to the overly simple (just take them out to dinner).

in the end we made dinner at our house for them, and settled on a gift that went over really well: family pictures, made into a book (thank you target one hour print!), a large framed family picture for the wall, and then a printed quote for each of them.

if you know my mother, you know how much this. is. HER.

love that julia child.

i initially saw this beautiful chalkboard quote done by etsy seller lily & val. it’s gorgeous. like seriously i-could-spend-a-small-fortune BUY ALL THE THINGS type gorgeous. but…yesterday’s post. yeah.
plus my mom’s 1/2 jewish blood would boil and froth over if she knew we spent $20+ for it. true story.

so i made my own, using fonts from dafont and the cake image is from the graphics fairy. which means i can offer it to you as a free printable. woo-hoo!

right click and save to your computer. should go up to an 8x10 just fine.
free to you, love me. but probably don’t sell it on etsy. unless you’re gonna send me the money, then that’s cool.

fonts from dafont, image from the graphics fairy here

last thought: if you printed this out on card stock, it would be super cool to do a light watercolor wash over the cake part in a color to match your kitchen. how awesome would it be in pink?
enjoy!