Babies & Toddlers: We Love the Littlest!

Today, Peter and I had a really fun opportunity to bring A Sweet Event to the Baby & Toddler Expo at the Miller Hill Mall in Duluth. Through various events, marketing, and partnerships, we've grown to love working with the mall's team.

The mall's not only been fantastic to us as business owners, but the good Lord knows we spend enough time there as a family. Especially during the long Minnesota winters. You can definitely often find us at Barnes & Noble at the train table or Lego table among other places. We also have some vending accounts there.

Needless to say we were very excited to participate in their Baby & Toddler Expo, which is designed specifically to provide information, products, and services to parents of the littlest of the littles. We are just getting out of the baby & toddler life with Clara, and Logan is definitely in toddler stage, maybe even in baby stage depending on the level of denial I'm experiencing on that particular day.

So we really resonate and identify with parents of the littlest. We are still in the throes of diapers, sippy cups, midday naps, car seat safety, and sticky hands. We know life can go from pure joy to pure irritation in a blink of an eye. We know as parents of the littlest that your kids will never need you more than they need you at the baby and toddler stage, and we are soaking it all in. What else are you going to do? Sleep? (Cue hearty laugh from other littlest parents.)

Our candy buffet service is the chief service we are most excited to bring to these parents. One mom said it best to us at our table today, "So, I can just hire you guys, and you make it look like I spent hours on Pinterest for my kid's birthday party?" Yeah. That's exactly the idea.

Because really, if you have a baby or a toddler, who has time for that? It's a miracle to get a shower or cook a meal at home. Don't let Pinterest make you feel inadequate as a party planner for your kid again. We reject you, Pinterest! (I'm just kidding. Look at you, Pinterest, with all your tasty recipes and vintage farmhouse decor ideas, I can't stay mad at you.)

But really, as parents who are half in, half out of this stage, we get it. We know you want to throw your child an amazing birthday party that pictures will tell of your love and devotion for years to come, but you can't even remember what year it is when you write a check. Our themed candy buffets aim to take all of the work out of it for you. We do all the Pinterest-worthy work for your party, and maybe that leaves you with enough time to actually sit down and eat a meal. Maybe.

Thanks to Pretty Princess Parties for making our candy buffets EXTRA Pinterest worthy!

We loved the chance to meet many of you at the Expo today! The cupcake vending machine was another big hit of the day.

If you didn't get a chance to stop by and say hi, here's a few pictures of our booth. As usual, Peter and I had a great day working side by side, and my mom and dad were great enough to take the kiddos for us today so we could both be there.

Next month, we are also going to be meeting with our good friends at Pretty Princess Parties and Diamond MC Entertainment to start work on a new event for the area we know you will love. Make sure to keep up with us on the blog, on A Sweet Event Facebook, and with the Pretty Princesses for lots of forthcoming details!

Introducing our Super Hero Candy Buffet!

Peter and I feel tremendously blessed. We have a sweet, princessy (definition: little girl who loves all things princess) little girl. We also have our rough and tumble boy.

Getting to experience both genders as they grow has been a true joy in our family. This joy has spilled over into our business. We had a lot of fun putting together a Frozen candy buffet, for example, inspired completely by our own little princess and her love of that movie.

We've explored some other themed candy buffets for various events as well, and had a ton of fun. One theme we hadn't explored much until now, was a theme specifically for boys.

Enter the Super Hero candy buffet.

My tremendously talented husband put it all together, and we are really thrilled to introduce it to you. It includes: Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman.

What other themes would you like to see in our candy buffets? Be sure to let us know!

Lots of Updates!!!

So many exciting things have been happening in our business and in our family! We've been so busy, I haven't had much time to update the blog! So here are the most recent happenings with our family and our business

Pretty Princess Tea Party

We had a unique opportunity to participate in the Welcome Spring Pretty Princess Tea Party at the Greysolon Plaza on April 6th. We are really enjoying our new semi-partnership with Pretty Princess Parties and they really do an amazing job with all of the little girls they meet.

Clara had an absolute ball at the tea party with me as she absolutely adores the Disney Princess. Frozen is the movie particularly hot in our house right now, and daddy got to be there too since he was doing the candy buffet for the event! Here are a few of the pictures from the party.

Here are some pictures of the princess candy buffet for all of the little princesses at the party.

Clara Turns Four!

A few weeks later, Clara had her fourth birthday. Hard to believe! 

We are so thankful for Clara. She is funny and thoughtful and smart and talented, not to mention beautiful. We enjoy all of the emerging aspects of her personality and who God is creating her to be. We threw her a party a few days later and Pretty Princess Parties was kind enough to show up with TWO princesses from Frozen. Clara was surprised and delighted and they did an amazing job with the kids at the party, I can't recommend this company enough if your daughter loves princesses. And of course, there was a Frozen candy buffet!

Events Around Town

We've also kept plenty busy with events for our business. We've done several candy buffets and the cupcake vending machine had it's first official event in the Twin Ports today at WITC. We also created a "Junior" version of the cupcake vending machine for smaller parties and events.

As a family, we are keeping extremely busy. Peter went down a day at Bridgeman's this month to focus more on the family business, God is continuing to grow this business by leaps and bounds, it's been really fun to be a part of all of these special events taking place right here in our community. I have no shortage of work either with my marketing job, which I do from home. God has truly orchestrated the right jobs for us at the right time. Peter and I are both extremely blessed to have jobs where we work for great Christian people, who we really LOVE working for. We enjoy our jobs and we enjoy our business and all the places God is taking our family.

Stay tuned for the Mall My Love event we are excited to be apart of coming up in June!