Party On!

We just celebrated Mollie and Brett's birthdays, with very different celebrations. For Mollie we had a "Fancy Nancy"-esque tea partyWe invited 2 of her little friends to come and bring their moms

of course they had to wear their fanciest attire!

Here's the group sitting down to "tea" (little sandwiches, fruit & pink lemonade)

we played a fun dress up game, where everyone won a tu-tu

these were the goody bags, filled with hair clips nail polish and sunglasses

fancy place settings (Grandma B made the butterfly placemats)

doesn't the table look nice? what yummy cupcakes!Daddy's celebration was quite a bit different. He had 2 special dinners and here he is blowing out the candles on his pumpkin cake. Madi was a great little helper!

Hallo-week

Last week was great. We packed all kinds of Halloween festivities into the week, including the acquisition of dumptruck loads of candy. I think we'll be working on this candy for years! Some of the fun activities included... (warning, there are a ton of pictures in this post)a fun Halloween dinner with Vampire blood, apple bites and of course

Mummy dogs!

a playgroup costume party complete with trick-or-treating

cookie decorating and delivering

Madi even got in on the frosting fun!

spooky story time

here are the kids in all their finery: a cheerleader, a clone trooper and Jessie the yodeling cowgirl (if this costume looks familiar, you're right! I made a red yarn wig to change it up a little, but she wouldn't wear it. boo hoo.)

They had a great time trick-or-treating in our neighborhood, then we headed over to the church for some trunk-or-treating action. Madi loved putting the candy in her little bag and wouldn't move on until it was safely secured. So funny!

Just in case you needed more, here's another cute picture of my little monsters! Hey, did I mention that Kody won a costume contest at a little festival we went to? I'm glad, because Grandma B and I worked real hard on getting his costume just right. What was the prize you ask? More candy! I hope you all had a great Halloween, because we did!