Halloween is a fantastic Holiday for Creativity.  The costumes, decorations and games are all just so fun!   Its also probably my favorite time of year.  The temperature is perfect, the colors, amazing and CANDY is everywhere (:    I met up with my friend from Chicago at the local (1 hour away) Pumpkin Patch.  Basically a Photo Opp.  The Brothers!   Its still weird for me not to have Brooklyn posing for these photos!  But here she is in all her glory for Fall Festival for her school where they dressed up as Scarecrows.   On Friday, I decided that there weren't any Halloween parties on Saturday, so I was going to throw one!   I tried to keep things healthy - at least for the beginning of the party.     We did Pumpkin Bowling  with TP Ghosts  Played Pin the Spider on the Cobweb Decorated Caramel Apples At the end, we had a Pinata of course because what would...

Brooklyn is blossoming into an amazing child.  She has started Kindergarten, adjusted wonderfully to another new home, and thriving in school and socially. 6 is a big year and we can't wait to see what she learns and how she grows this upcoming year. We started it with a typical Brooklyn Birthday and went all out! THEME: FAIRIES Decore: Brooklyn helped with the cake decorating.  Thanks to the Harris family for the Music Box/Cake Topper! I loved this touch.  Great idea from - guess where?!  PINTRIST The Treasure Hunt:   Everything had to Ryme of course.  Unfortunatley a month later, some of the cars with the hints are nowhere to be found.  Maybe I'll find them and update them, but I only have the last few.  We also don't have a ton of picutures of the actual hunt with so many kids running through the neighborhood...  But we started on the trampoline and they got their wings, tutus and bags Its a tradition that we do a t...