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Easy DIY Mickey & Pals Costumes

Easy DIY Mickey & Pals Costumes

Disney Fun: Easy DIY Mickey & Pals Costumes We head to Disney in a few days and my kids are super excited. They all love Mickey & his pals. So what better way to celebrate this than with easy DIY Mickey & Pals Costumes?  Even Miles giggles when we play the “hot dog dance”. A few years ago, I made… Read More

Favorite Halloween Finds from Etsy (& Giveaway)

Favorite Halloween Finds from Etsy (& Giveaway)

There’s almost one month until Halloween & we are excited to kick off the Halloween season this Monday with the Ultimate Halloween Giveaway!  We are featuring some of our favorite finds for Halloween from several different shops and a chance to win the whole prize package! Below, you will find details about each shop & it’s prize that is included… Read More

DIY Halloween Costume: Dolphin Trainer

DIY Halloween Costume: Dolphin Trainer

Last year Maggie wanted to be a dolphin for Halloween. While I (sort of ) came up with some ideas to create a dolphin costume, she decided she wanted to be a dolphin trainer instead. We had recently been lucky enough to spend a day with a real dolphin trainer. Maggie decided that’s what she wanted to be when she grew… Read More

A Halloween First Birthday Party

A Halloween First Birthday Party

This Halloween was very special for our family: we celebrated Tommy’s 1st Birthday! His actual birthday was a few days later, but we figured since Halloween was a Saturday, we’d celebrate with a Halloween 1st Birthday party – a lunch followed by trick-or-treating. It was a lot of fun and I can see many Halloween birthday parties in the future…. Read More

DIY Halloween Candy Bowls

DIY Halloween Candy Bowls

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TrickOrSweet #CollectiveBias   We’re preparing for a big Halloween bash in our house! This year, we’ll be celebrating Tommy’s 1st birthday on Halloween. Halloween parties are my favorite and I’m so excited that this year I have an extra special reason to throw a… Read More

Fall Play Clothes for Girls With Easy DIY Headbands & Bows

Fall Play Clothes for Girls With Easy DIY Headbands & Bows

We had some chilly mornings this week and it was time to add sweaters and leggings to the girls’ school outfits. Maggie and Alex prefer skirts and dresses, but also prefer non stop climbing, running, jumping and digging in dirt. Finding the right play clothes for fall is key because they wear them to school, where I prefer them to… Read More

DIY Minion Costume

DIY Minion Costume

  It’s hard to believe that we are talking Halloween already, but I wanted to share one of my favorite DIY costumes from last year.  All my son wanted to be for Halloween last year was a Minion.  Of course, I thought it was an awesome idea but there was one problem.  I could NOT find a Minion costume in… Read More

Two 5-Minute Halloween Projects

Two 5-Minute Halloween Projects

  Halloween is just a week away! I’m still wondering when baby will arrive and whether or not i’ll be home to do things like trick or treat and carve pumpkins with the kids on Halloween night. So, we’ve been doing some fun Halloween things ahead of time. This week we made 2 Halloween projects that were so easy and… Read More

Halloween Costumes for the Whole Family {& Giveaway}

Halloween Costumes for the Whole Family {& Giveaway}

For more Halloween inspiration, visit our Seasonal tab at the top of our page or follow our Pinterest boards for our latest pins!   It’s the first week of October and time to decide on what to be for Halloween this year. My kids have been talking about Halloween costumes since August, and change they minds all the time. We decided it was time… Read More