halloween

Halloween was AWESOME!!! We had a great time. Our church did a fun Halloween party full of carnival games, spook alley, costume and pumpkin contests as well as a chili cook off. We also did the usual school and trick or treating stuff. Our neighborhood has a block party where they serve free hot dogs, drinks and other goodies, while they show a movie on someones garage. I love my neighborhood on halloween. Most houses are decorated and they string stuff across the street like bats or "dead bodies" and ghosts. Its all super fun and super cool. The funnest thing we did was an after party. We had the sitter come at 8pm and partied until almost midnight. The party was great. It was at our friends huge house that is on the hill over looking the city and the whole place was decorated classy Halloween style. They had it catered by one of our favorite resturants, a good DJ, and a hot chocolate and apple cidar bar.It was so much fun. Proving once again that Halloween is my favorite holiday!!

Balloon "UP" birthday party

I can't believe Ellie is 9. My how time flies. We had her birthday on the craziest weather day ever. Well crazy for us. The day before was a beautiful 89 degrees and full sunshine. Her day was a cold 64 degrees hurricane. Not the best day for a balloon themed birthday party. At around 10 am I had 100 balloons filled inside of the trampoline enclosure. By the time the party started I had 8 balloons left. Weather aside it was a good party. We had some balloon relay games and shave the balloon with a razor without popping it. I also taught the kids how to make a balloon animal. Everyone had a good time regardless of the cold WINDY weather. Luckily we had a bounce house to entertain and warm up the kids by making them jump around. Her cake was "UP" inspired. I made a house out of cake then covered it with fondant and painted it with food coloring. I screwed a small piece of wood to a dowel stuck it in the cake and covered it with small cupcakes and fondant balls to look like balloons. It wasn't perfect but it was cute, and the kids LOVED it so thats all that matters.