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Costume Party

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The night before Halloween, we went to a costumed Halloween party at our friends Aric and Kristy’s house. Kristy went all out. Halloween is her favorite holiday and she had lots of neat decorations.

Jars of Body Parts & Other Creepy Things

Flying Ghost

Kristy used dry ice to enhance the punch.

Bubbling Cauldron of Punch

I had offered to make something for the party and she asked if I could make these Severed Toes in Bandages. They turned out super cute and really looked like severed toes wrapped in bandages. Plus they were a breeze to make.

Severed Toes

Some of the Food

Our hostess with the mostness dressed up as a 50s pin-up girl.

Kristy, the Pin-up Girl

Every costume party has to have an Army couple. I wonder if real Army people ever wear their uniforms to costume parties? Probably not.

Nick and Stephanie

Jessica got to show off her cow costume. James and I dressed up as farmers to take care of our little bovine.

Jessica and Farmer James

"It's much better without that hat."

Costumed Family Photo

Jessica and Farmer Jennifer

Stephanie and Jennifer

Kristy and Greaser Aric

Dalton was a martial arts master.

Best Buds, Kristy and Jennifer with Dalton

Diane, Kristy’s mom, came as a doctor and her pooch Marley was a skunk.

Marley and Diane

Anthony and Jenna were co-hosts of the party. Anthony was a vampire and Jenna was a dark angel or maybe she said death angel. Jenna made all the tasty cupcakes at the party.

Anthony and Jenna

Jessica got to play with a little dinosaur at the party. Christopher dressed up, but his parents Jeremy and Megan did not.

Jeremy, Christopher and Megan

I’ll leave you with one last picture of my little cow and her Daddy outside by the pond.

Daddy and his Little Girl


Costumed Play Date

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Last Friday, our play group had a costumed play date to celebrate Halloween. Charlotte brought some cupcakes that she helped her mom make. The kiddos got to play and the moms got to chat.

Here’s Parker in a little ghost shirt and Jessica in her cow costume minus the hood.

Parker and Jessica

Look at Charlotte in her bee costume.

Charlotte the Bumblebee

Little Jack was a tiger. Kirsty said she found his costume for $3 at a consignment store. You can’t beat that.

Jack the Tiger

Even with all the toys, both Parker and Jessica wanted to play with Jack’s carseat.

Parker and Jessica

Here’s Parker looking all serious. I promise he was having a blast with the worm on this activity table.

Parker

Jessica got tired of her cow costume, so we took it off. You can really tell how long her hair is when I don’t put it up.

Jessica Playing with Legos

Charlotte and Mom Kirsty in the Background

A Tired Tiger

The kiddos had fun and I can’t wait for next year’s costumed play date.

Happy Halloween!

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This year for Halloween, I dressed up Jessica as a cow and she is the sweetest little bovine. James’ Mom made her costume and she looks fantastic in it, even if she isn’t the biggest fan of actually wearing the hood/hat.

Friday morning, we had a little photo shoot out in our front yard while we were waiting for her friends to arrive for the costumed play date (pictures from that to come later this week).

Bovine Jessica

Big Smile

"Yay!"

"I've found some acorns."

"You want some?"

"Moo!"

"Is that me ringing? I guess I am wearing a cow bell."

"I'm not so sure about this thing on my head."

"Free at last."

I made Halloween cards for eight special people this year, so if you received one, feel special. I actually picked up the die-cut card base last year as I had hoped to make cards last year, but I was preoccupied with last minute baby preparations the first half of last October and the second half was preoccupied with my brand new sweet pea. Needless to say, no one got Halloween cards from me last year. Now to get my butt in gear for 2010 Christmas cards. James is trying to convince me to just go the photo card route, but if I get started now, maybe I’ll finish by Thanksgiving.

Halloween 2010 Card

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Scary Skeleton; Just Rite Witch Way to the Treats
Cardstock: Hampton Art Die-cut Halloween Cards; Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Tangerine Tango
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Embellishments: Recollections spider; Hobby Lobby Halloween ribbon
Tools: Nestabilities circle punch

Thanks for stopping by to visit.

Jessica’s Circus Birthday – Part 2: The Party

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I love parties. Hopefully, Jessica will grow up loving parties as much as her Momma. I tried to trim the guest list for the party, but I think I still ended up with too many people in my house, but oh well. It was a ton of fun and Jessica will be able to look back at the pictures of all the people who came to celebrate her 1st birthday with her.

Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures during the party; however, my Dad and my sister using my Dad’s camera took lots of great pictures.

Here’s my Mom with her two youngest grand-children. We’ll be celebrating Trevor’s 1st birthday in less than 2 weeks.

Jessica, Nanny and Trevor

Papa and Trevor

Nanny and Cameron

I had sent James and his Dad to pick up the balloons and pizza. Don’t all those balloons look fun?

James' Dad Bringing the Balloons

Nana and Jessica

The balloon place was kinda backed up, so James didn’t have time to set up the circus tent before people arrived. Here’s Trevor and Cameron checking out the pieces prior to erection.

Trevor, Cameron and Papa

Jessica was enthralled with the balloons. She kept looking up at them.

Momma and Jessica

My friend Lori is so good with kids. Noah, Anna and Parker all enjoyed the jungle story she read them.

Lori Reads a Story to Noah, Anna and Parker and Parker's Dad, Brad

The Birthday Girl

Before people started arriving, our nephew Dawson asked what he could do to help. I showed him how to make popcorn and he filled up all the containers for me after each batch popped.

Dawson Scooping Popcorn

Cameron and Aspen

Parker Playing

Jessica Trying to Share Her Pizza

Action in the Living Room

Trevor Playing

Jessica’s birthday cake was a small two-layer affair.

Jennifer Bringing in the Cake

At first, she didn’t know what to think of it.

Jessica Checking Out the Birthday Cake and Candle

Jessica Eying the Cake

"Is this cake tasty?"

She eventually figured out that cake is pretty tasty food.

"Yeah, it's tasty."

I think everyone enjoyed the cupcakes.

Cameron Taste Testing a Cupcake

Jessica is so blessed to have so many people who care about her. She got a bunch of neat presents. She’ll be stylish, well-read, and have lots of active fun.

Jessica Opening Presents with Momma and Daddy's Help

"Oooh, I like books!"

"Is this car really mine?"

Previous party posts:  Part 1: Decorations. Stay tuned for Part 3: Favors and Thank Yous and Part 4: Food.

Happy Birthday James!

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Today is my sweet husband’s birthday. Earlier today, I took some pictures with Jessica telling Daddy happy birthday. I didn’t think I’d have time to actually post it, because I was trying to finish making the card for him, but she is taking a super long afternoon nap, so here it is.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

James is the best husband and daddy and I wanted to make him a super special card and I think it turned out fabulous. A gift on the other hand. I didn’t get him one. Yet? We’re not really big on exchanging gifts for our birthdays. I never know what to get him and he knows I just get myself gifts every time I get something new crafty-wise. Although, I do have a framed picture of Jessica for him to take to work. I guess that is a gift.

James' Birthday Card

Stamps: Motivet Birthday Morris; Stampin’ Up On Your Birthday (sentiment), Background Basics (on celery piece)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Pacific Point, Summer Sun, Certainly Celery
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Good Morning Sunshine
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Pacific Point
Embellishments: Stickles Yellow; Inkessentials Glossy Accents (on stamped balloons); Stampin’ Up Old Olive 5/8″ satin ribbon; DMC floss 469
Tools: Prismacolor colored pencils; Nestabilites Standard Circles Large, Classic Scalloped Circles Large; Stampin’ Up Key Tag Punch; Martha Stewart Balloon punch

This card uses the October Motivet sketch posted below.

Motivet October Sketch