Happy Birthday and Halloween!

Happy Halloween today! If you're celebrating what are you/your kiddos dressing up as? Mine are a SWAT guy and a man-eating shark - will definitely be updating with pictures once I get them! We did spend yesterday carving their pumpkins.

Let me tell you the (quick) story about all the dots in the pumpkins. The boys wanted to do stencils. They picked out Kermit and Perry the Platypus. We cleaned out the pumpkins

"Mom I like cleaning out pumpkins because it's gross, but cool!"

and then taped on the stencil and they started punching. When that got old after 4-5 punches I offered to help. A few minutes later I looked around and realized I was alone with 2 pumpkins. So I reverted back to the drawings they had made earlier of Jack - O - Lantern faces and quickly carved them into the pumpkins. I was not going to sit outside for an hour carving a perfect stencil if no one was going to do it with me! I guess these things can't always go as planned.

(Our obligatory pumpkin head shot)

The day before my oldest turned NINE years old! I still can't believe it. We did a very, very simple family BBQ to celebrate. I did let him choose a party printable for a few simple decorations and he chose the Monster Mash printable set from Spaceships and Laserbeams. Unfortunately since it was Friday and I worked all day before I didn't get a ton of pictures but here's what I did capture from our celebration.

(they were trick candles)

and my favorite part (the family really enjoyed it as well)

The collage of pictures in the shape of his birthday year! I did this in the 5 minutes before everyone arrived which is why it's not perfectly lined up, but it is definitely a fun collage and something I want to do again!

Happy birthday to my handsome, smart, funny, amazing little man!

Simply Amazing Science Party

I wasn't going to post today because I am swamped but I had to stop and share this simply amazing science party from Mini Mocha. Since I haven't even digested all the awesomness of this party I'll let a few of the pictures do the talking and you MUST go see the rest. Every single image is full of inspiration and fun.

All images from Mini Mocha

Thanks to Jen from Classic Play for pinning this!

BUSY!

I have a boy turning 9 soon! He chose to get a larger gift this year (iPod touch) in lieu of a big friend birthday party but we will still be having a fun family get together. I can't help but decorate a bit just for him. I love making my kids feel special. That's my job as their mom right?!

He chose the super fun Monster Mash collection from Spaceships and Laserbeams. Which is fun because it's so close to Halloween!

I find it impossible to sit and watch tv without doing something so lately while I watch some of my favorite shows, I've been cutting out bats. I finally got some put up LATE last night

Lot's more to do though! Meanwhile if you're looking for some fun things to do I really love this activity from this month's Family Fun magazine!

The boys saw it the the magazine and wanted to do it. 

PARTY TIME

It's been a while since I've shared a party here so I thought I'd link up to some great parties I've seen around the web.

I really love this dinosaur 1st birthday party from see kate sew

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AMAZING ANGRY BIRD PARTY

I had some comments on the fun Angry Birds sandwich yesterday so I knew I had to share this amazing Angry Birds party from Simply Styled Home. What is it about this game that is so fun for everyone? This makes me want to go stack up some boxes so we can knock them down. That's enough to make any boy laughing.

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SECRET AGENTS

Pirates, cowboys, knights, super heros... Boys love to play pretend (who doesn't?) One thing (other than those mentioned) that my boys love to play is Secret Agent or Spies. I did a fun roundup of Secret Agent inspired fun.

Chicken Babies shared a very creative and fun Spy party on their blog.

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HARRY POTTER INVITATION

I completely forgot to share the invitation from the Harry Potter party!

Inspiration was taken from the Ministry Decree Proclamations from Order of the Phoenix.

View all the fun from the party HERE and HERE

THE BEST FART NOISES

Yep, I am so going there. Fart, toot, cut the cheese, pass gas, breaking wind, flatulence, whatever you want to call it I have yet to meet a boy who doesn't think it's funny. Living in a house with 3 boys you quickly learn to find the humor in bodily functions. If you want to be the life of a boy party teach them this fun "trick". My brother (ok maybe me too) did this when we were younger and the boys learned at a friends' house from a neighbor.

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