What's On My Happy List?

Sunday, October 31, 2010
Guess who?

It's "TinkerBell"

with the Peter Pan crew...

Hannah as "Peter Pan"

Emma as "Wendy"

B. Olivia... as "Captain Hook"

Kyleigh as the fairy "Vidia" from Tink's Pixie Hollow

with her Pixie Hollow friends....they made their skirts together.

and me as "Princess Tiger Lily"

Tink raiding grandma's treat basket...she knows what the good stuff is!

With the cousins at grandma and grandpa Bells.

There was a rainstorm Saturday night here which put a slight damper on the trick or treating action. Honestly I didn't mind too much. I'm not a die hard when it comes to this particular thing. Kyleigh is the only one who still went out with her group of teenage friends in the rain. nuts. Emma had expressed earlier in the day that she didn't even have a desire to go trick or treating. She just wanted me to buy her a bag of chocolate candy. So I did. That's trick or treating made easy. ;) Hannah even decided to stay in rather than go with her friends. B. Olivia was not feeling well, if you can't tell that enough from the pics, and Kate doesn't know any different. So dad and I didn't have to go out. YES! Frankly, I was thankful for a quiet night in after the grumpiness factor with the girlies was reaching high levels throughout the day. And yes that would include me. LOL We popped popcorn and watched some of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Twelve years now that we've been dressing up together (minus dad {most years}...who would rather have a root canal than dress up on Halloween. He didn't even like it as a kid....so he happily watches and cheers us on from the sidelines.)

And lastly a Halloween treat for ya....this is the adult version of the traditional kid's oreo dirt cup.

We made this graveyard style dessert today for the family lunch...bottom is a few scoopfuls of baked brownie..layered with chocolate mousse (the new easy to make kind from this box) topped with whip cream, crumbled brownie and toffee bits. Scrumptious.

Happy Halloween!

What's On My Happy List?

Friday, October 29, 2010

When I saw this idea for a witch boot holding candied pretzels from Parent Magazine I knew I had to try and make one since my girls make these "witch wands" with their Aunt every year for the family Halloween party at grandma C's. It was easy peasy to make. All you need is a empty t.p. roll, paper and glue. I made only one but what a fun Halloween party favor just incase you need a few for your Halloween party this weekend.

Here are a few pics from our family Halloween party that my sister in law threw for us tonight...Good food, fun games and awesome prizes...I don't need to do a thing other than show up. Kinda nice since I'm a tad partied out after the goings on of the last few weeks.

My kids have a great time helping their aunt and grandma with food prep and decorating for the party...

Another sister-in-law made these monster cupcakes...how cute are they?

What's On My Happy List?

Brie's 6th Birthday Party....a Halloween Bash last Saturday ...

They have the cutest cupcake wrappers out these days! Found these haunted gate looking ones for the cupcakes that we made, topped with spiders, cats and haunted houses...

more treat jars...love those things, especially with the added labels and vintage looking Halloween toppers.

Made a spooky tree from fallen branches which I took some purple paint and black spray paint to..hung bats and other Halloween ornaments from it. One of my favorite elements of the whole party.

We had dry ice coming out of the cauldron which you can't see too good but what a cool effect...it made gurgling noises like a real witches brew...

Bought these carmeled apples and just added the tulle....whalaa!

Took store bought rice crispy bars, put a craft stick in them and dipped them with chocolate and sprinkles...we filled store bought little pie cups with Oreo ice-cream to make spider pies...ran out of black decorating icing for the webbing. boo.

Added little tags to the straws..it's all about the details! Love the worms.

Made mummies to eat....had apples with caramel and bat poop along with witches frightful fingernails.....

The invite... a print out from one of my favorite computer sites. Added a vintage touch by spray painting left over doilies from the shower I threw and used two different cupcake wrappers (do you know those things are just not for baking cupcakes in?!) for the middle and added a Halloween embellishment. Brie delivered them to her friends in her skeleton p.j.s

Mod Podged these two books with Halloween scrapbook paper...labels were a free download...found those little vintage plates dirt cheap at one of my favorite decor stores..

Found this little guy flying on a crow there too. I snatched him because I heard crows are a really hot decor item this Halloween. serious.

Bought these little jars at the craft store and painted them with a special kind of glass paint. The dark bottle, the crushed bat wings, is actually a pretty purple but the camera didn't pick up on that.

THE GAMES
The Spider Game...who ever collects the black widow (a little red dot sticker on the spider gets the prize)

The coffin dig for candy and prizes...

from this bucket

Pin the eye on the monster...

Halloween Bingo....

Hunting for monster eggs...

Our little scaredy cat....Kate woke up from her nap and wondered what the hay was going on...

BOOYA I'm almost 6!

Par-tay Hardy

A little more awake ...

Gift time

The vintage party favors I painted. They are paper mache boxes filled with beans which makes them rattle when you shake...on the back side...a cute saying for little ones spooked while out trick or treating...

Birthday morning...opening up gifts.. A Madam Alexander Doll dressed up as a pumpkin. die.


Brie is star student of the week in her class. She took this "Halloween inspired" spotlight poster to school on Monday. Loved putting this together. It tells all about her, showcasing some of her favorite things...her family, Disneyland, music, drawing, dancing, Scooby Doo & Tom and Jerry cartoons, Junie B. Jones books and favorite foods...salad, shrimp, chocolate chip pancakes and broccoli. not kidding on the latter. She loves that stuff!

Off to school on a snowy morn with her b-day treat bags to share with her classmates.

Love this kid! One of the things I admire most about Brie is her tender heart and the compassion she has for other people at this young of an age. You'll hear her say, "I feel sorry for her". etc. Not too long ago she was praying for an elderly gentleman in our ward who was dying. Each time her words to Heavenly Father melted my heart. Just yesterday she pulled from my church bag a bookmark which has a picture of my deceased sister- in- law on it. She stared and stared at it without saying a word. And then I could tell she was going to cry. we miss her. So we hugged and burst into tears together. Tender moment I tell ya. Another thing I love about her is that she has memorized parts of the primary songs "I Wonder When He Comes Again" (one of my all time fav Primary songs) and "Book of Mormon Stories" on the piano. She just sits down at random times throughout the day and plunks away at it. Tickles me to death. Happy Birthday to my sweet B. Olivia. Love you!