Happy Easter 2012

Here's hopping that your sun will shine,

your eggs don't crack,

your chocolate doesn't melt,

 and your day goes all sparkly and glitterly!!

HAPPY EASTER



Happy St. Patrick's Day

Hope you remember to follow your rainbow today.

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Happy Halloween 2011

Happy Birthday to Me!

Since my birthday was celebrated last weekend with all the other March birthdays I went about business as usual today. However, the celebration was really great, mom and Edmond had a pizza party. Yea!  No cooking and cleaning for me. I got one of those nifty little creative momories paper/picture cutters, a huge box of mixed Dove chocolates (HANDS OFF GUYS!!), some money, and 7 new vegetarian/vegan cookbooks from hubby (we have a Borders that is closing up and books are 50-60% off). Tonight I spent the evening with my free birthday drink from Starbucks - a Soy White Chocolate Mocha Latte Decaf with no whip and on the computer blogging a little and reading Appetite for Reduction. It was a great day!

Halloween Party 2010

Do remember to fly by next year, dearies.

A Merry Christmas Wish for You

We hope your Christmas Day is filled with

love, gratitude, friendship and family.

2005 Pumpkin Carving

These are our pumpkin carvings that I found in a scrapbook album from 2005. If you compare these pumpkins to ones they did when they got older. You probably wonder what happened to their artistic carving talents. Well, the reason for that is - when they were younger I wasn't so keen on them wheeling a sharp knife about - they had different thoughts! There was a lot more adult involvement in the carving department when they were younger. The older the boys got the more work they did on their own.  Hope you enjoy.

It's Almost Party Time!

I'm so excited that the day is all most upon us and all the lovely dearies will be here. My potions collected, the cauldron has been scrubbed, the waiting is near unnerving but that's the Halloween rub. Do fly by Saturday, no need to be fast the celebration is otherworldly and bound to last. It's tea & cakes at a Fanciful Twist with V and shopping at A Magpie Halloween with me.

Trick or Treat 2009

The highlight of this years Halloween celebration, it was Emma's very first!!! So our little pumpkin went as a pumpkin.Collin cut the mask out of Kody's old screaming ghost costume and painted his face. Kody turned 13 this year and thought he was too old for trick or treat so he went to visit his granny.

Joseph is sure getting his dollars worth out of Collin's old pirate costume from Dollar Tree. He wanted to be a pirate again - go figure - it's year three for the crazy costume.

Baylyn wanted to be a fancy painted face vampire.

So we are off with Amber (a cousin)pushing Emma in the stroller to collect candy and see the sights. As you can see Our little pumpkin isn't impressed with anything except her nighttime meal.

Along the way we saw scary pumpkins

and friendly pumpkins. The weather was wonderful, the crowd was great, the candy was delicious, and the memories are forever.

Happy Halloween 2009

Happy Halloween

from our coven to yours.

Trick or Treat 2004

What do you get with a $5.00 package of toilet paper and hand me down Clifford and Spiderman costumes? One big mummy,one Clifford impersonator,

another little mummy,

and a baby Spiderman.

Oh yea, one want-to-be big Clifford (aka. a man losing his mind.)

After all the running, trotting, walking, and strolling it's time to check over the treasured booty. Notice the kid with the sticky fingers to the left? Keep you eye out for him.

Well, Collin's stash is accounted for.

Baylyn gets busted in the act by Kody.

The face of the guilty - a candy thief. String him up boys!!!

Halloween Party 2004

This was one of our simpler parties, in our early years there were a few and as time went on they became more festive and involved.

The menu is Swamp Stew, bone bit, chocolate spider cake, spooky gingerbread house, witches hat cookies, and crunchy eyeballs.

Swamp Stew is just a basic home made stew.

Bone Bits are crackers.

Chocolate Spider Cake is a single layer 9-inch round cake and a ding dong with chocolate frosting, twizzler legs and peanut M&M eyes.

Spooky Gingerbread House was a box kit from Michael's Craft Store.

Witches Hat Cookies are flat chocolate covered cookies with a Hershey's kiss glued in the middle with left over frosting.

Crunchy Eyeballs are rice krispy treats shaped into a ball and a flat M&M poked in the middle.

Joseph is a BIG 2 this year. I know the cake looks horrid and I suppose it should it is a Halloween birthday party and Joseph wanted a spider cake - the boy likes bugs but YUCK!!

His one and only want and wish a Barney.

Baylyn and Ashley seemed to be having fun. Hey, that's that Candy Thief!!!

Pumpkins & Broom Riding 2004

Digging through the old attic I found a small wooden chest covered in dust and cobwebs, gingerly I brushed it clean and this is what I found...

Big brothers giving baby brother the absolutely needed pointers of the broom. What type to buy. Where to get the best one. What is the most reasonable price and of course how to fly on a broom. If all else fails make your own and wing it!

Joseph with his carved pumpkin with Papa's help of course,

Kody just wanted a traditional carved pumpkin,

and Collin wanted something creepy and scary. Well, it's definitely different.