Hi associates! And Happy Halloween to these of you who’re celebrating at this time! TBH, I really feel like Halloween has come and gone already, and feeling like I really want to rally tonight lol. Between the Trunk or Treat, class events, buddy events, we celebrated. The youngsters have tons of sweet and enjoyable reminiscences. We good. But we’re nonetheless going to convey it sturdy tonight. 😉 High fives to all of my mama associates on the market pushing via; we’re nearly there!
It was a brilliant enjoyable weekend. To kick issues off, we celebrated P’s birthday together with her associates from college + her cousins! The youngsters had a half day on Friday, so it was the proper afternoon for a celebration at Wild Katz. I like events like this as a result of the children can run round, the mother and father can chill, we sing “Happy Birthday” and eat cake, and achieved. Minimal cleanup required. 😉
I discovered this cute banner on Etsy:
ordered cupcake toppers, and picked up inexperienced candies from Party City. 
For deal with luggage, I crammed them with ninja turtle masks and curly straws, slime, nostalgic sweet, and the star of the present was these pizza cookies from Simply Bliss.
(For lunch, we ordered the family-sized pizzas from Mama’s Pizza they usually delivered. Just a heads up for my native associates; it made it tremendous straightforward for a Wild Katz get together)
It was the proper celebration for candy P. She has the perfect time hanging out with all of her associates and we have been so grateful so a lot of them got here out to have a good time with us.
Friday evening, we frolicked at dwelling, and Saturday was Trunk or Treat on the dance studio.
Our group’s theme was Pirates of the Caribbean, and I volunteered the Pilot to be our Jack Sparrow. You guys, he WAS Jack Sparrow. He was absolutely in character for a captive viewers your complete time haha. I informed him he at all times has potential for Disneyland if the pilot factor doesn’t work out.
(Also shaggy dog story: when P was in preschool, her buddy couldn’t perceive her when she mentioned her dad was a pilot, and she or he thought P mentioned her dad was a pirate. She thought Tom was an actual pirate for a couple of months and it was superb.)
Our group mother is above and past, and our set-up got here out so properly!!
One of the mother and father made a plank for the children to stroll,
and I put collectively the Caption Hook ring toss.
We received third place, which I’m calling an enormous win as a result of the entire set-ups have been critically so so good!
After Trunk or Treat, we headed straight to the squadron household Halloween get together, which was at a buddy’s home. The had actions for the children (films taking part in and a leaping citadel) and many scrumptious meals and craft cocktails. When we first received there, we have been all feeling fairly drained, however then nobody needed to depart. 😉
Sunday morning, madre made an epic brunch. No one ever is aware of what to get the Pilot for his birthday or any vacation, so she mentioned she’d make him a birthday brunch. We all agreed that he ought to request this for each upcoming birthday as a result of all of us beloved it. Coffee cake, beans, egg casserole, corned beef hash, potatoes, bagels, the entire unfold was a dream.
In the afternoon, the Pilot took the ladies to our neighbor’s Halloween get together – I caught up on some work stuff at dwelling and was feeling fairly rundown at this level – and we had turkey pumpkin chili and cornbread for dinner.
Now we’re again into the week and into the Halloween enjoyable! I’ll most likely catch a noon yoga class for a bit of zen in the course of the actions. I hope you’ve gotten an exquisite day, too!
Thanks a lot for stopping by the weblog at this time and I’ll see ya tomorrow with my first reward information of 2022!
xo
Gina