Happy Halloween!

Had to show off my little golfer man.. ;)

Happy Halloween!!! Hope you all have had a fun and safe Halloween weekend. 

Have fun Trick or Treating!

Halloween Part I

Sawyer has his Halloween parade at MDO today. Look at my little Pirate! Pretty stinkin cute!

Vintage Halloween

Sadly I am not throwing a Halloween Party this year. But of course I still know in my head what I would want to do if I had time to put one together; I would love to do a neutral vintage Halloween party. This is the inspiration that encompasses the party I WISH I could throw!

images: Spooky Sign, invitation, Cupcakes, Dessert Table, Cake pops and Flower arrangement, Cupcake Toppers

Don't want to forget

I don't ever want to forget how Sawyer reacted when he saw Andrew for the first time after Disneyworld. We met him at the lake and Andrew got him out of his car seat in the parking lot. I thought Sawyer would never let go. I grabbed my camera to take pictures of it because Sawyer literally stayed like that for 5 minutes and would not let go of Andrew's neck. He missed his Dada! 

We both love you Andrew!! You truly are the best Daddy and Husband I could ever imagine. We are blessed. 

Goth/Glam Halloween Table

Have you all see this chic Halloween Dessert table that Torie Jayne designed last year?? I came across it and since I wasn't a part of the blog world this time last year I fell in love with her design and all of her tutorials! Look at this beauty and then check it out HERE because her blog outlines even more details and she has tutorials for almost everything you see!

Black Crow Tutorial

Skull Candy Lollipops Tutorial

Halloween Cocktail Recipe

Happy Tuesday everyone!!

Fall Staple

I am obsessed with Pumpkin Bread! I have been known to eat an entire loaf by myself in two days.. Not good.. 

So, I wanted to share my favorite recipe and show you a way you can wrap a loaf up for a friendly fall gift for your friends or neighbors.This would also be a cute party favor for your next fall event; just do a mini-version to hand out. 

Pumpkin Bread

3 cups sugar

1 cup oil

4 eggs

1 (16 oz) pumpkin

2/3 cup water

3 1/2 cups flour

2 ts baking soda

2 ts salt

1 ts baking powder

1 ts ground nutmeg

1 ts allspice

1 ts cinnamon

1/2 ts ground cloves

• Cream sugar and oil. Add eggs and pumpkin. Mix well. 
• Add dry ingredients and water
• Pour mixture into two well greased and floured loaf pans. 
• Bake at 300 degrees for 1- 1 1/2 hours or until toothpick comes out clean. 

ENJOY!!!

Yummy Monday: Pumpkin Bread

Fall doesn't officially begin in our household until the first batch of pumpkin bread is made and that was finally what I did this weekend. I made one for us and our company and then one for our neighbors. This recipe is by far my favorite pumpkin bread recipe. You can't go wrong!

Pumpkin Bread

3 cups sugar

1 cup oil

4 eggs

1 (16 oz) pumpkin

2/3 cup water

3 1/2 cups flour

2 ts baking soda

2 ts salt

1 ts baking powder

1 ts ground nutmeg

1 ts allspice

1 ts cinnamon

1/2 ts ground cloves

• Cream sugar and oil. Add eggs and pumpkin. Mix well. 
• Add dry ingredients and water
• Pour mixture into two well greased and floured loaf pans. 
• Bake at 300 degrees for 1- 1 1/2 hours or until toothpick comes out clean. 

This makes for the perfect fall or christmas gifts for neighbors, coworkers or friends. I just wrapped mine up in some extra fall fabric I had left from another event and tied some orange raffia to finish it off. Super easy and a great way to say "Happy Fall" to the people you love!

Halloween Printables

There are so many INCREDIBLE Halloween collections out there by a lot of party peeps. Here are a few that I just L-O-V-E! 

Hopefully these might come in use for your Halloween parties next week! 

This collection is to die for! Southern Belles Charm designed these collections and you can purchase them yourself HERE.

I also love this collection from the talented Amanda Parker with Shindig Parties. You can buy any of these spooky products HERE.

Here are some vintage tags and labels that I think would be perfect for a vintage inspired Halloween Party. In fact, I might invest in these myself. 

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How cute would these be as wine labels?!  

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Hope you enjoy these fun finds! Happy Thursday!

Featured Party: Bon Appetit!

Julie with A Reason To Get Together sent this over and I absolutely fell in love! Julie explained how much she loved Julia Child and how she had been inspired to cook more from her cookbook. So... she decided it would be fun to host a "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" party. GENIUS!!

Julie said, "There were rules to the party, and each couple needed to bring a dish cooked out of that particular cookbook following the recipe exactly. They also had to provide a bottle of wine that coordinated with their particular dish.  We hung up lights, used existing decorations from previous parties I had hosted, shopped our local thrift stores, used scraps of fabric, shopped our friend's homes, and managed to keep our party decoration budget below fifty dollars." 

The decorations are incredible, take a look at this beautiful party... 

This is one of those parties where I truly wish I could of been there! She made it so warm and inviting and the theme is so original. So impressed Julie, Thank you so much for sharing!

Definitely go check out all the details of this party on Julie's blog HERE. 

Have a good Thursday! 

One Magical Trip

Ohhh Disneyworld... There seriously aren't words to describe what a magical and fun trip we had with our family. We packed in as much as we could in our 6 days at Disney and didn't miss a beat. It was definitely a trip to remember and even though Sawyer will not remember this trip when he is older at least I can tell him he had the time of his life and I'll have these pictures to prove it. 

I loved spending time with my family and pretending I was a kid all over again. Sawyer did so great being totally off his schedule and maybe even enjoyed it more than anyone. So here is a recap of our trip. There are a lot of pictures coming up but sadly this isn't even half of them!

All the kiddos waiting for their first monorail ride! We missed Jack and Will (my other 2 nephews who didn't come) :(

One of many naps in his stroller. He definitely learned to go with the flow on this trip. 

Sawyer has a new best friend.. Conner. I might even do a whole post about it b/c I have about one MILLION pictures of these two from the week. Conner loved him and Sawyer LOVED Conner even more. They played so well together and every time I would look over Conner was holding him, playing with him or taking care of him. 

Caroline and Becca.. little angels :)

"Honey I Shrunk the Kids" Park. Sawyer loved this park so much that he threw a huge fit when we left. It was such a cool park.

I know this is blurry but it is the only picture I have to document my grandmother and aunt coming to visit! We were so glad to get to spend some time with them, they just live an hour from Orlando. 

Sci Fi Restaurant. This was the neatest Restaurant! It was staged like a drive in movie with real cars to eat at, stars in a dark sky and a big screen with cartoons playing. 

We LOVE PAPA! He was the biggest kid of us all! 

One of many rides that Sawyer went on. Figment was definitely one of his favorites though. 

Thanks Zac (the one husband who could come) for giving my arms some relief that week! He definitely helped Brooke and I with the toddlers a lot!

The little mommies of the trip! They constantly were wanting to push Sawyer and do everything they could to help. I loved it!

Sawyer said "BECCA" the whole trip. We were all roommates so they became quite attached. Sawyer still goes around our own house saying "Where's Becca?" even though we haven't seen her in a few days.

One of many monorail trips

I heart EPCOT

Sawyer in the middle of major girl fest! The girls got Princess Makeovers at the "Bibbidy Bop Salon" and Sawyer was very intrigued. I laughed at the difference in boys and girls, while the girls were getting glittered, hair sprayed and pampered I look over and Sawyer has one shoe off, leg propped up looking utterly confused at the scene. Oh the differences... 

T-Rex restaurant

Once again, Conner and Sawyer

Jennie and Caroline

My little pirate for Halloween at the Magic Kingdom

The three princesses with a couple pirates. We got to stay out at the Magic Kingdom until 11:00 for a Halloween party we got tickets for and soaked up every minute. No lines for all the rides and candy at every stop. The kids LOVED it! My kid was T-I-R-E-D but I was proud of him for staying up so late.

Winnie the pooh ride that we did about 10 times. This was by far his favorite ride. 

Breakfast with the characters!

We LOVE MIckey!! He kept saying "Ball, Ball" and grabbing Mickey's nose. 

There ya go! A little taste of our fun trip! Thanks Mom and Dad for all the memories, I will never forget how much fun we had and can't wait to go back.