We are hosting kids Halloween party for our friends families today!

Crawling sandwiches – turkey & cream cheese spread on pumpernickel bread 

Mummy dogs – baked hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls

Candy popcorns on the cob – melted marshmallow with popcorn, chocolate chips & sunflower seeds

Finger cookies –  recipe here  

And cheese broomsticks – string cheese & pretzel sticks

Kids games/table:

Kids will be playing  Dr. Feel-einstein game

Decorate-your-own candy apple station for kids with melted caramel & chocolate with lots of sprinkles and candies.

Chloe and Shane helped me put faces on each cup for the little guests.

Witch table legs from Chasing fireflies.

Adults drink station:

Wine glasses dipped in the cinnamon sugar 

Honeycrisp apple sangria – Chardonnay, Schnapps, pisco & honey with apples, orange, lemon, lime, cinnamon sticks, ginger & cloves.

We are ready for our guests!

Chloe carved her pumpkin for the first time. She carved a cat face. Great job!

Shane art directs…me to do them.

Chloe went to a Girl Scout sewing and fashion camp this week and today all the girls wore their own designs and walk the “runway”. The teacher introduced Chloe as very creative, very soft spoken at first but who came out of her shell when she began to explain her thought process about her designs. Chloe called her top ice concept matching with her butterfly high and low skirt.

I was blown away. Great job Chloe!

After church, we invited a few of our neighbor friends over for some grilling.

Quinoa with strawberries and apples

We’re grilling my juicy burgers

Salmon, tuna and tilapia fish skewers marinaded with garlic and herbs,

vegetables

pineapples & peaches

and sweet and spicy chicken

Hmmm… what can we do with 4 little girls….

Let’s make floral crowns with our garden flowers!

and Shane painted a bird house.

Uhm. that’s a first.

Happy Sunday!

As part of our marketing inspiration day we took a class in paper making @ Dieu Donné.

For once, I didn’t have my camera with me!

My first paper

Can’t wait to give this to my Chloe!

I guess work can be fun sometimes. 🙂

translation: I love You

While we had all kinds of activities upstairs,

he was taking a father’s day nap downstairs….zzzzz…

Big breakfast for the big kid.

Chloe, saying grace this morning, giving thanks for her dad.

Shane: Mommy, I know why mother’s day and father’s day are on Sundays.

Me: Oh yeah? Why?

Shane: Because we can go to church in the morning and thank God for our mothers and fathers.

How sweet…

We have a very special guests staying with us and we’re so thrilled to have them for the weekend!

Chloe’s been talking about selling lemonade in our street today…but I didn’t think she’ll have a good turn out…so I suggested we wrap up our lemon poppyseed muffins instead and share them with our neighbors. One of our neighbors kids babysit our kids and Chloe and Shane absolutely LOVE them. 🙂

Kids wrote each of their names and decorated the boxes.

Delivery ready to go.

On our way back we cut some flowers from our garden.

Chloe’s room has a pretty view of the backyard. Our magnolia tree started blooming just in time for our return.

A new mirror completes the room !

Chloe’s Daisy event was held at Mosaic Glassworks shop.

They had a choice between a butterfly design or an owl design.

Chloe picked an owl.

She did a beautiful job all by herself. I was so tempted to help her make it. I literally had to hold my arms back from reaching in because it looked so fun! I think I’ll have to come back here with Shane later. 🙂