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For the last 8 years, we have hosted a big costume party. It has been so fun, but every year they got larger and larger and larger. The last year we did it, we maxed out at over 200 people. So this year, a move felt like the perfect time to scale back a little […]

Back in September, we watched The Wizard of Oz as a family (it’s on Amazon Prime!) and the girls were instantly hooked. Almost instantly we all started planning our Halloween costumes around the classic film–and although it’s been a favorite movie of mine my entire life–this was the first time I was one of the […]

This post is in partnership with World Market. We’re so excited to share with you the outdoor dining area we created on my parents’ deck today!  We were able to pull the whole thing off for less than the $1500 budget we were given by World Market (more on that in this post) and many of the […]

At the beginning of October, we have a family tradition of finding some sort of costume around the house and taking a photo for our annual costume party invitations. Yesterday we did just that! It’s our 5th consecutaive year doing this and it’s so fun seeing Greta, errr Squints!, get more and more into it. […]

While we still have a lot of house prepping to do before we throw our costume party, we knew we had to get our invitations circulating.  We went back to the format of our first party’s invitations and decided to dress up for a quick photo for a few reasons.  First, although we’ve always had […]

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