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Nightmare Before Christmas 5th Birthday Party for Baby J

Nightmare Before Christmas 5th Birthday Party for Baby J…As you probably can tell, we are a Halloween family. Christmas and Thanksgiving and Easter and all the rest of the holidays are certainly fun, but there’s just something really wonderful about the spookiness of Halloween. It’s not about a big meal, large family gatherings that go on for weeks, or mountains of presents; it’s just making one day extra special, a bit thrilling, and totally memorable. In our house, it’s the Halloween family portrait that gets hung on the wall! So, when my little baby girl watched Nightmare Before Christmas this year and declared it was the theme for her 5th birthday party, I was delighted…

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Halloween Snack Tray

Halloween Snack Tray…This was a very memorable and special Halloween for us, complete with gingerbread skeleton cookies, voodoo doll sugar cookies, monster haystack cookies, fudgy chocolate spiderweb brownies, caramel candy apples, chocolate Halloween cookies, and an abundance of candy! The pandemic has not put a damper on our Halloween spirit at all. In fact, I think we are having even more fun and making even stronger memories with all the creative solutions to staying in and just being our own little (growing) family! We sure had a great time doing our own thing this year…