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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…

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DIY Nightmare Before Christmas Balls

DIY Nightmare Before Christmas Balls…Halloween 2020 is going to be a little different at our house. Normally we get an atrocious number of trick-or-treaters, 1500+! This year we are blocking off our sidewalk and keeping the door closed, and we’ll be doing our own creative trick-or-treating inside the house: Hubby and I will have a different costume on for each room of the house and the kids will go door to door. It’ll be memorable, that’s for sure! The pandemic has not stopped me from decorating the house, though, because we can’t let the neighbourhood down. Our house is just as haunted as last year (see the pics here), and I’ve even done a little Nightmare Before Christmas décor in the kitchen, too…

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Halloween House DIY Window Silhouettes

Halloween House DIY Window Silhouettes…It’s Halloween, and we celebrate big in our neighbourhood!  We live on a street where almost all the houses decorate weeks in advance, with elaborate graveyards and inflatables and spiders crawling on the roofs.  It’s intense, spooky, creepy, and awesome!  This year I took it up a notch with some DIY Halloween window silhouettes, we are the only house on the whole street who does this, it looks so good when the lights are on and the moon is out…

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Addams Family Nursery

Addams Family Nursery…The Addams Family is an unusual theme for a baby nursery, but it’s perfect for our new little one! We are big lovers of Halloween, and I’m a particular fan of the Addams Family. I think I was Morticia for at least 3 Halloween’s in a row as a child, she’s my #momgoals and her and Gomez are my #couplegoals–they are so in love and romantic all the time…