closeup of black advent activity cards arranged on a wooden board - advent calendar design

I’m relatively new to the Christmas advent calendar scene. This is maybe the 3rd or 4th year I’ve done one. The first year I started little boxes that each held a small candy. The boxes were cute, but I wasn’t a fan of the candy thing. Last year my best friend and I were talking…Continue Reading “Modern Black and White Advent Calendar – Free Printable!”

A wide shot of the cake table including the banners and garlands above and the gold star balloons on either end

My thoughts about planning “second kid” birthdays Planning birthday parties for your second child can be challenging. I sat trying to think of what theme we should use for Finn’s first and was at a loss. I’d already done robots, dinosaurs, and monsters for Miles’ parties and Finn was too young to really have any preferences….Continue Reading “Finn’s First Birthday Party”

Cute orange monster cake and colorful, neon monster eyeball cookies

The Monster Party Here are some photos of the party we planned for Miles third birthday. We had a fuzzy monster cake with eyeballs that was inspired by this one I saw on Pinterest. We had some eyeball snacks like these cookies and some dipped rice krispy treats. I attempted to make some monster balloon column/towers and…Continue Reading “Monster Party in Colorful Neon”