I am so excited to finally get to share our new favorite backyard hangout with you! A mud kitchen has been on my wish list for a long time and I’ve been saving pieces of “trash” for about as long, planning to repurpose them into an awesome new spot for my kids and their friends to get messy and…
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Food for a Crowd & My New Favorite Way to Buy My Cake and Decorate It Too
So this weekend we had fifty people over to our house for a party. The party took place in our carport and backyard, and to say I’m thankful it didn’t rain is an understatement. Since the storm was good enough to wait until that evening, the afternoon was full of around thirty children running around our yard digging up…
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Outdoor Dinosaur Birthday Party
My oldest child turned five this weekend. So naturally we celebrated by gathering together one hundred of our closest friends and throwing a wild and crazy party. Kidding. Sort of. It was only fifty people and the wild and crazy of it only included a few water guns, breaking apart ice blocks with hammers, and two dozen kids running around the…
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Kids in the Outdoors: Addressing Fears & Safety
Just this week I had a conversation with another friend about fears and worries that hold her back from exploring the outdoors with her kids– past backyards and rubber mulched playgrounds that is. It wasn’t long before the conversation led to a reservation that I’ve heard many times before. What about snakes? We chatted for a while about her concerns,…
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Almond & Parmesan Crusted Chicken
Summer days call for an arsenal of easy meals that come together quickly without too much fuss. I love to cook and to work in the kitchen, any regular friend here knows that, of course. But summertime isn’t when you want to be stuck in the kitchen for a long time before dinner. Most days around dinner time at our…
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Vacant Pools and Groundhog Day Parties
June is well under way (how is it already almost the middle of the month???!!!) and we are melting enjoying the warmth of summer. I would say that we’ve been beating the heat at the pool, but when we showed up this week ready for a swim, we were rather disappointed to see that the pool was empty and closed until…
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