birthdays and holidays

This week we celebrated Doug's birthday. I decided that day would be a good day to get out the Halloween decorations as well.

It was so much fun to surprise Doug with a few little gifts... small but fun.

He was very excited to also get a package from his parents that day...

Instead of cake, he asked for apple pie..

Some of my favorite decorations this year...

I used Abi's broom that we got in Salem last year for her costume as a decoration... I hung it up and then attached the cute little spider...

That morning I was looking at the silhouettes I did of the girls and thinking that silhouettes can fit in with the Halloween decor. I thought it would be fun to make some Halloween ones- and then remembered we had some black frames in the basement. So, I set to work making this Frankenstein and witch...

ghost..

and my favorites- the vampire and cat. I also used some of my books as decor this year..

I put out Abi's witch costume to play with and she quickly put it on!

Then Abi and I made this countdown to Halloween streamer.

I put some new Halloween dvd's, books, and activities in a bag along with all of our old Halloween dvd's and books and each day I hide one for her to find when she takes the link off the chain.

The first day she got something new-- the Busytown halloween.