My birthday is in the summer and I remember every year having a great backyard birthday party with all my neighborhood friends. However, all three of my daughters are born in the fall and winter so we usually have indoor birthday parties. That’s why when my daughters asked to have a half birthday party this [...]

We love Bingo! And these free printable bingo games are great for Memorial Day and Labor Day parties, as well as snow day and winter break activities. Here are four different picture bingo games with calling cards.

Jungle Animal Bingo
Farm Animal Bingo
Princess Bingo Game
Luau Bingo Game
Check out more printables with these printable mad libs while you [...]

The other day we went letterboxing at a beautiful park, forest, cemetery. Yes . . . cemetery! Just because there are tombstones everywhere, doesn’t mean all cemeteries look like this!

In fact, I think cemeteries and tombstones can be beautiful . . . during the light of day of course.

So we trekked down to our local [...]

We love ice cream! We take it so seriously that we have a family expression, “Never joke about ice cream.” That’s why we were excited when the girls got the opportunity to make homemade ice cream on our recent trip to Vermont. We were just a wee bit more excited when we got to tour [...]

My girls and I love chocolate chip cookies! And while I often bake them from scratch (though I use break and bake cookies equally as often ; ) ) I usually bake chocolate chip cookies in the cooler months so I don’t have to turn the oven on during the day. But today we decided [...]

In honor of the Olympics, my girls participated in the Bug Olympics at the library this week. They had so much fun that I thought the Olympic events they did would be great for playdates or for birthday party games. So let the games begin!

Olympic Birthday Party Games
Flying Flea Standing Long Jump
For this Olympic party [...]