Halloween Night

Halloween Night

So here we done a post on our Halloween day and this is our post on Halloween night. It was Ava's first Halloween in Windsor so we made the whole day and night filled with Halloween stuff. From Us and Ava dressed up as Cats during the day, to Halloween Jam "Pumpkin" sandwich for lunch, "Halloween Coke" throughout the day which was limeade, Hot dogs & Spaghetti for dinner which was meant to look like brains but kinda didn't end up looking like anything ha but Ava eat them all up and also had "Ice Scream" with Jelly Worms and Orange glitter over the top to make it look more Halloween themed dessert which she eat all up. We got abit caught up with time so Katie quickly carved up two pumpkins and it was her first time so wasn't very creative haha!! Then Legoland Fireworks on every other night in October & November we all got ready to watch them from out back garden as we are very close to Legoland, so we watch that for 10 mins then off we went upstairs to get ready. We only had 5/10 mins to take off our cat make up and into something more scary which ended up in us looking like a we have been splatted with blood ha!! Ava got into her Ghost outfit and put on some white make up which didn't turn out properly but she looked so adorable. We went trick or treating with Ava and Tommy and apart from Tommy we was all dressed and ready for sweets!!! As I've said it's Ava's first year in Windsor so we didn't really know where to know so we just went local around our road ect but know we know for next year where to go and where not to go. We was impressed with some of the houses going proper Halloween in the front garden and it made us want to go proper OTT for next year. There was tape in people front garden so it was like a maze going in there, was fake blood all over the door and one looked like a scary graveyard!! We deffo will be making our front garden into a scary garden next year haha!!! Here's a few of our pictures from the night.. 

 

We had an amazing trick or treating experience with Tommy & Ava getting right into it and in the end Ava learnt to take more and more sweets and got less shy. Soon as we got home, Ava tipped all of her sweets on the table and we let her chose a couple so she can have before bed and then we took away the rest to have over the next few weeks well months!! There was loads!! Now Halloween is over, all we have left of it is sweets from trick or treat and Halloween cookies we made. Now onto Christmas!!!! 

Lots of Love,

Katie & Beth xx 

Halloween Day!

Halloween Day 

How exciting was it this morning waking up on Halloween day! The excitement of all the Halloween lovers filled the air. Its the day where we can all bare costumes and face paints no matter what age and it don't matter!

So that is exactly what we did here we are in the day time on Halloween...

Halloween Day!!

With our face paint on its was time to set about our day activity! Halloween biscuit making! We had bought cookie cutters for Halloween cookies weeks ago. They only cos 99p! You can tell how excited we were. Beth has made biscuits before so we knew they would come out alright! The biscuit recipe is simple and easy here it is below... 

100g (4oz) Butter

50g (2oz) Caster Sugar

Few drops Vanilla Extract

175g(6oz) Plain Flour

Method

Pre heat oven to 150 c/ Gas mark 2

Add butter and sugar in a bowl and mix well until light and fluffy. 

Add the vanilla, mix then add the flour and mix well. Roll out and cut shapes

Bake well for 25 mins or until golden brown. 

Once they are baked after waiting for them too cool you can have loads of fun decorating! mixing in different icing colours and even trying to make colours out of food colours! 

Here are our finished results! 

Before Baked

After baked and decorated Finished Result

Why not give them a go? You can make and kind of biscuits with the right cutters and decorations! They are a perfect idea for Christmas, Halloween and Easter! 


Lots of Love 
Katie & Beth...xxx

Throwback Thursday - Halloween Special...

Throwback Thursday 

Halloween

Every week as you know we will be doing a throwback Thursday post. This week being Halloween week,  we thought why not keep with the Halloween theme and share with you all our Halloween Throwbacks...

A major Halloween tradition is pumpkin carving! Now many people do this and many still have yet too try. Beth as you have seen from recent posts has been Pumpkin carving with Ava, but has tried the tradition long before she had children...

Beth pumpkin carving when she was young...

Happy doggy Halloween!! Even our furry friends like to join in on Halloween. Beth's dog had great fun in the past when it came to this time of year...

Beth's dog enjoying Halloween in his younger days...

We all like to dress up on Halloween no matter how old we are! We have been dressing up for years and still are, Its a fun night and kids love it so why cant we? Here's a couple of look backs on us joining in with the fun a few years back... No one said Halloween is just for kids...

Katie joining in the dressing up fun tradition

Beth as a zombie cheerleader joining in the fun

Even Ava has her share of a couple of throwbacks, She has only experienced 2 Halloweens but Beth has always made sure she wouldn't miss out and dressed her up for Halloween! She has even took Ava Trick or Treating on every Halloween since shes been born! Here are Ava's Throwbacks...

Ava's First Halloween dressed up in a witches dress.. And on the right with her mummy Beth dressed up mouse ears!

Ava's 2nd Halloween! She was a pumpkin:) 

There you go :) Our Halloween throwbacks, Hope you enjoyed reading this weeks throwback Thursday taking a look back at our previous Halloween nights.. We will now be getting ready to do it all again tomorrow night and safe to say we are all very excited. If this throwback has taught us anything its that Halloween is a fun time of year yes, but its even more exciting when children are involved and there is so much more to do regarding this time of year & tomorrow we shall be joining Ava in her Halloween excitement. Please all remember to take care tomorrow evening when taking your little ones Trick or Treating... and don't get too scared when  opening your door too all the scary characters that come knocking! 

Lots of Love 

Katie & Beth...xxx

Toddler Tuesday - Halloween Special

Toddler Tuesday

Seeing as this week is Halloween week I thought I would do this weeks toddler Tuesday with a Halloween theme. 

A dilemma I have found this Halloween is how few toddler and baby Halloween costumes there are about! The ones I have seen if any are not very impressive, come on toddlers like Halloween too!! You may find that the little dresses tho not toddler size may just fit your little toddler as they come up small, but really? they aint very weather suitable. You don't want your toddler freezing on Halloween night! To put a jacket over it would just ruin the costume. I've had to take to the internet to find my little ones costume, Toddler Halloween costumes certainly need more thought in the shops! 

You have to get the balance right on Halloween, and not make things too scary! When decorating your house or dressing them up, why not put a friendly face on all the scary stuff? Try pumpkins with smiles, spiders with wide eyes and jokey faces and ghosts more like casper than your scary haunting ghost. This will make your little one laugh and ease them into  the Halloween tradition, if you go in all guns blazing and make it too scary they may fear it or even have nightmares! 

Friendly Pumpkin Ava made

There is plenty to keep you and your little one occupied during the Halloween week stuff that your little toddler will love and enjoy. It can be hard amusing a toddler for so long but luckily Halloween brings with it bags full of fun activities to keep theirs and your minds working you could try 

1. Making Halloween cookies & cakes!

2. Pumpkin Carving :) 

3. Making Halloween decorations 

4. Bobbing for apples

5. Making or buying a Halloween costume 

6. Watching Halloweeny movies like Hocus Pocus 

Pumpkin Carving!

Spider Cakes!

Halloween decorations made by Ava 

Remember! Your toddler could get loads of sweeties while trick or treating, remember to keep their sugar intake low! Don't want them bouncing off the walls for a week! You can do this by spacing there sweeties out during the next weeks! Keeping their sweeties as a 'special treat' for when they are really good, or even try getting them a small bag to go trick or treating with!

This concludes my Toddler Tuesday for this week! I hope you enjoyed the read, and my little tips have helped! 

Lots of Love 

Beth...xxx

Halloween - Ava's Costume!!!

As most of you know Halloween is coming up, this Friday to be exact. Its that time of year where children get  excited and want to dress up as something scary and do the trick or treat tradition. Those children who are old enough to decide what they want to be have their costumes planned for months or have a good idea as to what scary 'persona' they want to become for this one night. As a mum I love this time of year, I enjoy getting my little girl Ava involved in the tradition. She is more knowing this year, yes. She can tell you what a pumpkin is and that the costumes are scary, but she cant let me know what she wants to 'be' so that decision fell in my hands. As the time of year is cold I don't like to put on these witch costumes you can purchase from a supermarket as they are not weather suited, so I took on the task of searching online. After a week of debating we decided on Ava being a ghost, something that is actually less common! On Ebay I went and I found the perfect costume in Ava's size! I set out bidding and won!. This little number shown in the photo above cost me £5.45 incl P&P. All I have to do is team it with white tights and white t shirt which we already have and we are away! We are also going to put some fake blood on the tights and some white face paint on Ava:). 

I hope this quick little post has helped those of you who cant decide what spooky character your child should go as at Halloween. 

We cant find the exact costume, but you will find one similar here. 

Lots Of Love

Beth...xxx

The Autumn Tag

We thought we would both do the Autumn tag that we have seen going around the blogging world. 

What is your favorite seasonal drink from Starbucks/Costa?

Beth: Caramel Latte, Like all year round I like to stick to what I know:)

Katie: Gingerbread latte is the most yummiest thing ever. 

What do you opt for - Boots, Scarf or gloves? 

Beth: I Love my boots! can't wait to get a new pair I also like a scarf on certain days.

Katie: Scarfs!! it is the most owned item I have. I currently am in love with my tartan one from Asos.

What do you love listening to during the Autumn ( Music )? 

Beth: I Listen to anything in the charts to be honest. 

Katie: Same as Beth, anything in the charts. 

What is your favorite perfume scent at this time of the year?

Beth: Anything I will be getting for my birthday next week lol 

Katie: Flash by Jimmy Choo. 

Which candle scent will you be burning this season? 

Beth: I like Katie's range of candles but I have never really been over interested in them tho I do enjoy them when they are on :)

Katie: I am obsessed with candles and Beth can vouch for this HA. I shall be using my Yankee candles from the advent calendar from Yankee I got last year. 

What do you love most about Autumn?

Beth: I love the whole Halloween feel to Autumn and knowing that its not long till Christmas! 

Katie: Defiantly wearing my Chelsea boots with skinny jeans and a big jumper, walking in the crisp air and nights in under the fire.

What is your favorite make up for autumn?

Beth: I love the Goldie colour eye shadow. 

Katie: Browns shades on the eye and nude or berry lips.

What are you looking forward to most during this season?

Beth: Im looking forward to spending Halloween with Ava and the family getting into the proper mood and dressing ourselves, Ava and the house up!

Katie: Halloween for sure. Then Fireworks as we live close to Legoland which has Fireworks Display every night for a week which we can see clearly from our garden. 

This tag for us excited for Halloween haha. 


Love Katie And Beth x 

Lazy Family Sunday

Hi everyone :) Hope everyone had a lovely lazy Sunday like we did here in Windsor. We lazed around in bed until half 10 quarter to 11, even Ava! After a busy week I think we all deserved it! 

For us girls and I think you would all agree that Sundays are the one day where we wont put on our best outfits, fancy shoes, have big hair and most of all we give our faces from make up letting our skin breathe.. we have braved the camera for a no make up selfie getting away with it as today was a lazy Sunday!

Today would have been the perfect day for a big fry up with all the added extras including a giant cup of tea or coffee! But unfortunately not having the full ingredients for a fry up and no giant sized mug me Tommy settled for a toasted sausage sandwich and normal sized coffee while Ava enjoyed eggs and a cup of juice. Sadly Katie wasn't feeling too well at this point at was in bed so missed breakfast :(. Don't worry shes feeling better now :). Below we have a cheeky shot of Ava enjoying breakfast time!

With an active toddler you have to think of some good Sunday activities not only that we enjoy family time and doing things as a family creating memories to cherish. So with it being the 19th October its the perfect time of year to start getting into the Halloween spirit (we love this time of year) so Tommy came up with the great idea of carving a pumpkin! Being Tommy and Ava's first time at pumpkin carving i took a step back and let them take the lead. 

Steps to pumpkin carving (for those who have not tried it yet) 

1. Cut a round circle out of the top to gain access to the inside of your pumpkin this will also act as a lid :)

2. Scrape the insides out of your pumpkin ensuring nothing is left inside and throw the cut offs in the bin. 

3. Grab a marker pen and draw on any design that you want onto the front of your pumpkin.. Go as wild,creative and scary as you feel!!

4. Cut around your design and poke out the bits you have cut! you can now admire your handy work!

5. To get it at its full potential on Halloween night pop a tee tree light  in the  middle of your pumpkin and put it out side your front door!!

Below are some snaps of Ava and Daddy enjoying some quality time pumpkin carving!

Our pumpkin!

After our pumpkin carving we got into the classic lazy Sunday feel and lazed around! With Ava snuggling into bed with Katie for a nap Me and Tom where able to spend some quality time together, with Tom desperately needing a hair cut I got my clippers out and cut his hair while watching some Sunday football :). 

Katie and Ava both woke up and we all enjoyed a nice lunch of sandwiches and nachos in bed:) 

As you can guess we didn't quite have  time to make a big roast dinner so with Ava in bed after a dinner of homemade vegetable pasta we had the perfect end to a Sunday with a KFC dinner while watching X factor... Pure bliss :) 

Hope you all had a lovely lazy Sunday and enjoyed it us much as we did here :) 

Until next time Lots of Love 

Katie & Beth ... xxx


  

Friday Fun : Getting Prepared For Halloween

Today we decided to get on the Halloween wagon haha. Tommy ( Katie's brother & Beth's Fiance ) is currently off work so once we dropped Ava of to school off we went to Tesco. We purchased two pumpkins and a Halloween make your own gingerbread house and its fair to say Tommy was far more excited than he should be lol We came back home and Tommy got started building the gingerbread house and Beth helped. It needed 30 minutes to dry before you start decorating it. This was the point we got way too excited and went back to Tesco to buy more stuff to decorate it even though things are provided we wanted more haha!!! Back home we came, Beth & Tommy got back to decorating the Halloween Gingerbread House and We are very impressed so much we are already looking and goggling what to do for our Christmas Gingerbread house haha. Onto Pumpkins, obviously it is abit early to start carving them so we put them on the fireplace and we have a little Halloween fireplace theme going on with fake spiders and cobwebs. 

Katie & Ava Took a few Selfies today as Ava is now obsessed with taking pictures lol And not planned somehow we have ended up wearing the same dresses haha. 

Tomorrow we have Beth's Parents coming down from Essex to visit us for the day and football is back ( BTW WE ARE BOTH OBSESSED WITH FOOTBALL ). With Tommy being Leeds United, Beth being West Ham and Katie Being Chelsea FC. Over the weekend we have Baby Shower planning which was all planning along fine but past few weeks we haven't done much, we have most of the stuff and the date just haven't sent out invites ect so we will be on that this weekend/next week and also will be doing blog post as the baby shower is on a small budget and we have a theme which we would like to all share with you all. 

Here is a beautiful picture of Ava just before school, doesn't she look so grown up. Her dress is from Primark, Tights are from Asda (can't find online but here are some similar) and Her Shoes are Flossy Plimsole from Office. 


We hope you all are having a lovely Friday night and have a good weekend :) 

Love Katie And Beth.