Bowling Birthday Party - and BALLOONS!

Check these two "birthday kids" out! - So brave of them to wear their birthday hats to the bowling alley!

A visit from CAPTAIN AMERICA!

Imagine my surprise when I opened the door Sunday evening and found CAPTAIN AMERICA standing on my doorstep!  How cool is that?!  He'd come to visit his grandma who lives nearby...but had left his shield at home.  Noooo problem! -  a BALLOON SHIELD will work for now!

(Shield design by David Brenian.)

High School Dance - Cinderella also used a PUMPKIN

I went to my neice's wedding this past weekend and got to visit with my brother's family.  On my last night there I found out that my twin nephews had both been asked to the high school dance...more than a week before!  With all the wedding preparations, they hadn't yet had a chance to respond.  In their date invitation, they were each given a pumpkin with the girl's name hidden inside.  They'd had to clean out the pumpkin to find the name and were to carve their reponse, Yes or No, in the pumpkin.  Well, with the elapsed time, the pumpkins had begun to decompose.  I suggested that I make BALLOON PUMPKINS for them.  The boys thought of carving their response in candycorn pumpkins and placing them inside.  WAY cute!  Thanks, guys - for letting me join in the fun!