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Nina, What's Your Favorite Color?

March 26, 2009

"A rainbow."

(Smart girl!)

In nina

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Hello! I'm Heather. Illustrator, writer, photographer and mom of five. I also love to plan a good party!

Liv’s eleven on eleven eleven! Say that three times fast. 😆 Happy “golden birthday” to our smart, creative, sassy, sweet and beautiful girl!! 🎂💞
#webarelysurvivedhertoddleryears #itsallablur #oliviahoneybadger #sheisamazing

Invitations by owl for a birthday feast at Hogwarts! Olivia came up with so many of these ideas herself and we had so much fun planning this Harry Potter party together. 🦉⚡️
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My Halloween clip art came in handy for the invitations and our floating candles worked! Just cardboard tubes, drizzled with hot glue to look like melted wax, then painted white + topped with battery operated tea lights.
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We HAD to have Moaning Myrtle in her toilet because it’s just too funny 🚽💦 and the girls loved running around out in the dark during the horcrux scavenger hunt. I forgot to get a locket for one of the clues so I asked Will to make one - and he totally did! Coolest little cardboard locket ever. 🤩
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We had a potions class from Professor Snape (aka Nina - she was a good sport and no I didn’t make her dress up 😂). She helped the girls make a potion of lavender sugar scrub.
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Then it was the “Great Hall” feast with rotisserie chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, “Gryffindor Grapes,” “Slytherin Snakes,” “Professor Sprout’s Veggies,” and of course BUTTER BEER (thanks to my cousin @kettle.and.vine for the best recipe)! 🍻
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Next was blowing out the candles, our favorite pumpkin cake, hide and seek in the dark, and a Harry Potter movie. If squealing and hyperactivity indicates a successful party, then I think we nailed it!
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Everyone went home with a little bag of treats from “Honeydukes” — as if they needed more sugar. 😂 Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans (the good ones, not the disgusting ones), Dumbledore’s Favourite Lemon Drops, and a white chocolate golden snitch (Lindor balls were just the thing!). ✨
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#harrypotterparty

LOVE the weekly updates from my missionary! He’s having some amazing experiences and his testimony of Jesus Christ just keeps growing. It’s the best thing ever!! 🥰
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Great photos this week ➡️ Ben with his Albanian friend Emil, commie souvenir pins (they beat looks too happy to be a communist 😆), pomegranates, a lion 🤷🏼‍♀️😂, a jailed teletubby (Albanians are superstitious and hang dolls outside their homes to fend off demons), a baby clementine and some local buildings.

Anyone feeling like they got gypped on sugar last night needs to come to my house! We still have caramel apples, pumpkin pie and about 10 pounds of candy ... PER KID. 😳 #trickortreatingatdadsoffice AND #trickortreatingindaybreakneighborhoods
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I used the caramel apple recipe from my cousin @kettle.and.vine and they turned out amazing, especially with the white chocolate and cinnamon sugar. She always has the best recipes! 🍏 Give her a follow!

HALLOWEEN!!🌙🦉
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In order of appearance:
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Elsa + Anna (can you believe how much Nina and her cousin look like the characters? So much fun pulling together these costumes - thank you glitter glue and puffy paint!) ❄️🌷
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The Avenger cousins - Captain Marvel, Iron Man, Fat Thor (Liv! Totally her idea), and Stan Lee (Will) who originally created the Avengers in his comics!💥🇺🇸
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Last but not least ... those crazies @hannah.ruthy and @brookiemcafee from KISS! Hannah put her heart and soul into creating her costume and didn’t get a lot of sleep last night trying to finish it. I mean, look at all those sequins!! And the shoes ... custom made by Hannah herself! 😳⭐️🤘🏻😂

These are our “better late than never” pumpkins! 🎃 This month has been insane (mainly because we listed our house!) but we finally made it to the pumpkin patch. All the good carving pumpkins were mushy because, oh my gosh, it’s FREEZING here!! We were so happy to find these little non-mushy ones inside the market. Painting and markers it is this year!

Thanks Pinterest for this last second costume idea ... even though I’m sure most people didn’t realize I was even dressed up! #rosietheriveter
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We had fun face painting at our church Halloween party last night, and Clayton was “voluntold” to join in the pie eating contest! He was hoping someone else would hurry up and win and put him out of his misery. 😂🥧

It is SOoo cold!! 🥶

Cousins make the best friends! 💕

Stopped at Gifford House in Capitol Reef for pie ... sadly the person there before us bought the last one! 😑 At least the drive home today was so pretty, and I survived Hogsback on Highway 12! Thanks @hannah.ruthy for filming out of the roof window while I screamed ... 😱😳😂

This sight of my family made me so happy last night. 🥰 Just missing Ben! What a cozy Saturday night - campfire out back, hot chocolate on the deck, millions of stars, and then we piled onto the sofa sleeper and watched “Christopher Robin.” ✨

Tonight we had the giggles at dinner. We had no idea that we had chosen a “fancy” restaurant when we searched for pizza online. We drove way out of town to find this place, and then here we come, with a billion kids, shakes in hand that they hadn’t yet finished (it was dessert first tonight and I thought a pizza place would be pretty relaxed) AND a sack of fish and chips for Liv since she didn’t want pizza. 🤦🏼‍♀️ On top of that we were all pretty dusty, and were seated at the CENTER of a tiny room at a huge round table, surrounded by people in clothes wayyy cleaner than ours. 🤣 We might as well have been on a stage with spotlights since all the less trashy looking customers wouldn’t stop staring at us! I felt like saying, “Hey guys - do you mind? We just survived some slot canyons and we just want some pizza!” 😂🌵🍕#makingmemories

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