Annual Boo Bash was SPOOKtacular

The the greatest things about Halloween, for me anyway (if you know me, you know I Hate Halloween) is seeing the kids get dressed up in their cute costumes and our annual Boo Bash!

 Our Boo Bash is always a great success and a great time for families to come out and have a good time all dressed for the holiday!  The kids have a blast checking out their little friends costumes, making crafts and playing games.

Some of the parents really get into the spirit as well with some pretty awesome costumes!

We had a great mix of characters this year with monsters and pirates, a whole team of super heroes, little tigers and Winnie the Pooh, a whole bunch of beautiful princesses and more!

The kids had so much fun playing and crafting and eating, and I think its safe to say the grownups did too!

Happy October!!!

Fall is in full swing and now that we have welcomed October we can get excited about Thanksgiving and Halloween!

There are so many fun things to do with the family during the Fall months.  Take a look around at the gorgeous colour of the treaes and take a walk through the fall leaves!

Collect some leaves and make some great crafts with the kids!
You can get pretty creative with some colourful leaves and crafts supplies from around the house!

Visit our Arts and Crafts Blog for more fun fall crafts!

This month we have two awesome things to celebrate!  Thanksgiving and Halloween.

As families get together to give thanks, food tends to be involved!  We have a huge selection of fall recipes that are sure to please your family and friends!

Have a look at our Meals Blog!  You will be running to the grocery store to stock up on supplies for the kitchen!  My favorite are desserts with apples and pumpkins! 

 

And as the month trucks on and kids get more excited about Halloween, there are a ton of  ideas that are sure to get the kids giggling over scary snacks!  You can check us out on Pinterest and see all the spooky Hallowen ideas we have for you and your family!

Feel free to share your ideas with us!  We love to hear from you!

Happy Halloween!!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN MOMSTOWN MAMAS!!!!!!!

Finally, after lots of anticipation by the kids, (not me!), Halloween is here!

We spent the morning in momstown style having fun and celebrating the season.

The kids came out in their cute costumes and had the chance to do some Halloweeen activities thanks to the hospitality of one our memebers.

Cookie decorating was a blast! One mama made some awesome Halloween cookies for the kids to decorate and eat!!

Then we painted pumpkins! The kids had fun in the paint... as usual! The pumpkins were the perfect size for our kiddies to have fun with!

And finally, what day of celebration is complete without a snack!

HAPPY TRICK OR TREATING EVERYONE!!!!!

Boo Bash fun with Fisher Price!

Once again our Boo Bash was an awesome success!!!

We had an amazing turn out with loads of moms and kiddies decked out in costume and ready to have fun.

We definitely had some of the cutest princesses, pirates, ladybugs and superheros going!

This year we had a great opportunity to feature some fantastic toys from our Boo Bash Sponsor, Fisher Price.

The kids had a great time playing at the Fisher Price Play Area! They loved the toys and so did the moms and dads!!! The Princess Castle and the Ballapallooza were huge hits!! All the kids seemed to gravitate towards those.

And there there was Mickey! The kids had a ball watching Mickey dance and spin around the floor. This was one toy that was so popular some of the toddlers were found running off with him to have for themselves!

We also had a load of other fun for the families to take part in!

The kids lined up patiently to get their faces painted by the ever amazing Jill from Colville Creative Entertainent.

She has quickly become a huge favorite of momstown and her face paintings are out of this world!!

To add to the fun, we had Little Me Visual Photography join us with a photo booth. The kids had fun posing in their costumes to get their portraits taken.

To top off the day, we held a raffle for the awesome toys from Fisher Price, all our of winner were over the moon with their prizes!

Thank you to everyone that came out have fun and celebrate Halloween with momstown! A huge thank you to Fisher Price for their play area and prizes and to Colville Entertainment and Little Me Visual Photography for joining us!

Trick or Treat... no thank you!

Halloween is just 2 weeks away. For those that know me, I hate Halloween.

It creeps me out. The little ones look adorable in their costumes, yes, but everything else creeps me out.

I don't really even know why. I try to put on a brave face for my kids sake because of course they love it, why wouldn't they! They get to dress up and beg for candy!

I usually procrastinate in getting costumes and get the leftoves because I wait so long, but they don't seem to mind. My kids will never be any of those gory and scary creatures that you see in the stores or on tv. Never. Not so long as they live in my house. I wouldn't even know where to begin to get them prepared for that!

Seeing all those kids on Halloween night running around the streets with fake blood coming out of gross looking wounds, axes stuck on fake heads, weilding swords and other weapons of horror, wearing scary masks and gross looking props... it freaks me out. Who are those parents that dress their 5 year olds like dead people!!!!

Taking the kids out trick or treating freaks me out to the point. I mean I am literally a bundle of nerves, wound up so tight that the slightest scare would emit from me a scream of sheer terror. My tummy gets into knots, my hair stands on end and all I can think about is when will they be done. All the while I smile and take pictures and watch my kids have fun, but I am always looking for the next house and the next thing to avoid and trying to predict the next "trick"

If only they knew how terrified I was... of kids dressed up in costumes, ridiculous I know. Boy they would laugh me to the grave! Speaking of which, why do people seem to find pleasure in turning their yards into fake graveyards, with ridiculous tombstones and scary music and horrible men that like to pretend they aren't real and then jump up and scare the living day lites out of me... I mean the kids.

As for staying home and handing out candy, well that freaks me out too. You never who is going to be on the other side of the door when that bell rings... that unknown scares me almost as much as wandering dark streets with scary people.

So while I am petrified of Halloween night and all that comes with it,there are some things that I do enjoy surrounding the celebration.

I love going to the farm to pick pumpkins. I love carving pumpkins with the kids. Ok, that's it.

Oh and of course I love the momstown Boo Bash... but nothing scary ever happens there!

Boo Bash Spooktacular!!!!!

Our Boo Bash was a huge success!!!

the momstown Barrie mamas sure know how to have fun, and they sure have some of the cutest tots around!!!



While I am not personally a fan of Halloween, I always look forward to our Boo Bash! The only fun part of Halloween to me is seeing the kids have fun!



It was so cute to see all the kids in their costumes! They were having so much fun running around and it was so cute to see what they were all dressed as!

We had a dragon, lady bug, dog, mermaid, Dora, some tigers, a sweet little witch, an adorable pupkin, princesses, pirates, a wee little cow and so much more!


They were all so cute and so excited to be celebrating Halloween!
The kids enjoyed making crafts, dancing and just playing with each other!



As usual we have an awesome pot luck lunch with such a variety of delicious dishes!



Thanks to all the moms and dads that brought their little goblins out for a great morning of FUN!!!

momstown and Wendy's Celebrate Halloween!

Halloween is just around the corner, only 3 more sleeps!

We have been spending the week celebrating all the fun that comes with Halloween!



Today Wendy's hosted a Fun morning in their Bryne Dr. restaurant. The turnout was fantastic!

Moms and kiddies were all dressed up for to celebrate. There were crafts and balloons and free frosty's for everyone!



The kids had a ball running around in the cosutmes and playing together.

We had many new moms from the area come out to see what fun all of us at momstown have!

Pumpkin Play Date!

This weeks play date was all about pumpkins!!

The kids are so excited about halloween as many of them actually understand it this year for the first time!

We decided to do an easy but fun craft, mosaic pumpkins!!



The kiddies got a paper plate, a piece of orange construction paper and 2 eyes and a mouth made from black construction paper.

First step, rip the paper into small pieces! The kids thought this was great that they actually got to rip up the paper!



Next step, glue the orange pieces on the plate! Another favorite for the kids... GLUE! Kids just love glue for some odd reason!

Once their plates were covered in orange they were able to add on their eyes and mouth and VOILA! A pumpkin!!!



A great pumpkin story read by my oldest (it was a PA day!) and then some songs and dancing and it was a perfect morning!

Stll to come this week as we celebrate all the fun of halloween, Decorating Dudes and Divas, momstown Halloween Fun Day at Wendy's and of course.... our BOO BASH!!!!!!!

OOEEY GOOEY PUMPKINS!

We had our very first Mini Chefs group and it was so much fun!

With our first group taking place so close to Halloween it was only fitting do a Halloween recipe!

We had a week full of rain and cold weather and getting ooey gooey sticky while having fun was just what we all needed!

I chose Ooeey Gooeey Pumpkins after seeing what fun the momstown Oakville moms had with their moms and kiddies doing this same recipe.

Everyone loves Rice Krispie Treats, so we used this as the base to make our pumpkins! The kids helped stir up the GOO and count in the cups of rice krispies.

We scooped out big gobs of treat and the kids got down the making them into balls for the pumpkins!


Wih some bits and bites and candies, the kids got down to making their pumpkin faces!

It was so fun to watch them all so sticky and messy and sneaking nibbles and eating their candies!

I have to admit this was a great one to do just for the clean up, who doesn't love licking the bowl after making rice krispie treats!


I am looking forward to all the Halloween fun still come this week!

Halloween with momstown was a blast!

October was such a busy month but it ended with a well deserved BANG!

Our annual Halloween Boo Bash was a huge success again this year, our biggest event ever!!

Loads of moms, dads and kiddies came out for an evening of boo-tastic fun! The kids all looked adorable in their costumes, especially the babies who were experiencing their first Halloween!! From Woody to Nemo, turtles and monkeys and angels, Dora, a witch, a princess... you name it they were there!!!

This year was extra exciting as we had a very special sponsor!! Fisher Price got into the Halloween spirit and sponsored the party and fun! They sent a load of toys for the kids to play with and a special gift bag for each child!!

The kids (and moms!) had a blast playing with all the new toys! In between crafts and play dough and eating great food, the kids were sure they all got their turn checking out the toys!!

To round off the party and bring the excitement to the next level, all the toys were raffled off!! Some very excited mommies, I mean kiddies, gathered as the draw took place and the winner claimed their prizes!


Thank you to Fisher Price and to all the momstown mamas for making this year extra special.

October is Busy!!

Boy has October been a busy month!!! It's hard to believe their is just over a week left of October!


The month started off full of Fall and Thanksgiving Fun! Our little ones gathered in the cozy kitchen of one of our members home and made "hand" crafted turkey pictures! Painting with kids is always fun, and always brings out the giggles and smiles!

momstown mamas have discovered a new event that is lots of fun for moms with kids under 12 months! This week we held our 3rd Baby Babble get together and as always
the kids were fun to watch! The moms got some chit chat in while the kids played. Its amazing to watch a bunch of babes interact with each other and see how they grow and play together.

We are all looking forward to a great time next week as we lead into Halloween! Monday the mamas and tots will be heading to the farm for some pumpkin picking! Some Halloween crafts will precede our main event this month, our Annual Boo Bash!!

We are all super excited for this years party! Every year we have a great time seeing all the kids dressed up and enjoying some play and crafts and of course great food! This year is extra special with our party being sponsored by Fisher Price!!!

It's a great time to join momstown!! Not a member? What are you waiting for!!! Join today!!!