Behind The Scenes-Halloween Party



 


My Rice Krispie Halloween House Party!!


I was so pleased to be accepted in to the House Party's Rice Krispie Party! I spent a good amount of time planning and thinking of fun things...and then realized, my apartment was just too small to hold this kind of party, so my mom let me use her home to hold it in!
My cat helping out ;)

We began the night before, me and my son made a ton and I mean a TON of Rice Krispie treats. House Party provided us with 4 boxes of cereal-we used 3 of the boxes and made about 5 trays of treats. The provided Rice Krispie bowl scrapers worked really well to cut square treats! I cut shapes of Ghosts, Pumpkins, Frankenstein Heads, and people shapes-to make their own Dracula, Zombie, Mummie, ect.

 Other fun foods we had were a Pumpkin veggie platter, cute little sandwiches, and Cheese balls.



When the kids arrived, (all decked out in their costumes) I had them decorate their cups with stickers and write their names on them. I poured them some Spooky Halloween Punch and gave them a fun pumpkin straw. Then we started on decorating the Rice Krispie treats. I provided orange frosting and chocolate frosting, gummy worms, gum drops, mini M&M's, and a ton of different sprinkles. Each kid made their own "contest treat" and the adults judged them at the end. (While judging, the kids munched on the other foods.) I used the Rice Krispie "Best of" award certificates for each treat to be a winner, All in different categories; For example: most hilarious, most creepy, ect. And each kid got to pick one of each prize, from the prize bowl. Which included: stickers, Halloween rings, fake Dracula teeth, glow bracelets, and glow in the dark lizards. And they got to take their winning treat home with them.



 After this, we played "Guess The Monster Parts" where I had a box with separate containers of gross feeling foods inside and the kids took turns feeling each one, then had to guess which part of the monster they thought it was. Blanched grapes were eyeballs, homemade Gak was snot, carrots were bones, cooked pasta was intestines, and baked cucumber slices were ears.
This game was full of laughter and many "Ew!!"s  haha. Check out some of the reactions of the kids below haha you gotta admit it's so much funnier when they're edited! :)
Then the kids did a coloring contest where they had to color their pumpkin and draw a face on it, all while their eyes were closed!! or at least not looking at the paper ;)
The winner of this won a box of Rice Krispies cereal =)



 We all had a lot of fun at our Halloween party!
   I think it turned out really great!!



*Thank you House party for providing me with cereal, bowl scrapers, and a chef hat, to get this party started!  


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My Cute Rice Krispie Kitty

As I previously wrote, we were chosen to hold a House Party for Kellogg's Rice Krispie treats. In the process of me and my son making a ton of treats, I would empty a cereal box of it's plastic, and throw the box on the floor. My kitty would run and slide across the floor to try her best to fit her little big body inside the boxes :) Eventually my husband set up a mini Rice Krispie box obstacle course for her :)






Guess The Monster Parts DIY Halloween Game

    Guess The Monster Parts in a box is one of the Halloween Games we played at our Halloween Party!
 
    It's super simple to make and the kids have a lot of fun feeling the parts and trying to guess what it is they are feeling!

   To begin, I had a good size box (the one I receive my House Party supplies in!) and I painted it a neon green and glued eyeballs all over. I came up with different textured foods to use and went to work.


I blanched grapes and boiled long noodles. 
Baked Cucumber slices and made homemade Gak. 
And grabbed some dried out carrots I had been waiting to use. 
 The kids reaching their hands in to feel the grossness :) 
Check out my party post to see their facial reactions!!

At the end of everyone feeling and guessing, 
I lifted the lid of the box and let them see inside, to see what they were feeling :)

It was gross and fun all in one!
 

DIY Spooky Halloween Punch

 
   Are you looking for a Spooky drink for Halloween? The Kool-Aid Punch recipe with a scary hand inside will be perfect to spook your guests!
 
 
 To begin, you need 3/4 cup of a Kool-Aid drink mix (mine was Tropical Punch flavor) and add 6 cups of hot water to it-to dissolve. After it's all mixed together and the sugars are dissolved, you add in 1 cup of orange juice and one cup of 7up or similar.  Mix well and refrigerate! I found that I needed to add a bit more 7up to counteract the sweetness from the Kool-Aid so do as needed. I made the punch the night before my Halloween party so it had plenty of time to cool.


   To make the spooky hand in the punch bowl, I took some of the pre made punch, added food coloring to change it from the red color to a darker purple color and poured it into a plastic glove. (pre-rinsed) I hung it from the shelf in my freezer, using a wooden clothes pin, and let it freeze until the party. Right after I poured the punch, I grabbed the frozen hand from the freezer and cut the top knot, to begin pulling the glove off. This part was trickier than expected which caused me to break part of a few fingers (oops!) But it still turned out pretty good! And the punch was tasty!

























My House Party Package

As a Member of House Party, I was selected to throw a Rice Krispie's Halloween Party!!



 In the House Party package, I received:


 4 boxes of Kellogg's Rice Krispies
1 Kellogg's Rice Krispies chef hat
1 Kellogg's Rice Krispies Mixing bowl 
13 Kellogg's Rice Krispies Bowl scrapers




Kinda sad that the chef hat doesn't fit me or my 5 year old son...but it's still a cute gesture :)

Here we are getting prepared to make our Rice Krispie Treats!
Thank you House party for providing me with cereal, bowl scrapers, and a chef hat, to get this party started!  

Stay tuned for our Rice Krispie Halloween Party post to come!!


Does This Church Make Me Look Fat - Book Review

Does This Church Make Me Look Fat  is a book written by Rhoda Janzen, 
who also wrote Mennonite in a Little Black Dress.


Rhoda, Grew up as a Mennonite, but hadn't really been in church since she was 12. Until she meets a religious Pentecostal man and falls in love, she begins going to church with him. She finds there's quite a difference between the two religions and often relates back to other in the book. Rhoda talks of the journey she goes through; finding God, being in love again, and dealing with issues in breast cancer.

I had a difficult time getting into this book. It never really stroke an interest for me. I did find a part of the book to keep with me though. Rhoda wrote "Altered circumstances give us only the opportunity to change. We actually have to do the work. We have to make the decision to gets things moving, and then we actually have to move them. We can't sit around and wait for other people to do our work for us. We can't even sit around waiting for God to do our work for us." This is a great piece because we really do have to step up and make things happen how we want. yes, sometimes what we want doesn't happen, but we have to get it moving. I especially like the first sentence "altered circumstances give us only the opportunity to change."  That sentence is a great answer for the questions we ask, 
as to why something happens. It happens to give us the opportunity to change.

This book, "Does This Church Make Me Look Fat" , I feel is only for certain target audiences, maybe the older crowd? I'm not sure. Though I'm thankful to have had the chance to review it, 
It is a book I will pass on keeping.

On a good note, One special reader has the chance to win this book!!
I will make this an easy entry too! All you have to do is leave me a comment with your email address and I will email the winner chosen, by November 5th!


This post is made possible by Global Influence network by providing me the book, in exchange for my review. 

Noxicare Natural Pain Relief

Noxicare is a new natural pain relief that contains seven of the world's most potent anti-inflammatory, natural pain relievers. Turmeric, Willow Bark, Ginger, Holy Basil, Rosemary, Alpha Lipoic Acid, and Boswellia, That is designed to quickly and effectively alleviate inflammation in muscle aches and nerve pain, with no known side effects. It is said to be unscented and non-greasy.

Studies have found that Noxicare is especially helpful in relieving paint from arthritis, athletic injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, neuropathy pain associated with diabetes, side effects of chemotherapy, musculoskeletal disorders, fibromyalgia, and tension headaches!
Noxicare is made to target the source of pain and naturally penetrate layers of skin to promote the body's own healing process; to relax the muscles and reduce inflammation while working to increase blood flow and calm nerve endings. 

I was very appreciative to be given Noxicare to review (they even threw in a t-shirt for me!) , as I have had not very fun back/hip pains for the last month+ I even had to go to the Dr. for the pain and get an x-ray to make sure things were ok in there. Turns out my muscles are just really messed up! Ha! I use to be fine...until I had a baby. lol. 
I ended up getting the whole sciatic nerve pains and since then, I've had this awful pain in my hips, that come and go. I try to exercise and do stretches and it only seems to get worse :( 
Probably because I tend to over do it though :/
But anyways, back to Noxicare. As soon as I received my tube of Noxicare, I put it on my aching hips and back. I first find that it is actually a pretty greasy rub, though it is said to not be. And it is unscented, but unscented scents even have their own smell lol. 
When I rubbed it in, I was expecting instant relief-to an extent-, such as how using Icy Hot or Tiger Balm works..but nothing. It felt as if I had rubbed ordinary lotion on. That was a bummer. I thought maybe my body just didn't react well to it the first time, so I've continued to use it and still nothing :( However, this morning I used it again and I felt a slight relief from the pain! But only for a little bit. I had my husband use Noxicare as well, as he has several athletic injuries and pains, and it did nothing for him too. I would say, I'm a bit dissapointed in this product, as it didn't work well enough for us to change our previous pain relief rubs..so we will continue to use Tiger Balm because I have always found that it helps, and plus, I like that I get to smell like a Christmas tree all day long ;)

*Update: after using Noxicare for awhile longer, I have slowly seen results of this cream helping ease my muscle pain. I apply it in the morning after a shower and it seems to help the pain til about lunch time. I then reapply it at night before bed. 

*If any of my special readers would like to win their very own Noxicare sample to try, leave me a message below telling me what ache/pain you would use your Noxicare on! (Don't forget to leave your email so I can contact the winners!) There will be 2 winners! :) 
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