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Halloween 2024 Recap

October 31, 2024

Another spooky season is wrapping up. This Halloween season was a good one. We made some new DIY, scrambled for last-minute costumes, and whipped up a bunch of new cocktails. Here’s our Halloween 2024 recap…but first, pumpkin picking and apple cider donuts! Cocktails We mixed up a ton of new cocktails this month, including some blackberry margaritas, blackberry whisky cocktails, and these apple cider cocktails. DIY Projects I crafted these…

October 31, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ Halloween

Five Halloween Products on Amazon

October 7, 2024

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year and these FIVE PRODUCTS on AMAZON are going to help you elevate your spooky season celebrations. To get you ready for this year’s spooky season, I’m laying out my top five must-have halloween products. You can get all of this on Amazon right now, links are below. Lilies and Loafers has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share…

October 7, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ Wedding

Anniversary Photo Album

September 27, 2024

To celebrate our ten year wedding anniversary, we treated ourselves to a summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard. However, I wanted to get another little something for Fatima. We have a big gallery wall and some photos around the house, but not many photo albums. I thought maybe I could design an anniversary photo album that captured the last ten years of our time together, our travels, and our kids. I…

September 27, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ New England/ Travel/ Wedding

Martha’s Vineyard in October: Revisiting our Honeymoon

September 4, 2024

When we were planning our honeymoon, we were set on Cabo San Lucas. About two weeks before our wedding, hurricane Odile terrorized the Baja California Peninsula, with Cabo getting hit hard. It was the most violent hurricane in Cabo's history. We prayed for everyone's safety and the area's recovery. We put our Cabo plans on ice, and pivoted to Martha's Vineyard in October.…

September 4, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ Wedding

Revisiting our Wedding a Decade Later

August 16, 2024

In just six weeks, Fatima and I will be celebrating our 10th Wedding Anniversary! It is absolutely WILD to think we will be hitting this milestone. So much as happened in these last ten years, yet there’s so much more to do. One of the best things to happen since we’ve been married, has been starting our family. Fatima and I wanted to revisit our wedding: the good, the great,…

August 16, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ Christmas/ DIY

DIY Map Christmas Ornaments

July 24, 2024

Don’t throw away your maps from all the traveling you’ve done. Do this instead. This DIY project will take you 20 minutes. It’s perfect for a special gift throughout the year or for Christmas because these DIY Map Ornaments can be personalized for anyone and any adventure. 10 years ago, I made our first map Christmas ornament reflecting our honeymoon to Martha’s Vineyard. Over the last decade, our map ornament…

July 24, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ DIY/ Family Fun/ Gift Guides/ Parenting

Summer Fun Bucket Gift Guide

May 22, 2024

I love celebrating the everyday moments. I think I inherited that from my parents. Whether it was our 6th birthday or 21st, we always had a party. At the end of the school year, we’d celebrate with a trip to the toy store (I’d usually pick out something from LEGO). Aced an exam? Let’s celebrate. Got that lead role in a school play? A trip to Dairy Queen! Now, I’m…

May 22, 2024 By Brian

Birthday/ DIY/ Family Fun/ Parenting/ Side Dishes

Blair’s Second Birthday: Disney Pixar Cars

January 24, 2024

Our youngest is now two years old and we are still recovering. We asked Blair how he wanted to celebrate his birthday, and he replied, “cars.” And that’s how we ended up with a 2 Fast 2 Furious Pixar Cars theme. Blair loves cars. Hot Wheels, Jeeps, Hess trucks, pretty much any vehicle. But above all else, he loves Pixar’s Cars. He loves the movies, he loves the merch, he…

January 24, 2024 By Brian

All Recipes/ Beverages/ Celebrations/ Christmas/ Comfort Food

Starbucks Medicine Ball Tea

January 20, 2024

January is Hot Tea Month! What a fitting time of year to celebrate a mug of coziness. I have a favorite tea for you. Otherwise known as Honey Citrus Mint Tea on the menu, Starbucks’ Medicine Ball Tea will warm you from the inside out. Throat feeling a little soar? Not feeling your best self? You can also make this legendary tea at home! My mom filled our Christmas stockings…

January 20, 2024 By Brian

Celebrations/ New Year/ Side Dishes

2023 Round Up: Best of the Blog

January 8, 2024

Happy New Year! 2023 was filled with so many family adventures, milestones, and delicious food. 2024 will have a lot more of that, and we are looking forward to celebrating everything, including our youngest’s second birthday (his first). But first, here’s a round up of our top posts and videos in 2023. 2023 Round Up: Best of the Blog Favorite Glow Up Post We like to go back to our…

January 8, 2024 By Brian

Birthday/ DIY/ Family Fun/ Parenting/ Side Dishes

Liam’s Subway Themed Birthday

November 25, 2023

We have a five year old. When Liam was born, I couldn’t imagine him at a year old, let alone five years old. It’s bonkers, but here we are. When talking to Liam about what he wanted to do for his birthday, the first thing that came to mind was the subway: he wanted a subway themed birthday. So how do we pull this off? He also wanted to go…

November 25, 2023 By Brian

All Recipes/ Autumn/ Celebrations/ Dad Bakes Cookies/ Dessert/ Thanksgiving

How We Make the Best Apple Pie

October 28, 2023

A previous version of this post for How We Make The Best Apple Pie was published in October 2012. We took new photos, reworded the written content, included our YouTube video, and adjusted the recipe. AKA we gave this post a major facelift. Apple Pie is one of my favorite desserts to make in autumn. The warm spices, soft and slightly crunchy baked apples, and a flaky pie crust is just…

October 28, 2023 By Brian

DIY/ Family Fun/ Halloween/ Parenting/ Side Dishes

Super Mario Costumes: Halloween 2023

October 27, 2023

Another Halloween is upon us! When brainstorming for our Halloween costumes this year, Fatima and I looked to our kids. What did they do this year, what did they watch, what were they obsessed with? We had short list: Cars, Paw Patrol, Super Mario. Spoiler alert, we went with Super Mario costumes. Cars was easy to remove from the list. Too involved. We seriously considered Paw Patrol. We looked at…

October 27, 2023 By Brian

Celebrations/ DIY/ Halloween

Frankenstein Handprints Halloween Cards

October 25, 2023

Last year, we did a lot of pumpkin crafts for Halloween. This year, I am trying to diversify with monsters, bats, and other creepy things. The ghost handprints were a huge hit with the kids, so we made these Frankenstein handprints in more Halloween cards. We had another rainy weekend, so we spent the day building LEGOs, reading, and crafting. Liam and I were doing some Halloween crafts while Blair…

October 25, 2023 By Brian

DIY/ Family Fun/ Halloween/ Parenting/ Side Dishes

DIY Puffy Ghosts and Puffy Bats

October 24, 2023

We’ve done a lot of crafting this season, and here’s another one for you to do with the kids in your life. Liam and I had a ton of fun making these puffy ghosts and puffy bats. We used a lot of craft supplies we already had in stock. There were a ton of cotton balls and black pompoms left over from our summer of crafts. Making the Puffy Ghosts…

October 24, 2023 By Brian

Celebrations/ DIY/ Halloween/ Side Dishes

DIY Floating Candles like in Hogwarts Great Hall

October 3, 2023

The last time we had floating candles in our house, we were throwing a Harry Potter-themed Halloween party. That was one of my favorite parties to-date. For spooky season, we’re trying some out of the box floating candles and having a lot of fun along the way. This year, we bought this set of floating candles on Amazon. Lilies and Loafers has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small…

October 3, 2023 By Brian

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