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Medieval Festival of Fun!

Renaissance Festival

Let us go back to a time of dueling swordsmen, rowdy pirates and jousting knights; where one can dine with royalty or dance with the peasants.

Renaissance Festival

Medieval and Renaissance Festival’s are fun for the entire family and what better place to show off that Renaissance costume you’ve been dying to wear!  Visiting a Renaissance Faire let’s you step back in time and makes you feel as if you’re actually living in the 16th century and a part of history. 

There’s so much to see and do at a Renaissance festival!  Go for a weekend because you’ll need more than one day to dance with the gypsies, juggle with the jesters or parlay with the pirates.  Where else can you see valiant Medieval knights charge into battle fighting for the Queen’s honor. 

Renaissance Faire

If you get a chance, go to a Renaissance festival.  We took our children last weekend and it was so much fun!  The performers and costumes were so beautiful.  We’re definitely going back!

Come all ye knights and damsels, and click here to see if there’s a Renaissance Faire in your neck of the woods!

That’s The Way We Became The Brady Bunch!

The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch

Halloween is a holiday best celebrated with lots of family and friends; the more the merrier!  That’s why group costumes are so popular.  Nobody wants to trick-or-treat alone!

There are so many great themes to pick from when choosing group costumes.  My favorite by far is “The Brady Bunch”.  I grew up watching the show and can still remember many of the episodes – who doesn’t!  The Brady Bunch taught us many important life lessons – such as donning a huge Afro wig will make one more popular, how to sport a groovy man perm, taking an ancient tiki from Hawaii is a sure way to get you cursed and exaggerating to your friends will get Davy Jones to sing at your prom.

Besides all that, the Brady Bunch gave us a sense of style!  There wasn’t a family out there that could put together outrageous vintage outfits quite like Mike, Carol, Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby, and Cindy!

This Halloween I’m definitely getting my husband to dress as Mike and I’m donning the Carol Brady costume!  Florence Henderson (who played Carol all those years) is putting on her dancing shoes to complete in “Dancing With The Stars” which airs on ABC in a couple weeks and I know Carol Brady is going to be one hot dance momma! 

I’m sad that my children are too young to appreciate the phenomenon known as The Brady Bunch, but I’m sure my brothers and sisters will be more than happy to portray one of the Brady’s in a Brady Bunch costume

Without a doubt we’ll win first place in any costume contest this Halloween!

Ahoy Matey! International “Talk Like A Pirate Day” is September 19th!

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Ok, how many of you honestly knew about this so-called pirate holiday?  I admit, I’d never heard about it until one of my friends brought it to my attention.  She has young children and admitted to playing up to the holiday as a great way to spend some quality time with her kids.  Well, it worked and over the years it’s spread throughout their neighborhood to where every September 19th, you feel as though you’ve just walked on to the set of Pirates of the Caribbean!

If this sounds like fun to you, check out how the original buccaneers behind “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” John Baur and Mark Summers came up with the idea, what it’s all about…fun and how you too can talk just like a High Seas Buccaneer.  Believe me, it’s a great fun-filled website and kids of all ages (even those grown-up ones) will have a blast bringing this holiday to life! 

However, to get the whole feel for the ”Talk Like a Pirate” Day, you must dress like one!  HalloweenExpress.com has all the pirate costumes you’ll need.  They have everything from a child’s Sassy Swashbuckler Costume to an adults Captain Black Heart Pirate Costume and everything in between. 

Don’t get caught without your pirate costume on September 19th or you’ll be made to walk the plank!

A Family That “Shrek’s” Together, Stays Together!

Shrek Costumes

Shrek Costumes

Ever since May 2001, the lovable ogre Shrek has become a household name.  Today, with three more movies added to the franchise, Shrek and his friends are more popular than ever!

All the movies are hilarious!  I can’t say enough good things about them.  It’s such a great animated film that you can take the whole family to.  My kids loved it and I think my husband and I were laughing even harder than they were. 

For the past eight years, Halloween costumes for the Shrek characters fly off the shelves during the holiday and this year will be no different.  There’s so many great characters to choose from when it comes to picking out your Halloween costume; Princess Fiona, Donkey, Puss in Boots and the Three Blind Mice are so much fun to dress up as.  

Since the latest movie in the series was just released a couple months ago called “Shrek Forever After“, Shrek and his friends are back on the scene!   This Halloween make it a family night by everyone dressing as a character from the movie!  Dad can be Shrek, mom can be Princess Fiona and have the kids dress up as Donkey, Puss in Boots or even the Gingerbread Man.  The possibilities are endless and fun!

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