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Among Us DIY Halloween Pumpkin

By: dmvollmer

Among Us DIY Halloween Pumpkin

Among Us is the latest popular video game for tweens and teens. Are your kids playing yet?  If you haven’t heard, it’s a multiplayer online game involving social deduction. In a space setting, players are either Crewmates or Imposters. The game was released in 2018 but has really picked up in popularity in the last […]

No-Carve Nerf Blaster Target Halloween Pumpkin

By: dmvollmer

No-Carve Nerf Blaster Target Halloween Pumpkin

Nerf dart guns, Nerf vortex, and the newest Nerf Rival. Nerf. Nerf is a big deal in our home. My son has been into Nerf blasters for a few years now with his collection growing. By growing I mean it’s hit almost 100. So many that we had to build a huge Nerf wall in our playroom […]

Easy No-carve Fortnite Xbox Pumpkin For Your Gamer Kids

By: dmvollmer

Easy No-carve Fortnite Xbox Pumpkin For Your Gamer Kids

Flossing, Battle Pass, Season 6…is this all your kids are talking about? Fornite is the biggest obsession for kids right now. We’re excited to see all the Fortnite Halloween costumes this year. Skull Trooper Fornite Halloween costume Drift Fornite Halloween costume Dark Voyager Fornite Halloween costume We love to create pumpkins that really fit our family’s interests. […]

No-carve Halloween Football Pumpkin

By: dmvollmer

No-carve Halloween Football Pumpkin

Are you a football family? hometown NFL team? College alma mater? or are your weekends spent cheering at your kid’s football games? Show your football spirit with these easy football pumpkins this Halloween. Also, a baseball fan, check out our DIY no-carve Baseball Pumpkin Easy Football Pumpkins supplies needed: Oval shaped craft pumpkin round shaped […]

Happy Halloween

By: dmvollmer

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from our family to yours. Hope you’re having a fabulous evening. Stay safe.

Halloween Home Tour

By: dmvollmer

Halloween Home Tour

Its the time of the year again! Decorating for Halloween is one of my favorites along with Christmas and Easter. This year I decided to simplify decorating a hallway table for Halloween and the rest of the house for fall (which can stay decorating for an extra month). Outside, of course, was all Halloween. This is […]

Halloween Home Tour 2016

By: dmvollmer

Halloween Home Tour 2016

It’s October, have you decorated for Halloween yet? I love decorating for Halloween and count down the days until I can pull out the decorations – I make myself wait until October 1st. With such a long stretch of no holidays through the summer, its fun to make the house festive again. And I just love […]

Halloween Home Tour 2015

By: dmvollmer

Halloween Home Tour 2015

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays to decorate the house for – I do both the inside and outside. This year I contain the indoor decorations to the mantel, kitchen table and kitchen island with other areas of my home with fall decor (which will stay up through Thanksgiving). The skeleton and 31 signs […]

Spooky Fun Halloween Lunches

By: dmvollmer

Spooky Fun Halloween Lunches

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SnackAndGo#CollectiveBias I love to make fun holiday themed food. Over the years I’ve collected cutters, cupcake liners, napkins, skewers and picks, and edible markers for making fun lunches. I love to use divided lunch boxes, also called bento […]

Zombie Baseball Player – Makeup and Costume Tutorial

By: dmvollmer

Zombie Baseball Player – Makeup and Costume Tutorial

Thinking about Halloween yet? Zombie has been one our favorite Halloween costumes that my son has worn over the years. We always try to come up with a DIY costume rather than store bought one that everyone else will have.   We love to make our own costumes. I like to create a costume using […]

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Hi there and welcome to Sweet Shoppe Mom. My name is Dana and my son is Brendan, also known as B. Welcome to our blog where we chat about every day life with tweens and teens.

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Never to old for some St Patrick’s Day fun ☘️

No lephrecan traps anymore but some leprechan shanigans with green toilet water 🤣 and a basket of green snacks. @luckycharms for breakfast and Thirsty Lion for a yummy dinner of Corned Beef & Cabbage and bread pudding.

We celebrated yesterday because with #coparenting B is at his dads for the rest of the week. If your kids aren’t with you for a holiday, pick your own day to celebrate. The fun and memories are more important than being upset about missing out. 

#lifewithteens #stpatricksday #luckycharms #teenagersareawesome #boymom #thisis16 #arizonamom
I am strong, I am creative ❤️ It’s Girl Scou I am strong, I am creative ❤️ It’s Girl Scout cookie time which also means its time for the Girl Scout Cookie Dessert Challenge and once again the @eatatzuzu have created a masterpiece as this month’s Show Stopper Shake.

Lady Lemon 🍋 blueberry milkshake with a lemon curd drip topped with Girl Scouts Lemon-Ups, a blueberry muffin, lemon ice cream bar, fresh blueberries, lemon chips, white chocolate milk crumb, a Lemon-Ups whipped cream sandwich + lemon candy

$1 of each shake sold will go to Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus-Pine

➡️ vote now in the 2022 Girl Scout Cookie Dessert Challenge. Voting ends February 28 at 11:59 p.m., and you can vote once per day. Voting link: https://www.girlscoutsaz.org/en/cookies/cookie-dessert-challenge.html

#hotelvalleyhomediapartner #hotelvalleyho #zuzu #scottsdale #arizona #girlscoutcookie #lemon
Fabulous performance by @tanzanite_africanacro at Fabulous performance by @tanzanite_africanacro at @themadisoncfa this weekend. Such a fun and entertaining mix of dance, music and amazing acrobatic skills.

We’re excited about the upcoming shows at The Madison - some great ones for families with teens

* 3/10 - @memphisjookin 
* 3/31-4/3 - 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour of @rentonstage 

For more details and tickets 👉 themadison.org

#themadisonmediapartner #themadison #phoenix #phoenixarts #phoenixtheatre #arizona #arizonamoms #momofteens #boymom
Happy Birthday Arizona! 110 years today, Arizona b Happy Birthday Arizona! 110 years today, Arizona became the 48th state.

This still blows my mind how young this state is. Growing up in PA, we focused most of our American history lessons on the 13 original colonies and covered the rest of the country in about 2 weeks so it was all a blur. When AZ was celebrating its 100, I was like what? Really? Only 100 years 

#arizona #phoenix #sedona #flagstaff #grandcanyon #state48
Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated! Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

Who else grew up watching Laverne & Shirley? The show ran 1976-1983 and I watched the last few years and reruns of course. 

Last weekend Cindy Williams’ show @memyselfandshirley was at the @herbergertheater in downtown Phoenix and it was fabulous! A mix of personal stories and the Laverne & Shirley’s most iconic clips. Me, Myself & Shirley is continuing to tour the rest of the year through the US so if you grew up with the show, you must check it out.

#evolveprpartner #herbergertheater #phoenix #dtwnphx #arizona #laverneandshirley #cindywilliams
That’s a wrap! Final day of 50th Anniversary @ba That’s a wrap! Final day of 50th Anniversary @barrett_jackson Scottsdale Car Auction and the unoffical kickoff to event season with @wmphoenixopen, @thecactusleague spring training, food festivals and so much more as we enjoy the best weather of the year while the rest of the country is covering in ❄️❄️❄️

So many amazing cars from brand new seen before models to old classics. B loved the @chevrolet thrill ride but I hope it didn’t give this new driver any ideas.

More than $8.8 Million was raised in the charity auctions…I’m jealous of the winners of the 2022 @toyotausa Tundra hybrid early production model but it was a little out of my budget. 

⬅️ swip for #flashback to the first Barrett-Jackson car auction we attended in 2017. 

#barrettjackson #scottsdale #momofteens #boymom #carshow #thisis16 #arizona #arizonamom
This kid turned 16th recently 🎂 So proud of the This kid turned 16th recently 🎂 So proud of the young man he is becoming, definitely not a kid anymore. At 5’11 1/2” (not quite 6 ft) he now towers over me and since I’m 5’9” it feels so strange to look up to him now. Parenting in the teen years is so different with my focus guiding him towards independence, maturity and life skills. Preparing him for what’s beyond graduation. 

I’m late to sharing. But we also have spread out his birthday celebrating due to coparenting schedules and his busy teen social liffe. Also we had originally planned his ‘cake’ to follow when we went out to dinner on his birthday eve but we both ate too much and there was no way we could have eaten anymore 🤣 But nothing wrong with keeping the celebration going for a few weeks. 

I offered to make him a fancy cake…I did own a custom cake shop after all, but he requested a chocolate chip cookie skillet instead. Much simpler and less dishes so I’m good with that. 

#thisis16 #momofteens #boymom #arizonamom #arizonateen #birthday #skilletcookie #coparenting #divorcedmom
Celebrating National Popcorn Day with @kethero, lo Celebrating National Popcorn Day with @kethero, locally owned right here in Tempe, AZ #eatlocal. Sooooo kany tasty flavors - which would you choose? Right now I’m quite happy here munching on the Hatch Green Chile Cheddar 

*Hatch Green Chile Cheddar
*Prickly Pear
*Popcorn Zen
*Original Sweet and Salty 
*Aged White Cheddar
*Porcini Truffle Cheddar
*Sea Salted Caramel
*Cinnamon Sugar Churros

#nationalpopcornday #gifted #popcorn #kettlecorn #hatchgreenchile #arizona #tempeaz #azeats #phxeats
Tip - have a few holiday crafts set out on a table Tip - have a few holiday crafts set out on a table. Great when you just need a break. If you can get your teens to join in its a great way to spend some time catching up.

Diamond painting ornament kits from Amazon (link in bio). Inexpensive and super easy, yet fun!, project.

Puzzles and gingerbread houses (get the pre-assembled ones) are great too

#holidaycrafts #diamondpainting #christmas@#christmascrafts #lifewithteens #momofteens #boymom #arizonamom #familycrafts
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