Vanessa Rivera

#ad #BKpartner As you know, we LOVE Halloween in this house! 👻So when @Burger King invited us out for lunch to try their Addams Family Halloween menu, we HAD to go all out and make it an Addams.. I mean… Rivera family outing! Watch The Addams Family.

Deep the woods past the old road, There lived a bossy witch and Jimmy the Toad 🐸 This one was soooo much fun! It took us weeks to dumpster dive for these blocks and carving it in the questionable woods at midnight was an adventure in itself but now we have a pumpkin house to bring out every Fall 😍 I originally planned on making a night version too but as you can see I ran out of time 😅 Anyone else feel like you blinked and Halloween is here? 🙋🏻‍♀️ ok but seriously how cute is Vienna’s witchy cackle! 😅 #halloween #MomsofTikTok #photomagic

This Beetlejuice photo took foreverrrrr to make! I remember telling Anthony it would only take like 3 days, so when I was 14 days in, he just gave me a long side eye 😂 The worm alone took like 5 days between sewing it and making all the tiny teeth. Also, thank goodness I’m not a sculptor because Bob’s head just came out terrifying 😅 but Vienna struggling to wobble around with him on her head was the highlight! We were dyyying 🤭 Anyway as Vienna mentioned in the video, the original shoot didn’t work out at the sand dunes, Vienna wasn’t cooperating, the boys were having too much fun chasing each other with the worm and my vision wasn’t giving. Sometimes that happens. Things don’t work out as you planned so you just gotta improvise. As soon as we got home I jumped out the car and literally threw this together in 2 hours and somehow pulled this shoot together as a team. I’m sure my neighbors have a “we hate the life of aivax”Facebook page somewhere but I’m so proud of my little family team and I’m so happy I finally got to create a Beetlejuice photo 🪲🧃🫶 #beetlejuice #MomsofTikTok #halloween #photomagic

🎂Today I turn 35 😭😭 I remember the days when I thought 35 was old 😅🤣 the audacity! Every year I take my birthday as an opportunity to reflect. Sometimes we can be our own worst critics…comparing our childhood dreams to where we are now can make it seem like you haven’t grown much in life at all. But in reality that’s far from true. Sometimes we just need a little life recap. Last year we got to go to one of our favorite places on earth for Halloween, Ireland! 💚 rewatching this footage made me ugly laugh 😂😂 gosh we were a hot mess. Driving and hiking long hours with arms full of props, props falling apart midway shoots, embarrassing ourselves in front of crowds of tourist, the unforgiving green suits that we have yet to edit footage for 🙃, BUT we had soooo much fun and learned so much, and that makes me so happy 💛 I put a lot of pressure on myself to create good content, and I never feel like it’s at the level I wish it could be. But looking back, I can see that we actually are growing in our craft. As you might know, this year was rocky for me emotionally, physically and mentally. And during that turbulence it was hard to see all the growth I’ve made as a person. I am not perfect, nor do I want to be but I am learning to love myself and believe in myself. I have been so lucky to experience such beautiful things, and I’m so grateful for that. Things didn’t turn out like I imagined but at the end of the day, I think little me might be proud after all 🥲 Here’s to another year of making fun Halloween content with my family for all my internet friends and keeping on this journey of growing into the person I want to be 🎈🫶🥂 #halloween #MomsofTikTok #photomagic

My hope is that when I am long gone, and it’s my turn to have my photo on their ofrendas, that they remember these moments and this beautiful family and cultural tradition we shared together over the years. I hope I leave them with the understanding that they will always be remembered, loved and their life celebrated. This is a small collection of our past Dia De Los Muertos family portraits, and I can’t wait to share this years soon 🇲🇽✨🫶 #diadelosmuertos #dayofthedead #familia