A Scooby Doo Birthday Mystery . . .

Warning: You may suffer from spookiness-overload if you read this post. But it's totally worth it!

Party number two, you ask? Why yes. Winn is a very special girl who totally deserved two birthday parties this year. And this Scooby Doo bash put our glut-fest to shame.

Last weekend, Mystery Inc. reunited to solve a very serious, mysterious disappearance: The Case of the Birthday Phantom and the Missing Party Favors. These two lovely ladies, "Delma" and Daphne sprang into action the minute they smelled foul play.

Who could believe it? While grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends showed up to help Winnie celebrate the big 5, that rotten Birthday Phantom breezed in and grabbed the kids' goody-bags!

Lucky thing we had Scooby Doo to sniff out some clues! And it was also fortunate that Tukk and Klive, although 2 years apart, wear the same size costume!

Sleuths get hungry, you know. Good thing we stocked up on monster munchies packed full of energy. And sugar. And nitrates.

Everyone pitched in to help solve the mystery. Auntie Rylee was the designated clue reader in the gang's hunt for justice.

And Aunt Misty, (AKA Fred) made one heck of a phantom hunter.

The gang tracked down a few haunted-household clues that led them to the treacherous toilet and instructed them to decode a backwards message in the mystery mirror.

While mixing some witches' brew, Daddy spotted some suspicious footprints that lead outback. The gang set off for Johnson's Haunted Wood.

Wouldn't you know it, Scooby got scared and took off. The only way to earn his cooperation was to toss a few Scooby snacks into his gaping mouth. Rum-Rum!!! Once Scooby came on-board, the crew popped a few balloon ghosts to get some answers out of them. Literally.

Thanks to his sweet walking skillz, clumsy Freddy accidentally knocked over a skeleton. In order to locate the next clue, the gang had to put it back together.

Delma's no slouch when it comes to anatomically-correct skeleton construction.

Too bad she got spooked and dropped her glasses right in the slimy swamp.

Daphne dug through the bubbles, fog and creepy-crawlies and fished them out for her . . .

And Caulder, I mean Shaggy, read the next clue.

A creepy mummy kidnapped Daphne, the damsel always in distress. Lucky we had brave young master Dawson . . .

He volunteered to be wrapped like a mummy and dove into the tomb to rescue the fair maiden - and the next clue.

The sleuths had to eat their way to the next clue - hanging donuts of death.

Eating junk food - now that's a Scooby and Shaggy specialty!

Daphne proved she could hold her own when it came to devouring donuts for a good cause.

Delma must have been serious about eating her fair share, because she had to take her wig off to get down to business. Daddy made a good wig rack.

Next, Mystery Inc. had to crawl through the spooky, spider-infested web warehouse to unravel a hidden clue.

Delma could have easily gotten wound up in the massive web and eaten by a giant spider if it wasn't for her fearless friends.

Finally, the Scooby Doo crew showed off their very best zombie dance moves in a rousing game of musical tomb stones. The winners (Dawson and Delma) cracked the case wide open when they uncovered phantom tracks leading directly into the garage.

They bolted after the thief, ripped off his mask and discovered the phantom to be . . .



DADDY???

Awww, man! Caught red-handed! And he would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids and their stinky dog, too!

Amid all the commotion, mom had to solve her own mystery. The Case of the Disappearing Baby. She promptly found Klive all wrapped up in the haunted house.

So in the end, Mystery Inc. saved the day, recovered the stolen party packs, and feasted on some gourmet Scooby snack cupcakes.

Delma let Winnie have the rest of the day off so she could open her presents, play with her cousins, and spend a little quality time with Uncle Andrew.

She got lots of cool stuff . . .

And said it was the BEST PARTY EVER!!!!!