Spooky Halloween Party

I forgot to take pictures of us carving pumpkins and/or the pumpkins. But, here are pictures of us at our family Halloween party. We had a great time!

Maggie as a vampire princess

White trash Garrett who's stuck in the 80's

Our sad little clown...she was very hungry and didn't want to take pictures

Our regal Queen of hearts (I forgot to mention that I did chop her hair off--brushing out all the rats every morning and fighting her tears was too much!)

and our Beaver cheerleader

I went as a gypsy/fortune teller/Professor Trelawny (from Harry Potter)

We had our usual spooky dinner, except this time I made breakfast for dinner. We had swamp pie (an egg and sausage casserole), pumpkin flesh (cantaloupe), zombie scabs (bacon), Ogre eyeball soup (hot chocolate with marshmallows for eyes), lizard tongues (bananas), spider web surprise (cinnamon rolls) and owl hearts (strawberries). It was delicious!!


While Garrett and I cleaned up dinner and got Bella to bed, the girls did some Halloween activities like dot to dots and making words out of Halloween words and coloring pages.

Then we played a memory game. I showed them a tray of 21 objects and they could look at them for a minute. I took the tray away and they had to write down as many objects as they could remember. It was kind of hard. I even played even though I had gathered all the items; and I couldn't remember them all. My memory is awful anyway!

Then we played a few relay races. The first one was a feather race where they had to blow a feather across the floor with a straw. This proved to be more difficult than I thought. But, Garrett and Lydia won that one. Then we tried to see who could scoop out the most cotton balls out of a bowl in 30 seconds using a spoon. Garrett likes to not follow the rules and decided he was going to do it a different way:

by using his face and facial hair! What a nut! Then, he started this:

Our last game was a treasure hunt where they had clues that led to keys that led to a prize. They had to dig though a bunch of spiders to find a key, and then had to put together a monster:
Paige's monster--a mummy
Lydia's skeleton
They also had to search for a key in some whipped cream (that unfortuneatly melted before they got to it)
Garrett with his key

and Maggie loving the whipped cream!
The last thing they had to do is to decode a message telling them where their prize was hidden. Hopefully, they had a good time. I always have fun coming up with ideas and getting ready for it.
These two pictures are from Halloween night. Maggie's the only one that is a little different.

Garrett stayed home and passed out candy this year. I did it last year and really wanted to go out with the kids this year. It was a lot of fun. Bella absolutely loved walking around and carrying her pumpkin basket. She stood at the doors with the other girls and waited for her candy then said a quiet, Thank you. She was so excited walking from house to house. It was really cute. I put her in the stroller on our way home and she looked through her candy very excitedly pulling them out and wanting me to open them. She can say "candy" and has been asking for since she got back from Trick-or-Treating. She is such a big girl!

We always have so many trick-or-treaters and it is so fun and exciting! We ran out of candy again this year sometime around 8ish. I bet I had about 10 lbs of candy. I guess we'll have to get a little more next year!