Family Halloween Party

We had our Family Halloween Party on October 30th.  My parents and Garrett's parents brought costumes from home.  For our family, we played the Costume game again.  I love everyone's costumes.  Lydia--Little Red Riding Hood, Bella--Cheerleader, Paige--Movie Star, Maggie--Hippy and Noah--Cowboy.  He LOVED the toy gun.  Oh boy.   

Costumes

 Garrett was a pirate and I was a waitress. 

 They crack me up.  Here, they've just moved in, but were still able to find great costumes. 

 More great costumes!  It was so fun!

Me and my hot pirate!

 The whole group.

I guess I didn't take an individual picture of Maggie's costume.

The first order of business was dinner. 

These were our two tables.  I was going with the spider theme this year.  I have to thank my mom for all of her help this year, or I wouldn't have finished all of my crazy plans in time.  It was fun to work with her on these parties that we both love. 

 The cute little spider plates that my mom made. 

 The menus for the year. 

 I didn't do a very good job at taking pictures of the food this year.  Things are always so hectic when you start serving the food. 

The eyeball salad was a yummy grape salad with cream cheese and pecans that I found on pinterest.  So good!

Monsters were these brownies for dessert.  Again, they were found on pinterest. 

Zombie explosion was pizza that we got at Papa Murphey's.  Good, quick and easy!

Devil's Delight was the drink concoction...grape and orange kool-aid mixed together. 

Witch's fingers were garlic breadsticks. 

Toad warts were olives--a big hit with my kids. 

 Eating dinner.  My mom served dinner to the smaller table and I served food to my family. 

Trying to finish my food before the games start. 

Games

Our first game was a ring toss game with witch's hats.  I used glow bracelets for the rings. 

 Noah absolutely loved this game.  He had such a fun time!  He was tossing those rings everywhere. 

 Bella had a great time too.  I think they each did this like 3 or 4 times. 

 I think this picture is awesome, even if it is a little blurry. 

 The next game was ghost bowling.  Noah and Bella are the perfect ages for these games.  They had so much fun!  It makes all the 'getting ready' for the party worth it. 

This was Maggie's way of bowling.  She's such a knucklehead...

 The next game was (don't know a name for it), hitting a beach ball with a broom from one side of the house to the other.  This one didn't work out as well as I would've liked.  They were on two teams and each had to take a turn guiding the ball with the broom stick from point A to point B.  I was going to tape down a trail for them to follow, but didn't have time.  I wish I would've done it because I think it would've helped to avoid some confusion in the middle of the game.  Oh well. 

Bella's skirt is like 3X too big.  I pinned it twice before the party started, but it fell off as she was having her turn.  Quite funny. 

 The next game was this Halloween Clue Hunt that I found on pinterest.  I had to change it up just a bit because we didn't want to go outside.  It was fun though.  The little kids teamed up...Noah with Garrett, Bella with Grandma Hansen and Paige with Grandpa Hansen.  Lydia and Maggie went solo. 

Bella searching through a pile of bones and leaves looking for a clue. 

 Reading the next clue with Cruella

 Lydia searching for a clue with a key with grandma McKibben

 Bella looking for the key

 Lydia found her clue by the ghost

 so did Grandpa

 Finding clues in the tree

I know this picture is blurry, but I couldn't focus fast enough to capture Garrett "knocking" Maggie and Lydia to the couch so he could get ahead.  So Garrett...I love their faces in the back ground. 

 Garrett and Noah find the prize first!

 Paige and Grandpa find their prize.

And our last game was eating donuts off a string. 

 The younger kids went first.

I don't think that Noah participated...he ate his donut afterward

 Then Lydia and Maggie

 Then the adults.  The adults worked in teams because a lot of the donuts I had were broken.  I love how the guys all have their mouths open in this picture. 

This is how Jim and Georgia ended up.  So cute!

Well, that was the end of the party.  I think everyone had fun and that's why I do these things.  So my kids can have fun and have great memories to look back on. 

I just wanted to add a few more pictures of some new decorations for this year. 

 First off are my bats.  I LOVE them!  They were so easy to make.  Just copied a template onto construction paper and cut out. 

 Second is my new witch that I found at JoAnn's.  She's the big one in purple and black.  I absoutely adore her face.  She's perfect!