Happy Belated Halloween!
To my surprise they were excited about the idea!!! I can't remember if it was Rachel or Elizabeth, but one of them said, "Oh good, we won't have to see all the scary costumes." So we started planning. I sat Elizabeth in front of the computer looking up ideas on the Family Fun Magazine web site. We decided to invite another family to join us to make it more fun, and fun they did have!
While we waited for our friends to arrive the kids went trick or treating to a few neighbors. They were eager to get going but I needed to run back in the house to grab something. I told them to wait just a minute and when I went outside I found the four of them sitting on the grass in a little line. It was one of those moments as a Mom, when you stop and think, these kids really are sweet. John & Sarah knew just what to say when the door opened and it was so fun to see them so excited. But after walking to three houses Sarah was tired and worn out. When each house sits in the center of a 3/4 to a full acre lot there is a lot of walking.
Our party menu for the consisted of mini pizzas in the shapes of pumpkins, bats, ghosts & cats, ghost bread sticks, eyeballs on a fork and green kool-aid. Unfortunately the only picture I took was of our eyeballs.
No party would complete without some games. They dug for bones in the wood chips of the playground, then had to reassemble Mr. Skeleton.
And they fed spiders to a bat.
My personal favorite was the mummy wrap. Each family was given two rolls of toilet paper and had to use it to wrap their Dad up like a mummy.
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| the Hicks family Mummy |
It took us a long time before we had very much TP that stayed on our "mummy" because Sarah would come along and break the strips. But we finally did it. John of course loved all of the pieces that Sarah ripped.
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| the Strong family Mummy |
With a bunch of little girls (our three and their three) you have to have a craft. So we decorated cupcakes. Elizabeth had chosen to make bat cupcakes, but I think I am the only one who made a bat. They just had fun putting candy on the cupcakes, next time we will simply do Jack-o-Lantern cupcakes.
We ended the night by trick or treating from room to room.
After the trick-o-treating all the girls wanted to play one more game so we had a pumpkin toss with fun Halloween music courtesy of Aunt Mallori's blog. While we were all busy doing this John helped himself to the candy from the cupcake decorating,to at least one cupcake and several eyeballs (which were doughnut holes covered in white chocolate). As soon as I would find him eating one thing and take it away he would find another. I realized he had eaten too many sweets when after the party was over and he was tucked into bed I heard this awful noise coming from his room. I hesitated a second and heard the noise again. I went racing to his room to find that the eyeballs, bats, and ghosts did not get along in his belly. There was throw up in his hair, down his back and all over his front, it was everywhere. I guess that old saying, "if you eat too much candy your gonna be sick" is true.
Despite a yucky end to the night, we had a wonderful party and a very fun Halloween!
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