2nd Annual Halloween Party

I'm finally getting to the party pics! (kicking self) And I forgot to take a picture of the whole spread!  And (worst of all) I forgot to take a picture of all the kids together!  We had 18 kids, and some adults, in costume!

 My Little Pumpkin with Aunt Jana

 My flamingo & skeleton with Grana & MawMaw

 My Abe Lincoln with a Rangers Fan as Batman passes by.

 Babe Magnet and Country Bumpkin

 Lots of kids running around!

We did a treasure hunt for pumpkins and played Donuts on a String, which was hilarious!  The kids had to eat a donut, but couldn't touch it.

 As it started to get dark, Grandpa drove us on a hay(less) ride.  I gave them their goodie bags with glow sticks.  I was afraid it would be a boring ride, but we ended up with about 16 howling coyotes riding along with us!  And they appeared to be having a ball!

Some of them hung out for a while afterward with the kids playing hide & seek in the dark.  You know it's a good party when every one's not rushing to leave!  : )  I'm already looking forward to next year!

The Flamingo

 We found this goofy flamingo hat at Dollar Tree last summer.  Right then & there, Elizabeth wanted to be a flamingo for Halloween.   I figured she could dress in pink with the hat & call it done.

Then I saw the bird wings tutorial on Prudent Baby... and I got ambitious. 

 Standing on one foot.

Yes, that was a time consuming project, but I have to admit... I love them... perhaps as much as she does.  And there had better be years of play left on those wings after Halloween!  : )

More Halloween

 Last week we made more Halloween decorations!  Some of the supplies came from Aunt Sissy's Box of Fun.

The kids enjoyed reading I'm the Scariest Thing in the Castle by Kevin Sherry,  so we made bats like the one in the book.  This is a great book to read with little ones.  It's not really scary at all... it's cute!

I did this a few weeks ago with my homeschool art classes- we made the giant squid from Kevin Sherry's book, I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean!  All the kids have enjoyed this project.  Idea from Deep Space Sparkle.

Next we used pipe cleaners & eyeballs to make spiders!

I looked at the cute press on nails that are out for Halloween & didn't want to spend the money, or they were in kids sizes.  So I decided just to do crazy nails with a monster eye.  Unfortunately, I lost half of my polish while trying to remove green Sharpie scribbles from my painted white kitchen cabinets.  I'll redo them this week, though.

Skeletons are not scary at our house.  After all, everyone has one!  We have a couple of skeletons that I picked up at Halloween time for homeschool purposes.  : )  Gotta learn how the body works, you know!  The kids really enjoyed making these Q-tip skeletons!  Idea from Boredom Busting Mommy.

Rebekah's skeleton is in purple.  Hers looks a little like it was in an accident!

Halloween 2010

There's Rebekah's mummy pose a few days before Halloween:

And there's Rebekah stealing the apples out of my pretty fall centerpiece:

Now on to today!  I wasn't really planning on going, but Elizabeth got excited when she heard she could dress up and go to church tonight, so we went.

 Elizabeth as a Princess Butterfly

(same dress she wore last year!)

 Rebekah as a Ladybug

 The "Together" Shot

also featuring David without his astronaut costume

 Fly away little ladybug!

 She was sooo adorable!  

She enjoyed wearing the ladybug costume 

so much more than when Elizabeth was one.

The hood squished her little cheeks so that

she looked like an Ewok!

The kids had lots of fun playing games and getting candy at the church festival.  I had my hands full, especially when Rebekah got too hot in her ladybug jacket, Elizabeth gave me her pumpkin, I had my camera and water.  Thankfully Lauren offered to help with Rebekah!  Thank you, Lauren!!!

 Elizabeth digging for treasure

Playing something like musical chairs

Honest Abe (aka Grandpa) was there

 EB & Rebekah digging/playing in the sand, 

and the top of David's head in the other sandbox.

This is my kids' favorite stop every year!

 Her antenna got a little askew on the slide!
David was busy eating popcorn and drinking sprite at this point.

 Hot & tired Rebekah with her tattoo

 Elizabeth told the teenager who was painting faces 

that she wanted her whole face to be painted like a butterfly.
She might have overwhelmed the girl.

David opted for the tattoo.

Grana spins the wheel of fortune!

 I caught Lauren force feeding chocolate to Rebekah...

HA!!!

The kids got more candy this year than they did last year.  Perhaps they're finally getting the hang of this.  Rebekah & Lauren got a box of cupcakes at the cake walk.  Elizabeth got some toys in addition to her candy.  And David pretty much stuck to the candy.  All the way home, they were talking about what they got in their pumpkins and then, giggling, would add, "I got a rock," just like Charlie Brown.

You may have to click to enlarge this one - obviously, after it was all over, we had to have bath time!  Rebekah had cupcake & frosting all over her body and hair!  And Elizabeth went to bed with a still stained pink & purple face!  But it was fun!