I don't know what that face is...
The actual night of Halloween! We had a lot of fun, and I may have gotten more of a sugar fix then my own kids!
We started with a dinner with our friends and family, which was so creative and fun, thanks Ben and Jordan! Afterward we went out trick-or-treating in a great neighborhood that was really into Halloween and giving out good candy! I forgot my camera, so I didn't get any pictures, but it was pretty short lived anyway. Jayda lasted about one street, and decided she was finished, I don't think she quite grasped the concept of the delayed gratification of trick-or-treating! We stopped in for some good company with a family in the neighborhood and then headed home to get the kids in bed! Glenn and I then turned into five year old crazy candy mongers and binged on sweets until we ached, good times.
Now that Halloween is over, I'm ready for the Holidays!! Time to start baking!
As a side story, you'll notice that Skyler does not have his costume on. That's because the minute we put it on, he acted as though his skin was covered in boils and tore the costume off as quick as possible. He really hates it! So I put him in red sweats and called him a basketball player. Lol, you can't win them all!
A bunch of the girls here in the area have a girl's night once a month that everyone takes a turn hosting. This month Stefanie Cross and I hosted at my place, which was fun with the Halloween theme and everything. We kept it pretty simple, with costumes and mingling. Later in the evening we had a mummy wrap and took some pictures.
Me being completely oblivious to all things sports related, had no clue that the Phillies were playing in the World Series that night (I know, for shame!), but we knew they won because we could hear people hollering outside of our apartment later that night! Victory for Philly!
You can't see Lizzette's sign is this picture, but it says "nudist on strike." I thought it was hilarious!
This was the one occasion that I had the energy to dress up. It was pretty fun though.
Natalie and Caralee were great sports to be the mummies!
I had this taken a little too late, and it's missing about half of the girls that came. Sorry guys! I really love family traditions, and my family has quite a few of them, especially around the holidays. During Halloween, my family has always done a fun party, including lots of food, carving pumpkins, decorating cookies, and enjoying each other's company. I've been a little sad knowing that we're going to be missing out on that for a while, but that didn't mean we couldn't have some fun on our own!
So I planned our own little Green Halloween Party. It turned out to be so much fun. Obviously, with our kids being young, we kept it pretty simple, but now we have our own tradition to keep up year to year!
We started with our "Dinner in a Pumpkin," something my mom made us every year. It's basically a hamburger and rice casserole cooked in a pumpkin, but it's really good and the kids think it's so cool.
We didn't carve pumpkins this time, we decided to just decorate the pumpkins we got on our trip to Freddy Hills. This was probably my favorite part of the night. I forgot to take pictures of our finished pumpkins, but I was amazed at how creative Jayda was with her pumpkin. She glued on the tiniest, most microscopic eyes, with a puffball unibrow inbetween them. We got a good laugh, I'll get pics of the pumpkins up later.
