Halloween is one of my favorite holidays as most of you are well aware. I hate anything scary including movies and going to haunted houses but I do love a good ghost story (with the lights on) and I love reading about real haunted places (just not going to them). I love to decorate for Halloween and get costumes and go all out. The little trick or treaters at the door and passing out candy. The yummy themed food and an excuse to have a party. All in good fun!
I started adding little Halloween décor into my house :)
Target glitter spider garland for the win.
I bought $40 worth of candy and filled that bucket and it was gone in 2 hours!
I may or may not have helped in the days before.....
We carved pumpkins like we do every year. I love cooking the pumpkin seeds and crave them every year. Henry loved getting into the goo last year but this year despite all of my efforts he wouldn't touch the pumpkin goo. He just had a blast running around us and trying to steal all of the carving tools. I had my Halloween playlist on and he danced until he about passed out.
Taylor did the scary face and I made the Royals pumpkin for myself and the despicable me/ minion pumpkin for Henry. He did sit in my lap and watch me carve for awhile
The next day I took the little squirt to Taylor's dad, mom and Taylor's offices for their Halloween parties to show off his costume. He had fun seeing them but didn't really understand what was going on.
That afternoon he helped me make the cupcakes for the party.
Our annual Halloween open house started at 5pm and people started showing up and didn't leave until 11:30 which was a blast. We had a great turn out of people popping in and out and staying all night. I served pumpkin spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, yellow cupcakes with vanilla frosting that was colored orange with spider webs on top, rice krispy treats with halloween sprinkles, chili and all the fixin's, chips and guac and salsa, a cream cheese dip, apples with warm caramel and caramel apple sangria. YUM!
As far as costumes, I had to pick a costume that would be good for my pregnant belly and I finally decided on a "mummy-to-be". I even had eyes and one of Eleanor's orange bows on my belly. I made a skirt out of strips of white lace, white ripped up flat sheet and white guaze and then tied all the strips together and wrapped them around my white long sleeve maternity shirt. EASY. I like to dress up with a theme so I had Henry be a skeleton so he could be comfy and warm in black sweats that I just hot glued white felt "bones" on to and then Taylor was Frankenstein. We got him a sport coat from Savers for $7, I painted it to look dirty with brown paint and he wore slacks and a black shirt and boot covers for his cowboy boots to make them look like frankenstein boots. I painted his face and we stuck "bolts" to his neck. It was great!
Our guests had amazing costumes too. We had a baby moose (Sawyer) and his mommy was a PETA enforcement person, his daddy was a hunter and his Auntie was a tree.
My friend Kristen came from work and her son Carson is only 4 days younger than Henry. He was an oompa loompa.
Kristen was the golden ticket and her husband was Willy Wonka. It was amazing.
My sister was something ridiculous of course.
Henry had a blast and got to stay up really late playing with all of his friends. We watched the world series game that we won and ran out of candy by 8pm. I would say it was a great success. Taylor and I showered at midnight and fell into bed exhuasted but it was so much fun! Another epic year in the books. Can't wait to do it again as a family of 4.
