Happy Halloween!!!

Last night we had a bunch of friends and their children over for our first ever Halloween Party.  Everyone was to come dressed up, and everyone did!  That made it so much more fun, I think!   So I’m seriously looking like I’m about to fall asleep, but you can see my DI find for my dress better in this picture.    Dillon wore his Ghillie Suit he wears hunting, and I was a hippie.    Sabra and Damon (with Jonas) dressed as Maeby and George Michael from Arrested Development.  Sabra MADE the muscle outfits.  Damon’s legs are even covered with the suit.  SO FUNNY.  I’ve not seen the show they are talking about, but it sounds funny.   Andrea and McKay dressed as Ali Mills and Daniel LaRusso from Karate Kid.   Kate and Matt dressed as a gypsy lady and a mad scientist.    Dustin and Camilla dressed as a robot and fairy.  Dustin’s robot head was awesome.  There was some app he downloaded on his i-phone that made the mouth move—even right on with how he was talking.    Kim and Sam as the devil and angel. Sandi and Paul dressed as Gumby and just a trashy looking dude. Marrya was not alone but Clark didn’t ever get in the picture with her, so here she is as a black widow.       The best part of the last couple days is how involved my kids were in the whole party planning.  While the boys were at school, Bailey and I made some of these popcorn balls for party favors.  There were a total of 25 children and 16 adults.  I saw these Jell-O popcorn balls last year on Pleasant Home right here.     While I wrapped them all up (after Devon was out of school), Bailey and Devon hung out on the table with me.              The boys and I decided that we wanted to turn their room into a Haunted House.  This was tricky, since we have a very small space to work with.  We kept things simple and chose just a couple main things that we wanted in there.  First, we used this awesome folding thingy that my Dad gave us a few months ago to help things flow around the room rather than just go into their room and have no direction.      After walking past the webs you see above, the gummy rats were in the pathway to scare you.    I bought a phantom at Walmart for only $10.00 and hung it on their dresser.  It really did add a lot because of the spooky sounds it made.  It shakes and the eyes glow red.    We had to get an orange light! This coffin was not my idea.  My sister and her family threw a fabulous Halloween party and she had seen an idea online to make a coffin and have the “body parts” inside it to feel.    I just draped some cheesecloth over it to make it more spooky looking.   My sister had spray painted some boxes, and they were smart to use both sides of the box.  Since mine would be sitting on my kids’ bunk bed, I could only use the one side, but as long as I used small bowls it still worked.  After spraying the boxes black with Krylon (the cheap stuff just doesn’t coat well), I let it dry and cut holes with a serrated knife.  Then I taped a square of felt above each hole.  Make sure your bowls of body parts are far enough back that the felt or napkins or whatever you use don’t get stuck on the bowls so they can see what they are feeling. Most of these were the same as what my sister used in the coffin at her party.  Here is what they all are: Cauliflower:  Brain (I didn’t even bother steaming it—it was still disgusting) Popcorn Kernels and Candy Corn:  Teeth—including the vampire teeth that are the candy corn Peeled Tomato:  Heart Cooked pasta:  Guts Dried assorted pasta:  Bones Carrots:  Toes The BEST part is that they hid under their bunk beds and scared people right as they were feeling the toes.  It was so much fun to practice what they would do the next day! Here’s a couple action shots:               It was potluck so everyone just brought a cooked pizza.  I bought some dry ice and poured in some fruit punch.  By the end of the night it was delicious because the ice turned it all into a slushy.  Yum! The tablecloth. And some deviled egg eyes.   Some of my friends brought some stuff to do the fishing game where they throw over the string with the clothespin and they throw back a prize or candy.               And sorry, no pics but Marrya let them make a paper bat puppet as well.  Then the kids watched How to Train Your Dragon while the adults tried to play a quick game of Apples to Apples.  AND, I wish I hadn’t have been lazy to try and get the kids all together, but seriously, 25 kids??? They all looked so cute and really had a great time together.  I did get a video of Carson taking me through the Haunted House while Devon hid under the bed, but I’ve tried over and over and over all day to upload it and it won’t.  I should have also had Devon take a turn and Carson hide, but he was super cute taking people through as well:). Thanks for coming everyone!!!