Sunday, November 2, 2008

Spooktacular!

This Halloween season came with many fun happenings. Here are a few highlights:To start the season off, Jake and a few of his friends had a little Halloween get-together.
Breanna and the girls enjoyed a scrumptiously spooky dinner.After dinner we had a friendly competition (you know me) to see if the girls or the boys could make the best mummy....here's what the girls came up with:And now let's check in with the boys:This wasn't remotely close. But I think the boys definitely had more fun with the mummy aftermath. Can you say TP confetti? Boys and girls are SO different!

I do need to mention how incredible the boys were. When they were done shredding every last square inch of TP, I asked them to clean up and they did it right away! Such good kids!!! And they were good sports too seeing how the girls beat them in the Candy Corn Competition as well. We did keep the boys and girls separated for Haunted Twister, Ghosts in the Graveyard and Stick the Wart on the Witch. I'm sure the boys would have dominated in those games though, right?

Next highlight...Pumpkin Carving!!!

The kids dug right in and gutted the pumpkins.

The kids drew the faces and the dads did the carving.And here's the finished product! You can tell from this picture that the kids weren't hyper at all. Mine were like wild animals. I still feel really bad about that. Now wait a second, where could Luke be? Yep, Luke wanted to be by Ava the whole night. She's so cute!

Time for the class parties. I don't mean to complain, but does anyone else lament the fact that the kids don't get to wear their costumes to school? I always enjoyed that so much when I was a kid! Well, they had a great time anyway! Breanna's class made rice crispy jack-o-lanterns, spooky hands and drank a delicious witches brew. And lucky for me, Jake and Breanna's classes are right across the hall from each other, so I got to go back and forth all afternoon! Jake's and his buddies making masks.
The scary part...this is just the beginning of the sugar today!
And finally the moment we've all been waiting for!

Is she not the cutest witch ever? We sprayed her hair black, but it somehow made it's way to her face, which actually gave us the look we were after!


Look out neighborhood...here we come.





Until next year.....