Ward Halloween Party

Last night our ward had its annual Halloween party.  It was GREAT!  They had tons of chili and cornbread, hot dogs, and homemade rootbeer.  YUM  There were lots of games for the kids and they had a blast.  They earned tickets at the games, and then used the tickets to buy prizes or treats.
I wasn't going to have the kids dress up, but at the last minute they all wanted to.  Of course.  :)  So we put together what we could.  Teeny Bopper and Tailgunner went as a couple:

Sweet G was a biker girl with her daddy.  (no pictures of them, we were in a huge hurry!)
Blondie and her friend next door went as black and white opposites.  Friend S had black pants and white shirt, Blondie had white pants and black shirt.  Again, no pics.
Little Miss was a dead-goth-princess, or something like that.

And last but not least, Dr. D was an indian:

AND-the great part is, three of our kids won awards for their costumes!!  Teeny Bopper won funniest costume in her age bracket.  Dr. D won Most Creative costume award for his age, and Tailgunner won Cutest Costume for his age.  Sweet!! Hurray for last minute dressing up.  :)

Halloween-ified

I removed most of the Fall stuff from the house to make room for the Halloween stuff.  I didn't think I was all that jazzed about doing this, but as soon as it all came out, it was so fun!
Here is my style of Halloween decor:

And here is DH's style:

Halloween

I am way behind on my blog posting because we got a virus on our old computer that we just couldn't fix.  So, luckily we had this other computer sitting around that is a bit of an upgrade for us (thank you, Naunee!) and just got around to hooking it up.  Then I couldn't find the camera download cord, you know how that goes.
I have tons of Halloween pictures to share, so beware, this post contains mucho pictures!!  :)

First, we have our little Clown and Cowgirl:

A special visitor from Kansas; Dorothy-

Little Goth Girl, (I wonder where she gets this?)  and her big sister:

And just in case we need some last minute insurance, we have our good friend, Flo:

 Just for fun, we'll throw in a hairy little baby:

For our Halloween dinner, we had "Monster Mash" (an idea I took from a cousin's blog-so cute!) and brain jello.  We also had some "Cemetery Lawn" (salad) to go with it. 

 Super fun!  The kids loved it all.
 
For the monster mash:  you have to make the meatloaf to take up the whole pan, like this, and then put the mashed potatoes on top after it's cooked.  The fingernails are onion pieces.  I put some BBQ sauce on the "hand" part for extra yumminess, and it looked cool, too.

Some pictures of our Jack-o-lanterns:

Teeny Bopper did a little pumpkin family instead of carving a big one. 

I think that does it for Halloween pictures!!  Until next year...

Spooky Supper costumes

Well, I slacked on taking pictures of the food this year, but our annual Spooky Supper was fantastic!!  (as usual)

There was great food, fun games, and wonderful company to be had.  This is the only food picture I took:

Waxy Q Tips.  (marshmallows with peanut butter on sucker sticks.)  I also took Loaded Diaper Dip, but didn't snap a photo of that one.  (it's my old stand by anyway, probably a picture on this blog somewhere already)
Here are the kids in their costumes:
Bat Girl-

Witch-

"Dead Bob"-

Pumpkin-

I got some yellow felt and made the Bat Girl costume out of black clothes we already had.  We got the mask at JoAnn's, 50% off, and I made the cape out of some black fabric I already had.  The witch we already had everything for, and we found the skeleton and pumpkin costumes at Goodwill on half-off day!!  Score!  We probably spent 10 bucks for everyone's costumes.  Oh, make that 15 bucks because I did buy an orange shirt and brown tights to go under the pumpkin costume.  I'm still ok with that.  :)

Spooky Supper

We were invited to one of my best friend's house (well, her mom's) for their annual Spooky Supper. We have been very kindly adopted in by her family and go every year that we possibly can make it. It is such a fun tradition! We get together in costume and bring a potluck item that either looks gross in some way, has been renamed a spooky or disgusting name, or both (preferably). This year we had bloody fingers (bbq smokies), loose stool (bean soup), bones and fungus with mucous on the side (carrot sticks and broccoli with ranch), witches fingers and eyeballs (carrots with almond fingernails and radish & green olive "eyes"), bat wings (blue potato chips), worms in a cocoon (hot dog and taco meat in a tortilla), and kitty litter for dessert (a crumbly cake served in a pan with an actual kitty litter scooper for the serving tool. Oh-and melted stretched out tootsie rolls on top). It is GREAT fun!!! The kids love it.
Then my friend's mom planned out games for us. We did a scavenger hunt along with a couple other games and the annual favorite-epitaph writing. We each draw a name and have to write a short headstone for that person. Then we go around the room and read them all. She also made goodie bags for the kids that were junk free! It was awesome! It's so great to be adoptees into such a fun group of people. We love it! (and them)