Party for the boo-tiful people

Yesterday was our 2nd annual Halloween party. Though we had to change it up from last year, the kids still had a great time running around in their costumes. I was pleased that most of the adults paid heed to my instructions that they were to come in costume as well. It's just way more fun that way, right?

The Jaques family had their costumes totally themed up! It was so cute. Shelby was little tinkerbell, with Breanna as Wendy. Apparently Joe made the better Captain Hook because Amy was dressed as Peter Pan. {And a sassy one she was!}
The Andersons were able to make it after all and were so excited to have them come over to play. Holly gets into the costume part of Halloween just as much as I do, though I will say she gets out her sewing machine to get her costumes ready. Me.....I click on amazon.com. Same thing right? :0) She and Zack came dressed as Fred and Daphne from the Scooby Doo gang. They rocked it! Ellie was a ballerina, and apparently Abby didn't want to be Word Girl again after wearing it at her birthday party, so she came as a purple fairy. :0) She was beautiful. Of course, sweet sophie...she always comes cute. :0)

The Arringtons really got into their costumes as well. YAY! They brough me a blueberry and a cow! Emily had gotten her sew ON with this blue costume as well. It turned out so cute and actually won the aware for the Most Original Costume. Emily came as white trash, and Bryan was just a giant spiderweb. I don't like spiders. I must not have given him that memo. :0)
You know...the one thing about these parties is you see how many of your friends try to show you up with their made sewing skills. Reagan and Elise were both dressed to the nines in the fancy costumes that their mother MADE for them . Reagan was a Knight with a helmet and shield {FYI....do not call it a hat. Because that would be totally wrong......yeah.....}and Elise's costume was of Glinda the Good Witch complete with towering hat. Again....ALL was sewn by miss seamstress girl person. I think I might have to stop inviting some of these people over. :0)

The Thompson brothers came dressed as Spiderman and Black Spiderman. Sadly, I was not able to grab a shot of little sister Kennedy before they left. It appears as though she was the naughty arachnoid that got her brothers into this spiderman mess. Sigh... :0( Poor Matt and Fonda....these boys will really be climbing the walls now. :0)

After much debate with my daughter over what she would wear, she finally agreed that she would wear the costume we actually bought for her to wear. Crazy! Sigh. Toddler girls. They are a bit much.

Now, for my Landon....I don't think I saw him the entire afternoon as he was down in the hole playing the Wii with the other older boys. When it came time to take his picture as well as his friend Hatim, they had both taken off the costumes. :0( So, no individual shots of them. It would have been awesome because Landon is dressed as a Clone Trooper and Hatim is Darth Vader. That's some good stuff there. :0)

This is us at the end of the night. My Clone Trooper there to guard me against the policeman who things I'm just a pirate hussy. My Abby Cadabby girl could probably take the cop down on her own though. She's tough. She could at least turn him into a pumpkin. :0)

I missed a few pictures too, so I may steal off blog posts from others to add to my collection. I never got one of The ghostly Tatem, or sassy Mollie.

Anyway....thanks to everyone who came. I hope you had an ok time. I wish we would have resorted back to carving pumpkins. But, that's ok. We'll just move on to the next adventure. You all ready for trick or treating? We've got trunk or treating on Friday and are super pumped!

Halooween fun

Landon has been so funny about Halloween this year. First he wanted to put out the decorations in September. Then he wanted to start wearing his costume WAY TOO early. And then he wanted to have a party. So, we decided to invite some friends from the 7th ward over to have a pumpkin carving/costume party. We wanted to invite several others, but our house just isn't big enough. Hopefully next year our basement will be finished so we can really live it up! ;0)

Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate with us, and we were forced to move the carving into my dungeon of a basement. But, it worked out ok.

And I was so pleased that everyone (almost everyone anyway....)came in costume. It's always harder to get the adults to dress up. For me...it's just good clean fun! Had I thought about it way in advance I might have coordinated all of our costumes to match. Maybe next year....but all the kids were so cute!

There was a costume contest for the kids, and a pumpkin contest as well. All the kids got to go home with oodles of candy though I'm sure they were already sugared up. ;0)

Thanks to everyone for coming! Hopefully it will be bigger and better next year! Start planning your costumes! ;0)