Halloween

I didn't take pictures on Halloween night because we had so many from the neighborhood party and from school.  The kids had been a bit nervous about how they were going to meet up with all their friends this year.  Our neighborhood Halloween party has always been on Halloween.  This has made it so easy because the kids can play and then all meet up to go trick-or-treating together.  We haven't had to worry about dinner that night or who they would go with, because everyone was together and we had a pot luck.  So this year I had to think of what to make and what to do.

We decided to invite all the friends and their families over for hot chocolate and donuts before going out to trick-or-treat.  That way all the friends would be together and they could just leave from our house to go collect candy.

So at 6:30 p.m. we had the water hot and everyone brought their favorite topping and we had a great time.  We had 7 kids here with some of their families and ate donuts and laughed.  It was a great time.

When they were finished and it was getting darker outside, Bryan took all 7 kids around trick-or-treating while I stayed and answered the door.  They had so much fun and got so much candy!!

By the time they got home, Ethan was sweaty from running and Courtney was exhausted.  But Bryan said they did a great job.  If there was a dog at the house, Ethan would collect a candy for Courtney (who was far from the house) and if one of the kids was too slow, they would collect his candy for him too.  And if Courtney was too slow, Ethan would remind them all to slow down.  Bryan was on his bike so he could keep up.

It was crazy busy with kids that night but I think they all had fun.

After they had chosen 10 pieces of candy and eaten their one piece for the night, they put the rest out for the Halloween Fairy to take and leave a toy.  And then they went to bed.

Thursday morning Ethan was thrilled to have a bag full of army guys and Courtney had a manicure set!  They decided to put the rest of their candy out Thursday night to see if the Halloween Fairy would come again but she didn't. 

Courtney's Halloween Party

I am the room mom for Courtney's class and so I got to plan her party.  We did it really simple, which is what I like, so it wasn't a huge stress.  In fact, I kept thinking that I had forgotten something because I wasn't stressed about it at all.

Anyway, I bought a craft from Oriental Trading that included everything in little packets.  So each student had a packet with stuff in it to make a spider web and 2 spiders.  We had moms there to help and the kids had a great time putting their spiders together.

We then read a book while the craft was drying.

After the book was finished, the kids decorated cookies and then ate them.  It took about 1 hour and was perfect because the kids had a great time and it wasn't a mess or hectic.  I had been busy all week making cookies for different classes (because I have a cake business I can take homemade things into the school) so I was happy to have a low key class party.

Here's Courtney's class making silly faces:

Here's her class with all their costumes.  They were pretty cute!

 Here is Courtney decorating her cookie:

 This is her "My mom is weird. Why does she keep taking pictures" face.

 After the party, I grabbed their costumes from them so they wouldn't have to worry about them after school.  The kids didn't mind because they weren't wearing them anyway.

Halloween Parade

This is Ethan's last year for the Halloween Parade.  I don't think he is going to miss it because it isn't his favorite thing but he does like showing off his costume.  The parade wasn't until the afternoon so they weren't allowed to wear their costumes to school.  I had to run the costumes up to them at lunch time when they were allowed to change.  Now, these aren't the most comfortable costumes.  The boxes are so large that they couldn't sit down in them and the heads were big and bulky.  But they had fun wearing them in the parade.  They had a lot of "that's cool" comments so they thought they were all that.

Here is Ethan:

 Here is Courtney:

 After the parade, they went outside and danced on the basketball court while the room moms got the parties ready.

Neighborhood Halloween Party

Our usual Halloween Party for the neighborhood was on Monday this year (I don't know why) and so I had to husstle to get their costumes finished.  But I finished spray painting and glueing that afternoon.  I think they turned out okay.  The kids were super excited about them.  I could have done better and will know for next time, but I think they were cute.

 Courtney loved hers because she was just like her big brother.

 I needed to get Ethan some new sweats because they were a bit short but his costume turned out cute too!

 They are making silly faces but you can't tell. ;)

We went down to the Halloween Party at about 5:30 p.m.  We were a bit late but we waited for Bryan and the kids didn't want to be there too early.  Ethan's best friend, Brennon, was sick so Ethan didn't have too much fun and didn't stay too long at the party.  But Courtney had some fun. 

Usually we just have a bounce house but this year they also had games for the kids to play.  Courtney played a few and won some candy.  Ethan had another friend from the neighborhood who won a gold fish but he didn't have a fish tank.  So he brought it over for Ethan to have since Ethan's fish died a few months ago.  It lasted 3 days before it died and now it's gone the way of all dead fishes...down the toilet.  Oh well.  It wasn't around long enough to get attached to.

Pizazz Halloween Party

Courtney's dance team had a Halloween Party at their last practice in October.  She was pretty excited about it but didn't want to wear her "real costume" to it because she wanted the freedom to dance around.  Smart girl!  So she grabbed her vampire costume from last year, we painted her face and she was off.  She's looking pretty scary if you ask me!

October Cakes

Here are some cakes I made during October.  The first is a softball cake I made for a friend of a friend who plays softball in the Huntsman Sr. World Games.  It turned out cute!

This is the cake I made for our neighborhood Halloween Party.  I really need to put signs on these cakes that say: "THIS IS A CAKE" because people always think it's a candy bowl and eat the candy toppings!  UGH!  But it was a hit at the party.

The Logo

Here is the new logo for the law firm.  I think it looks pretty good!

They have new business cards, shirts and pens now with the new logo.  Pretty snazzy!