Halloween 2011 (part 1)

As I mentioned before, Our Halloween Fun started on Friday. That morning I took Baby A t get pumpkins (I waited too late and had to get small ones) and she loved hers. She tried to roll it several times so I think she thought it was a ball. Then she tried so hard to pick it up and get it on the steps. Once she did she clapped at her hard work.

Friday was the school parties so I dressed Baby A in her candy corn dress I made her and we headed to the school. Scooter's class didn't have a party (they said they are too old but I think that is CRAZY!) but I made the witch hat cookies and took them in for a special snack for the class. They all really liked that a lot.

Then I headed to Rascal's class to join all the fun they were having. They had a skittle toss game, a pumpkin making station, a candy pattern station, a mummy station (which I worked at) and a cupcake decorating station. The kids really had fun and I really enjoyed helping out. Of course I forgot to take pictures but thankfully, a mom of Rascal's friend sent me these she took.

Then it was back home to continue decorating for our Family night Fun. Again I didn't get pictures of everything but here are a few that I did get.

I put the pumpkins on the table and decorated them with rubber rats. The boys had no clue I had bought all the fun decorations and loved them all. They came home to a decorated house and thought it was super cool.

 I saw this idea on pintrest on how to make witch's curtains so I did it for the doorways. Mine didn't turn out as well but they were still cute hanging from the doorways (again I got no pictures of mine). 

I saw a few banner ideas on pintrest (here and here) and put them together to come up with this one:

I got the witch legs hanging out of the fireplace from this picture on pintrest and changed it up some.

The boys really liked that and talked about it for a good long while.

Then we painted the too small to carve pumpkins. W might could have carved them but it would have been hard and since they were cool with painting them, I happily gave in. No yucky pumpkins to gut !

Scooter painted an angry bird on his pumpkin:

Rascal painted a funny face and wanted everyone to know that the red you see on his is blood! Nice huh?!?!

I painted Baby A's since we didn't have washable paint. Pardon my horribly uncentered iPhone picture.

Me and the boys also decorated cupcakes but I forgot to take a picture of them. Here is my inspiration picture:

Ours weren't quite this neat but they were still really yummy!

We had pizza for dinner, served with grape kool-aid that had spiders floating in the punch bowl (again no picture sorry). 

After it got dark, Tim took the boys out for a spooky walk around the yard. Now let me tell you, I wouldn't even dream of doing this myself, that is why Baby A and I stayed indoors where it was warm and very well lit!  Our property is a good size, with lots of trees and we have tons of woods around our neighborhood. All that equals up to wildlife and some of that wildlife I never want to run into. 

After walking around the yard some, Tim and the boys took some of the cupcakes over to The Homes' across the street. Tim said on the way back home, they heard a coyote howl in the distance and the boys took off towards our house. That was it no more scary late night walk for them. Tim and I had a good laugh at the two scaredy cats. 

We had a lot of fun and it was a great way to kick off our fun filled weekend. 

I will post about trunk or treat in another post. I don't think I should put that many more pictures in this post :)