End-of-October-Fun!!

Now that I am back home and back into blogging... let me take a couple minutes to give y'all an update...

October was a way busy month at our house.

Our annual 'fam & friends' pumpkin carving extravaganza was a hit...as usual, right? We had excellent food & company!

Pumpkin carving is one of my favorite things to do right before halloween. It's fun to see what everyone comes up with for their jack-o-lanterns.

Later on in the week, Tara, the girls and I had a pizza & pumpkin party and Domino's didn't even charge us for the hair that was BAKED INTO OUR PIZZA!!! Yucky!!
Check out our mini pumpkins that grandma & grandpa grew in their garden. They were fun (and hard) to carve. The girls & Tara did faces and I did little stick figures...Tika, me, Carsy and even a little Genevieve!!

And of course, trick-or-treating. We have our usual stops of family and friends and this year Tara, and one of her sisters' & her family came over and we all trick-or-treated around our neighborhood.
This year Tika was a 'death eater' off of Harry Potter and Carsun was a Clown. Genevieve was NOT a bat like she has been for 3 years. (We couldn't find her costume, or she would have been!) This year she was a Candy Corn Witch...so cute, and me? I wore the same thing I have worn since my sophomore year in HS. A T-Shirt that says, 'this is my costume'!

The neighbors came over after trick-or-treating-- they ate candy, watched TV and hung out for a late night. What FUN!!
I made a slide show (above) of some of our October highlighted events!!! :)

It's their party

Over the summer, Tika, Carsun and our neighbors; who are the same age, decided that they would get into the "planning business".
Now when I say "planning business", I mean they think of ANYTHING and plan it. A babysitting business, lemonade stands, yard sales, trips to family dollar, you name it...they probably have it on their list!
We pretty much just let them think of anything and when they bring it up we say, "we'll have to see" (you know, the normal "mom" answer!)
About a month ago, they sat down and spent a good bit of time planning a halloween party. Well, halloween is one of my favorite holidays, so I actually listened to all of their ideas. Jamie and I decided that it might be fun to do since the kids had spent so much time on it and since there was no school on Friday this week.
The moms changed the time, and decided that no costumes would be worn, we planned the food and let the kids figure out the rest.
We invited the neighborhood carpool group and let each of our kids invite 3 of their school friends to attend a night of goul-ish fun!
The girls planned fun games! They played ghost in the graveyard, mummy wrap, the broom game, BOO-ngo and the candy bar game.
They decorated cupcakes ate food & candy like crazy and we sent them home to their parents. (who were probably quite upset their kids were wired for all hours of the night!!)
We ended up having 22 girls and one boy. (he actually didn't mind - I don't even think it phased him...he was 3!)
The girls all had a BLAST -- Jamie & I even got in on the fun, and enjoyed ourselves too!

~~eeek!!!!~~"scary soup"

If you are just joining us, scroll down to the post I did earlier today about "my favorite things about fall". As the girls & I sat down to eat dinner tonight I was saying how much I love to make soup in the fall.

Earlier today I got out a few of our halloween decorations. The girls have been waiting 6 whole days to use our new (well, I bought them last year on clearance after halloween) skeleton hand glasses.

They thought it would be fun to use them for dinner tonight and make red kool-aid so it looked like we were drinking blood. As we slurped our soup, Carsun pulled a noodle out of her bowl and said"Hey, I have an idea, we could make - up a witches brew to have with our blood."

I got a notepad and wrote down their recipe for "Scary Soup"...

SCARY SOUP

Recipe from Tika (11) & Carsy (8)

Chicken --plucked and torn up

Snake's Pee (Chicken Broth)

Ogre Boogers (fresh parsley)

Skin peeled from a human (minced celery & onion)

Fish tongues (carrots)

rat teeth (corn)

Frog eyes (peas)

Black cat intestines (noodles)

wash down your soup with a nice glass of warm bat blood!

So if that doesn't sound appetizing to you, you must not enjoy halloween as much as we do!!!

heh ~ heh ~ heh ~ heh ~ heh