All Hallow’s Eve & Our New Tradition

We love Halloween. We love dressing up and getting candy from strangers. Then we love coming home where Mom takes half of the candy and puts it away to sell to the dentist. Sorry kids, your Mom’s no fun. Anyway, this year we had Tigger (actually just a tiger, but don’t tell him that. I bought the costume last year at Old Navy for $4.50 and convinced him that he didn’t actually want to be Spiderman, he wanted to be Tigger. Again, mother of the year is mine!), a butterfly princess (yes, she was hurt when people guessed fairy princess, fairy, princess or butterfly), and Princess Celestia from My Little Ponies. (There again, no one knew who she was…) Regardless of the costume mishaps, the kids had a great time! I’m a little bummed you can’t see Kaylee’s tail. It was awesome. Pink and blue feather boas. I’m still vacuuming up feathers.

Our new tradition (I have just decreed) was awesome. I had lots of fun, even though it was some work for me. Last year, we were invited to friend’s before trick or treating for a special dinner. We had so much fun we decided to do our own this year. (Also, our friends moved so we had to do it ourselves!) And it was so great this year that I’d like to make it an annual thing. We did it a week or so before Halloween to ease my burden, which was nice. Anyway, we made menus for everyone, and they had to select their drink, side dish, main dish and dessert, all of which had code names. No one was allowed in the kitchen. It was great. I can’t remember all of the code names but I’ll do my best. Here’s what we served: DRINKS; poison, witches brew, mummy juice (aka. green kool-aid, root beer with dry ice, capri suns wrapped like mummies), SIDE DISH; compost, goblin fingers, oozing brains (salad, green beans, green jello), MAIN DISH: scorched jack o’ lantern, blood and guts, and I can’t remember the other thing (english muffin pizzas –cheddar cheese, pepperoni cut to make faces-, spaghetti with meat sauce), DESSERT; troll fingers, melted witch goo, dried bones (sugar cookie fingers with red frosting on the ends, cup of green pudding with witch hat cookie on top, chex mix). That was the best run on sentence EVER. Anyway, it was super awesome fun. And it WILL  happen again. Unfortunately, making that kind of dinner come together for 10 kids and 6 adults (I know, we kept it small this year ;) ), I didn’t get any pics of the food. Which is why I wrote it all down. Somehow I’ve got to remember! We did get some pictures as we were setting up. The kitchen was completely closed off but you get the idea from these shots.