Halloween festivities

After we picked out some little pumpkins at the pumpkin patch, we had to carve them.  The kids helped scoop out the guts.  Weston put his fist in and shook it upside down to try to get the seeds out. 

I hosted a Halloween lunch party for Weston and Savannah and several other moms and little kids.  I made pumpkin scented playdough for the kids to play with, homemade bubbles (which a couple of the kids ingested...), and taped a big piece on paper on the floor for coloring.  Everyone brought festive food.  I only made the mummy dogs and pumpkin sugar cookies.  I think everyone had a fun time, although we were packed in - lots of little bodies in a small space.  

And here are the costumes from this year... I made the cloaks.  Jared and Nathan were rangers from the book "Ranger's Apprentice".  Owen was Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars), Weston was a "baddie" cowboy, and Savannah was Cinderella.  I put a little bit of make-up on Savannah, which she loved - she looked so pretty.  

We had fun at our friends annual Halloween party.  They always do a great job.  This year's theme was "Fear Factor", so I made some disgusting looking maggot cupcakes.  They actually looked much more gross after they had been sitting for a while.  The fondant got wet looking and "slimy".  I couldn't eat any of the leftovers the next day.  

The deli meat head was really cool.  They also had some kind of disgusting looking thing floating in the dry ice drink.

They had several fear factor stations for the kids to pass off.  One of the best ones was the one below where they had to eat different things.  They had real crickets!  I even ate one of them.  Savannah ate one too and seemed to like it.  She actually wanted more of everything.  Most of it was just candy of course.  

Here are some of the other stations they had - sticking your hand in different boxes of gooey things, searching through "poopy diapers" (chocolate), witch hat toss, and an "abominable snowman challenge" (holding your arm in ice water for as long as possible).  Nathan had just done that and was exclaiming, "It's COLD!!"

We had a great time!  The kids had this fear factor party, trunk-or-treat, and traditional trick-or-treating all on Halloween.  "Cinderella" was so worn out after the first party that she fell asleep on the couch.