Halloween Parties!

This weekend was so BOO-tiful!  We were so busy.  Yesterday we had our friends, Scotty and Levi's annual Halloween party!  We love going to thier Halloween parties!  This year the theme was Great Pumpkin.  How cute is this setup?

 

My friend Jessica is a pretty big Charlie Brown fan so there were little Peanuts touches everywhere.  

 

Each kid got a little goodie bag including a bag that says "I got a rock."  My favorite line ever from the Halloween Charlie Brown.

 

We had the famous "Halloween pizza" for lunch and Jessica also made some yummy S'mores cupcakes.

 

Presley went as Hawkeye, Evie as Dorothy, and today Gracie was Wolverine.  So far for various other Halloween events, she has been Jasmine and Tiana.  We'll see what she actually will be for the big day.

 

Miss Shelby was looking awesome in her 50's poodle skirt.

 

We did some fun reading of Hallween stories.  Evie and Jackson  were into it.

 

And soon more joined in.

 

Jackson couldn't help himself by counting along with the Halloween story.  That's probably why Evie was looking at him that way.

 

Anne does such a great job narrating the stories. All the kiddies were loving it.

 

Evie was so excited to show Presley a Halloween book that we have at home.  We have read "Where is Baby's Pumpkin?" at least 25 times this year.

 

After some stories, it was time for crafts.  Everyone got to make and decorate a mask.

 

Gracie of course knew what she was doing so she used up all the big spider stickers first.

 

But Presley thought he looked pretty spooky even if he only used polka dots.

 

Same with Evie.  But they had fun making them.

 

I got my little monsters to pose for a quick pic with thier masks.

 

And speaking of posing for pics, I had to get Levi in his costume.  Can you guess what he is?

 

Levi Knievel!  Jessica even made his outfit.

 

Here are all the kiddies from the party in thier costumes.

If you can't tell, my friend Jessica is also the photographer.  Look at how cute her new pics are of Scott and Levi.  She does such a great job. We just did the 3 year photo shoot with the twins outside. I hope they turn out this cute too.

 

Presley slowed down just for a second enough to snuggle with me for a quick pic.

 

The kids couldn't wait to dive into the cupcakes. They were chocolate with a marshmellowy center with a little S'more on top.

Jackson thought they were so delicious, it was scary!  ha!

 

I think this was Evie's first time eating a S'more.

 

Gracie has had some though and she of course loved it.  She got to eat it because she did eat a whole piece of pizza. And if you know Gracie, that is a huge.  It was only the cheese, no crust. But still, huge.

 

Evie and Jackson also had fun on the see-saw.  You could be looking at the future Mr. and Mrs. Ogle.

And quite possibly, the future Mr. and Mrs. Dunn.  

 

After the Halloween party, we headed home because our street was having a fall block party!  The summer one was such a huge success that we had planned to have another one. It was a fun party.  Depsite the chilliness, the kids wore thier costumes, had a coloring contest and bobbed for apples.  They had a bouncy house and a photo booth. Tents were set up, music was going, and Chuck was manning the grill.  We also had these hanging up in the kids bedroom window.  They've been up for awhile but when you turn the light on and look outside at night, it looks pretty cool.

 

The kids and I hit the photo booth and that is our new favorite thing.  It was free so we took tons of pics. Here we are showing off our scary, silly, and mad faces.

 

There was a brief moment too where we had the bouncy house all to ourselves!  

We were having fun until I told someone that she had to keep her hat on because it was cold.  She was not too happy.

 

We closed off our court and the kids got to play in the street. Bub had fun.  We played baseball, soccer, football, and basketball.

 

Gracie colored a Halloween picture for the coloring contest.  She didn't win but we did win a $20 gift card to the pizza place from our raffle tickets.

 

I bought this yummy pumpkin cookie cake and Jewel.  I have not had a piece though.  Jillian will not be happy.

 

But I did have one of these.  Yum!  

 

And we hit the photo booth a few more times before the night was over.

 

The kids enjoyed running around in the cold and eating lots of candy including ring pops.

 

There were a few different fires going in fire pits so Gracie and I went to make S'mores.  The real things.  I can't wait to do this in Girl Scouts.

 

It was getting cold but the kids didn't want to go in. So Chuck let them hang in his car and listen to "Cowboy" and some Elvis.  They thought that was pretty cool.  I snapped this picture and then realized Chuck is holding his beer.  How classy do we look?  The car was not on and we were not driving it so please don't call DCFS!  

What a great weekend!  We are pooped!