Halloween Party

As our kids get older, our Halloweens are getting weird-er and weird-er...or at least different than they used to be. This year all kids, but Rylee, went trick-or-treating with friends while Jason and I supervised a teen party at our house.

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The plan was to play "Just Dance 4", make s'mores (using my new fire pit), hang out, eat snacks, be goofy/ flirty (boys were invited) and play games. Everyone came in costume and a spontaneous round of trick-or-treating in the neighborhood happened too.

Sorting and swapping candy.

I was excited for Rylee's first official girl/boy party. I kept asking the group if they wanted Rylee's dad to start the fire, so they could do s'mores. I kept getting, "later" or "not right now". When the teens went on their spontaneous trick-or-treating round, I had Jason get it started anyway.

Maybe it's not cool to do s'mores??? They kinda hung out by the fire a little, but I don't think anyone made a s'more!

When most of the teens were outside, Rylee came in to Jason and I and said, "Do you guys HAVE TO be in here? Couldn't you just go in your room? My friends are like 'Why is your mom watching us?...It's probably because there are BOYS here'."

What?! I didn't realize I was such a bother. Jason and I went to our room and tried not to be offended. :)

The kicker was that we had brought the t.v. out to the front room for them to play on and my computer was down, so I didn't have any of my usual entertainment. Jason played a game on his phone and I played Solitaire.

Happy Halloween???

Halloween Party

A lady my mom works with, has a Halloween Party for her neighborhood kids each year. She asked my mom if she would like to bring her grandchildren to the party.

My mom said, "How many? I have 14."

"Oh, maybe just a few of them then."

When other grandkids were busy, out-of-town or still too young to come, my kids got lucky enough to get on the invite list.

Treyson decided he wanted to be a clown, when he found a costume and wig, in my stash.

He wore Jason's Converse shoes to achieve that floppy, big shoe look.

Abree found this costume in the stash. Taylee raved about HOW CUTE! she was, so Abree decided she wanted to be a ladybug.

Taylee had decided she wanted to be Pippi Longstockings this year. We had waited to the last minute, only having striped tights, to come up with her costume. We felt we had found a treasure, when Rylee discovered an actual wire hanger in the closet (those are rare and hard to come by in our house). Taylee gathered mis-matched pieces of clothing and I began bending and cutting the hanger to go in her braids. Another awesome find was when we discovered the orange hairspray in my stash. Only thing missing was Mr. Nilsen, the monkey. He was hiding out today, but maybe he'll make it for Halloween.


Isn't she just the cutest Pippi.... or maybe Wendy, from Wendys?!

Quite the trio.

Who wants to bet, Treyson comes back with his clown make-up looking like the Joker, from Batman?