Costume Party 2019

This year, the annual costume party was at my brother's house. I had gathered several things that I thought would work for the costumes we were planning. The week before the costume party, there was a craft sale that I wanted to make some things for, so that took me away from working on the costumes, then the beginning of this week, our church had special meetings Sunday through Thursday. So Thursday night, we went through what we had and what would work. Sarah, Andy, and I all had something from those things that would work and Will had dyed his costume from last year to repurpose it into a different thing. Friday, I set to work making capes out of blankets and Emily's costume. It ended up too big. I could fit it and the neck was too big for me even. That left only one choice, make a new outfit for Emi. Then I thought it wouldn't take much to finish and fix the first one for me. And if I was going to do that, I should make one for Sarah so we'd all be the same. I set to work doing the gauntlets and quivers that were needed. I ended up getting to sleep at 1 in the morning! This morning, I had to alter the necklines of both of the girls' costumes, plus sew the tail back on Will's plus several other things. We didn't get the "ears" made that we were planning, but still looked good.

What I had done by 1 in the morning

My family (minus my husband)

my elves

My brother's family (minus one son and my sister-in-law)

my sister's family (minus 1 son)

My brother's dog was a crocodile

My nieces were trying to pull Dan off the couch

Random leaf that got tracked in. I thought it looked cool

Halloween Costume Party 2017

Because of conflicts on the other weekends in October, we had our annual family costume party today. It was my turn to host and I had a scavenger/treasure hunt planned and the weather was calling for rain! I was praying that the rain would hold off until after the party or let up when it was time for the game. It ended up being rainy, but it wasn't too bad so we went ahead with the game.

My brother's family minus his oldest

My sister's family.
My nephew was a pumpkin and the hat was his stem!

 Time for the treasure hunt:

My youngest niece

Halloween Activities Part 4

This post actually contains several different activities, but I decided to go ahead and just post them all together. 

School's Spooktacular Family Night:

The student council had a pumpkin carving contest (which we never got any info home about).  Will had mentioned something about it while I was doing something else, but I thought it was something they were doing in his class.  So Monday morning before the bus came, I carved a mini pumpkin.  Will wanted to use the face he'd drawn on his own mini pumpkin, so I carved it, too.  Emily entered the first pumpkin.

Will's pumpkin won for "Smallest in the K-2 division"

Emily's pumpkin

Family friendly haunted hall

Class Parties:

Sarah's class didn't have a party (She rotates between 4 teachers), Emily's teacher originally said they weren't going to have one, either, but then ended up having one but it was the same time as Andy's party.  So I got to help with William's and Andy's parties. 

Will:

All the painted pumpkins

Will's is the one in the back row with the long stem

 

Andy:

Downtown Trick or Treating:

Emily with her "Friend Snake"  We had to go over so she could hold it

Residential Trick or Treating:

We have only gone trick or treating door to door one other time (our church usually ends up having special meetings the week of Halloween), but we were able to go this year (Dan even took the day off from work).

My sister's family

Trunk or Treat:

Sarah's friend's church has "trunk or treat" and fun activities, so since it was raining, we decided to spend some time there.