Note to self - never tell a child something if you don't mean to follow through! Annie got sick at school and was home for the following several days, therefore missing her class Halloween party. SO - she asked if we could do a party. Sure, no problem... That night, she said our family prayer and was thankful that mom was going to have a party because she missed the school party and thankful for a mom who was so nice. YIKES!!! Two hours later, we plan a quick party for 46 hours later! After church on Sunday, we made some quick invites and took them to neighbors for a Monday evening at the Maas house - costumes appreciated but optional! {Costumes???? Annie wanted to be a bat, and I had a pattern and shirt for a month but not the other materials. Ben was Davy Crockett ((or Daniel Boone - can't remember which)) and needed a 'coon-skin hat. Emily was set with Cleopatra. No costumes put together yet!!! Which made Monday a very very very busy and long day.} BUT - we pulled it off and had a great party! Above, making spider webs...
Very thankful to 'West' (which according to Mitchell can be the husband or wife) for help with planning and corralling munchkins and also being on clean-up crew! They are the BEST pseudo-aunt/uncle we could ever have hoped for!!!
Yes, pictures of the food - tried to be pretty healthy - at least the healthy options were there! LOVED the yummy mummy dogs - will definitely do those again - maybe for a baby shower or something!
Played a game to keep the balloons up - remnants of our sign "He passed! Way to go, Dad!"
Ate some food....the Foster Fam!
Anywhere you could find a seat! Annie and Emily have two friends - Emma and Annabelle (not to be confused with our other friends, Annabelle and Mia) - they came too!
Another race game to move the candy corn up the stairs - had to split up the Big Kids and the Little Kids. Lots of fun, although somehow my kids all learned to throw elbows!!! Just thinking now, we should have done an adult version too!
The flour game, with the flour cup I grew up with! My brother is a Halloween baby, so I remember many (although Mom says it was only once or twice) parties with Halloween games - like this one. Fill a cup of flour, pack it down, turn it over and put a coin on top. You go around the circle with each person cutting off a bit of flour. Whoever cuts the flour to make the coin drop, has to fetch out the coin using only his/her mouth - no hands!!!
While Big Kids played the flour game, little Kids (which ended up being all the girls), were wrapped up like a mummy! They had a great time! Each adult took a child not of their own to mummify. Super fun - notice Mitchell above (wherever there might be a hope of food) and Everett below, watching the craziness he has come to expect every time he comes over!
Great party! Kids want to do it again next year - neighborhood kids all agree. We'll see...if it happens, we need to plan much more in advance! I was completely exhausted by the end of the night!!!!
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