We had a great Halloween this year. We had our 4th annual Halloween Party and had tons of fun! Annalyse was a dolphin trainer this year. She has wanted to be a dophin for the past two years but the only costumes I can find on line are mascot costumes that cost $1000. Sooo... Mom Mom came up with the idea of her being a dolphin trainer (since that is what she wants to be when she grows up anyway!) We got a black unitard to look like a wet suit. We bought a whistle and a bucket for her fish. The label on the bucket has the Sea World logo with "dolphin food" typed under it. Then I made her a name tag that has the logo and her name with "dolphin trainer" typed under it. She also had some water shoes that were hand me downs from some friends. Then we got her wagon and put blue plastic balls and some blue tissue paper for the water and put her big stuffed animal dolphin "Squeak" in as the dolphin she was training. She was so proud and as most of you know played the part perfectly. That girl knows how to pretend!
Lucy was a "nice" bumble bee. She said she wanted to be a nice because she didn't want to sting anyone. That is just like her. She has a heart of gold. She is so loving and tender hearted. My friend Amy let us borrow her little girls costume from last year and it fit perfectly. She was precious.
My precious bumble bee!
I loved her sweet little wings. So delicate.
Look at all the cool food we had! This is a cheese ball (coated in doritos, yum!!) made into a Jack o lantern.
We had scary punch that had a hand and spiders floating in it!
My sweet friend Ashley made these cute little fruit cups. Can you imagine how long that took her to carve out each one of those? We also had eyeballs made out of powdered donuts with a green m & m in the middle and then red lines drawn on the donut to look like bloodshot eyes. We had string cheese with almonds at the tips that looked like fingers. We had ghosts made out of marshmellows. I wish I had taken pictures of all the food but things get a little crazy with all the people and kiddos running around. It was too fun!
I even got creative and made a scary little tree decoration. The girls filled up the mini Halloween buckets with some goodies for the kids as they came in. I got two branches and spray painted them black and stuck them in a bucket and put some moss around it. I thought it turned out pretty cute. I think handing out the buckets was Annalyse's favorite part. She was upset after she realized that some of the kids left without their buckets. She was so sweet and very excited to get to hand out the buckets.
The kids also decorated Halloween cookies. They always love that part because they get to eat them immediately. Nothing like adding a little extra sugar to the candy they are already getting! We made Lucy her "eggless" cupcakes and she got to decorate those and loved it. Having food allergies couldn't have happened to a better kid. She has such a great attitude about it all. She never whines about not getting what everyone else has. Plus, she is definitely her daddy's girl and doesn't have a big sweet tooth anyway. Unlike Annalyse who has my sweet tooth and would eat sweets 24/7!
Annalyse's cookie with as many sprinkles as she could possibly fit. That's my girl! Notice the precious skunk in the back ground!
My good friend Katherine has one of those electric cars that looks like a golf cart. She decorated it and she drove around in the trick or treat mobile. She had spooky music and everything. It was so cool and if anyone needed a ride at anytime we could just jump on. With so many people trick or treating at one time, about 50, we end up spreading out pretty quickly through the neighborhood. All in all we had another great Halloween. The only thing we didn't do this year was carve pumpkins. We just ran out of time!
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