Halloween 2011

Wow, can I say how glad I am for Halloween to be over?? Man, it was seriously fun but A LOT of work. Definitely worth all the work, but very overwhelming at times. Lillie and Henry had a play group party on Friday morning, a base party that night, then I threw a dental resident party on Saturday night, and Monday night was trick or treating on the base.
The playgroup party was laid back and fun for the kids, where they decorated sugar cookies, played together and ate too much candy. Lillie went as Rapunzel and Henry was Spiderman. I took a large costume that would probably fit a 10 year old and sized it down to fit my 1 year old. It worked surprisingly well, although it took up a whole morning and stressed me out.
I spent pretty much the whole month of October in preparation for the party that I threw, but it was a total success. I hadn't laughed that hard in months! We ate lots of yummy food, played minute to win it games, backwards charades, and even squeezed in some oink piggy oink. Because I was the host, I did not get any pictures, so I'm waiting to get some from my awesome friend, who did take lots of pics. I'm so glad that we are here with such great people. I cannot say that enough.
Halloween night was especially fun because of how much Lillie loved trick or treating. She was an adorable Tooth Fairy and was in love with all the different costumes that the kids had on and how each house was decorated. We walked around to quite a few houses and she still wanted more, so I sent Eric out to take her around to the Colonels' houses. Because she did so much trick or treating, she had SO MUCH candy. Ugh. So now I have to tell her no 20 times a day, so that she can stick to eating one piece a day... if she eats her meals. I know we're going to throw away 2/3rds of it.

Playgroup Picture

Decorating Halloween cookies

Eric and Lillie's Pumpkin



This is a recycled set of costumes from two years ago. Except we added a tooth fairy and made Henry the tooth.

Lillie and her best bud, Jack

Family Pic on the Hay Ride

Another recycled costume because I didn't want her getting her tooth fairy get up dirty before Halloween. She loves dressing up as Jessie, I love how she insisted on adding the mustache.

Lillie really wanted to show my mom our Halloween decorations.