Second half of October 2012

On October 19th we got to attend Joy & Jordan's Halloween party! We brought two creepy treats, Dracula's Dentures (homemade chocolate chip cookies with red frosting, mini marshmallows, and almond slivers--entirely made by Faith and Bud),

and caprise skewer "eyeballs" (1/2 grape tomato, mini fresh mozzarella balls (bocconcini), torn piece of fresh basil leaf, and a slice of pimento olive, drizzled in a balsamic vinegar reduction--made by me).

We dressed up, of course!

I especially loved Eric's mullet:

Joy did some cute games for the kids. They especially loved "fishing" for spider rings with sparkly pipe cleaner hooks.

On the 20th we decided to use some passes for Cherry Hill that I'd gotten on sale. In the fall they call it "Scary Hill" and decorate their mini golf course with a Halloween theme. We had a great game of golf,

the kids loved their climbing gym/ball pit, and we shot each other with foam balls in their air powered ball-shooter room. It was a lot of fun!

That evening we went to Black Island Farms with Tammy.

Faith even won a pumpkin because of her great shot with the corn cob cannon!

One of their favorite activities this year was "skating" or "snowboarding" on their feet down the baby slide. Watch out little kids!!

Those who can handle carbs enjoyed trying mini cinnamon sugar donuts and some deep fried oreos.

The corn pit was a hit, as usual.

We even picked out some pumpkins before heading home.

On the 21st, after seeing fried cheese balls on an episode of "Diners, Drive-ins & Dives", I attempted to replicate them. It was basically three kinds of shredded cheese barely held together with a little egg and bisquick and flavored with green onion. They turned out delicious!

Before heading to the grandparents, Faith dressed up her baby.

My mom did some Halloween games for the kids over at her house.

On the 22nd it was mustache day at school as part of red ribbon week.

The 23rd was crazy hair day!

On the 24th we enjoyed some pomegranate.

On the 25th we had a crazy snowstorm! Lathan and Christian had a ton of fun making snowmen.

Much of it was melted by the next day, but the creations survived!

The 27th was our ward trunk-or-treat. We had a lot of fun and got to try some delicious soups.

On the 30th we did our pumpkin carving.

Tony took the 31st off so he wouldn't have to stress about not getting home in time to go trick-or-treating, so he got to be a room mother and help out with the kindergarten Halloween party. At our station we had the kids decorate cupcakes in ice cream cones with frosting in little ziplock "piping bags" and tons of fun, creepy candies.

Here is Faith's pumpkin:

and Christian's (with one of Tony's above it):

We went around the neighborhood until we froze, then stopped by so that my parents could see our costumes. At the Braeggers' we ate chili and Tony took Buddy around to some more houses. Tammy didn't disappoint with her darling goody bags. We had a great Halloween!