I’m behind again in my posts. Most of my free time on the computer has been spent studying for a test that I have to take before the end of the year, so I’ve put a couple things on the back burner until I get more prepared for my test. However, I realized how far I was getting behind, so I thought I’d try to do a little catch up.
Sadly, the night of the Halloween party at Mouse and Pops’s house, I had my camera on the wrong setting so many of my pictures didn’t turn out the best. It was also a bit sad that the word through the grapevine is that this year was the last year for the Halloween Party. There was something about maybe the kids getting too old, but I certainly didn’t see any of that this year (wink, wink!!).
We ended up with a beautiful evening for the party. It was warm enough and it wasn’t raining, so it was a perfect evening for everyone to be outside.
Nina brought three friends from school, and along with the cousins, the Rumples, and the neighbors, there was a great group of kids.
Mouse and Pops work so hard every year to make the party a blast. The kids always look forward to it, and every party is a hit! We so appreciate all the hard work that goes into the party. We know it’s a labor of love every year, but it has been something the kids have genuinely loved. At the campfire, we counted back the years of the party, and they’ve been doing it for eight straight years. We’ll certainly miss Madame Vanish and her trusty sidekick, Lucius.
The first activity was a bit HIT this year (no pun intended). There was a rowdy and fun game of dodgeball that got things started with the adult men (including Jonathan) versus the women and children. :) No one took it easy on anyone - young or old!
They had more activities until it got dark, then they took a dinner break before heading out for more. I had snapped a picture of the girls before Layne got over in the group, so I think I’m getting a littly pay back here on that! :)
By the end of the evening, it was time for the haunted walk through the forest and the concluding bonfire. As always, the haunted walk got plenty of screams, and again this year the kids wanted to put on their own haunted walk for the adults to walk through afterwards. We had another great party, and it was awesome to have the Rumples there again as they’ve made it to every Halloween party since it started! I’ll miss this fun night in the future, but maybe we’ll just have to find a way to carry on the tradition of getting together just in another way.
Halloween followed about 1 1/2 weeks after the Halloween Party, and it was another beautiful evening! Halloween was on a school day, and the kids weren’t allowed to wear costumes to school, but Lyla had the coolest dress to wear to school on Halloween. I loved it! Her costume that year was a 7’3” tall inflatable dinosaur. My mom had bought it for the Halloween party, and Lyla loved it so much that she was allowed to borrow it for Halloween. She got so many compliments and comments on it everywhere she went. While it wasn’t the easiest costume to navigate steps, tree branches, etc with, it was worth it to have such a memorable costume. She even met a mini-dino on her way around that evening.
Nina was a panda and Grace was a zombie softball player. Nina wasn’t supposed to be a zombie panda, but I guess her make-up artist, a.k.a. Mom, kind of made her look that way. All three girls had a great time, got loads of candy, and enjoyed another awesome neighborhood Halloween.
