Halloween Party

If National Night Out is my favorite night in the neighborhood, the annual Halloween party is my favorite afternoon in the neighborhood.

Wesley dressed up like a Wampa. He had to explain to me what a Wampa is - the ice creature that attacks Luke at the beginning of the Empire Strikes Back.  Why are ALL the characters, the good guys and bad guys, in Star Wars celebrated?

Mickie and Minnie!

One of my neighbors is a very talented art teacher and party activity planner! She put plastic animals in jello, covered the bowl, and let the kids stick their hands in the bowl and pull out a "prize".  Her husband ran the game for the kids.

Wesley and Lydia loved it!

They liked their prizes.

Poor Josiah.  He didn't get it and just kept pulling out small pieces of Jello.  (He didn't mind though.)

My neighbor also organized a mummy wrapping game which was a lot of fun.

She had cool crafts for the kids to do too.  That's her handing out candy for the costume parade.  Josiah quickly ditched his cute costume.

We completed the parade before it started raining!

This family had on cute Toy Story costumes.  I completely forgot about my costume until I was already there and the party had started.  Next year....

The kids played on the playground throughout the party until it started raining.

My sweet neighbor who helped with the party with Lydia and one of the girls from her dance class.  The girls figured out we are neighbors at the party.

The kids also decorated cookies.

I think the party went really well and we had a great turn out.