Halloween Party 2013

Wow, these past few days/weeks have been super crazy! We got back from WDW late Thursday night, then I went to a painting party on Friday night (post and VIDEO to come in the next few days!), and then Saturday night was our family’s annual Halloween Party! All of that while being sick too. Sorry to those that were near me the past few days - I wasn’t about to miss out on any of the festivities and I made sure to use my hand sanitizer!

Before I get to this year, here is a photo of what we dressed up as last year…a pirate family!

OMG look at how adorable Trent is in his little pirate costume! Kills me. Luckily, we’ll get to wear these costumes again for the Pirate Party on the Disney Cruise in January, although I will need to get a new costume for Trent since that one is now too itty bitty for him. I’m hoping to score a good deal with either a last-minute Halloween or after-Halloween discount.

This year, we had an even tougher time deciding what to be, since we knew we were also going to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party in Walt Disney World. The last time we went (2008 I think), I dressed as a Disney character and had the best time, so I wanted to do SOMETHING Disney. But it seems like we found issues with almost every idea we thought of…ORRR it may have been because Brett decided what HE wanted to be long before any of it and there was no convincing him otherwise. Yes, my friends, my husband takes Halloween very serious and will hopefully one day transition his costume efforts to his kids instead of his middle-aged self. But I digress…

This year, we were a Star Wars family!

Brett was Anakin Skywalker, I was Padme Amidala and Trent was Yoda. I’ll talk more about where we got our costumes in another post, as some of it was purchased and some of it was made by us Brett.

Trent was kind of a butthead with his costume, sometimes he didn’t mind wearing it and most of the time he didn’t want anything to do with it. Like at the Halloween Party at WDW. That would be why we have ZERO photos of us at that party (which makes me incredibly sad)….we barely left the hotel room without him ripping it off.

But at least he left it on a little while longer at this party.

Note to self: A skin tight all white costume is a very bad idea after a Disney vacation.

Onward.

Here are some other cool costumes from that night:

A Gladiator…with camouflage shorts lol

A cheetah. Auntie Jane always creates her costumes from random stuff from her shop. So simple and creative!

A witch.

A firefighter…at least a teenage girl version of one.

A Witch and a Warlock.

One Night Stand and 50 Shades of Grey. Mr. One Night Stand took his costume off after 10 minutes because he couldn’t eat, drink or sit in it! But we sure did have a good laugh for those 10 minutes. Yes, there was even a condom on it. And yes, there were actually 50 shades of grey on her. Home Depot is going to start charging for their paint samples lol.

Evil scientist and a pirate.

The hosts with most…a ghost couple!

A goddess and a lumberjack (or Billy Mays or the Brawny guy)

A Flapper girl.

Besides the costumes, the food is always a big deal! Most people bring a Halloween-themed dish or at least think of a Halloween name for it.

Brett made a cheese ball shaped into a pumpkin (recipe post forthcoming). This was a hit. Cheese + Doritos is always a good thing in my book.

He also made “Zombie Flesh Cupcakes” - Chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting, topped with candied bacon…modeled after the King Cupcake at Pop Century in WDW!

He also made his famous deviled eggs, with a Halloween twist! It killed him to touch the chives for the pumpkin stems…he HATES any kind of onion. These were also quickly entirely consumed.

Mummy dogs. If you make these, I suggest cutting the hot dogs in half to make bite-sized mummy dogs that are easier to grab and eat.

Chocolate spiders.

Witch’s Brew Trifle (you can see the recipe on my sister-in-law’s blog here).

Bones and blood (breadsticks and pizza sauce).

Various chocolate treats.

Crunchy zombie eyes…a Pinterest favorite with a Halloween spin.

An annual must…a vomiting pumpkin! That’s some tasty vomit (cream cheese/corn dip).

Trail mix.

Chocolate wizard hats.

The dessert table in all it’s glory.

Sweet Ogre Eyes (meatballs).

Kitty litter and poo (rice and beef). It felt weird eating from this!

Various drink concoctions.

Brett’s mom sure goes all out with the Halloween decorations. Here’s just a sample…

It was a somewhat chilly night, which made sitting by the fire all the more delightful.

Trent had his own little glowstick lightsaber, but he much preferred Brett’s fancy lightsaber!

That’s not very nice, Yoda.

May the force be with you!

 

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xoxo

Lynn