Our Halloween Party 2014

We spent the 3 weeks before the party doing crafts, shopping at Goodwill 1/2 price days and decorating! It's amazing how many crafts are easy to do with kid in about 30 min. a night, or an hour on a Saturday afternoon. We got some pumpkins ready for the front door.

First we spent some time making toilet paper roll bats.

We made about 7 of these. We also colored a velumn poster I got from Goodwill.

We got some window clings, a glow in the dark spiderweb, some hanging lanterns and other window decorations. We moved some of them to different locations after the pictures.

I had a whole table with a black tablecloth, orange lights, a glass jar of glow sticks, and plush decorations but I forgot to take a picture. The kids painted some cardboard bunting I got from Michaels for $1.30. Totally easier than making it myself- plus the kids got an easy job that ended up being super cute (except the one that got painted sideways:)

I found these super cute favor baskets at Goodwill and we filled them with some random new toys we got at goodwill and a small bit of candy.

I also found some printable mason jars on pintrest (which were supposed to be for valentines day) and redesigned them for a Halloween gift for Jay's classmates. Normal spiders weren't sticking like we wanted, so when I got sling shot spiders 8-packs for .50 each (new) at Goodwill and got 4 packs. Then I attached them with string to make sure they would stay.

I had a bunch of activities for the kids to do, and when they completed it they could get a non-candy prize (yo-yo, cute notepad, paddle-ball).

This picture isn't clear, but is Jay taking his selfie with an adult:)

I got out some of the monster items from Jay's 1st birthday party:

I set the table with some Candy and other fun things. Then I added my pumpkin-looking cheese ball.

And I tried a few mummy pizzas before resorting to regular pizza because it was way easier.

Everyone had so much fun!

Video Andy reads...

Days with Daddy

John has been doing so much with the boys on their day off together. Andy did get stung by a bee, but he was fine.

Sometimes they go shopping (it was cool to see this even though they didn't get it)

Sometimes they send me silly pictures.

Of course they have spent a lot of time at the skate park:

They get creative when it is raining...

When we needed to buy a new washing machine 6 months after buying a new dryer...they can double the fun!

My experimental imovie movie

Pumpkin Patch Anderson Farms with family