Since our kids are still really little... I choose the costumes and it's always a family costume. This year we were Peter Pan, Wendy, Captain Hook and Tinkerbell. I know it's cheesy, but I don't care. And as soon as the kids can tell me what they want to be for halloween, we will probably try to do a family costume centered around their interests, but for now it's been fun.
Over the past few years I have collected lots of party decorations. What can I say? I guess it's the teacher in me that makes me such a pack rat? But it made preparing for this party really easy because all we had to do was clean and set up!
We started the day with going to Noah's school fall festival. First his class went trick-or-treating around the neighborhood and then we went and played games and had lunch on the playground.
Later on that evening a bunch of friends and I took Noah out trick-or-treating again at a few houses around the neighborhood. He really really got a kick out of that.
After trick-or-treating our party guests were due to arrive. I had planned on getting lots of pictures of the entire party, costumes, food, etc... but that just didn't happen. Noah dropped my camera on the ground and from then on all of the photos were blurry and strange looking and not even recognizable. My friend, Jenny, took a bunch of photos from the night which was very sweet and helpful, but there is still so much missing...I wish I could have taken more.
Anyways, despite a completely random rainstorm (which California really needed), the party was great and I think everyone had a blast!
