Happy Halloween
Twas the week before Halloween and all through the land not a creature (or monster) was stirring, not even a zombie. Except this zombie, me! I was baking and icing and preparing for the pre-halloween party at my kids school. There is a haunted village for those in grade 3 and under (nothing scary), a larger, scarier haunted house for those older and usually there are bounce houses outside, but because it rained this year that was out. So I was tasked with making 4 dozen cupcakes for the "cake walk" in the village. I made 2 dozen that were just orange Buttercream (also and heretofore known as BC) and 2 dozen were BC and hand-painted fondant. Using a round cutter the size of the cupcake top I cut them out a and lined them all up then started painting them with the school colors and mascot - a falcon. I thought they turned out pretty well and the girls giving away the cakes at the walk were saving mine till the very last so everyone could see them, bless their little hearts!
But alas halloween has come and gone here and what a great time we had. It was all very exhausting, but the whole town came alive and everyone enjoyed themsevles. At the private school they attend they were allowed to wear their costumes to school. I knew they would get uncomfortable and possibly tear them up, but they just had to do it. Then there was the 2 hour party (yes, I said 2 hrs) in Stevie's class. I made the cake! Big surprise, right? This is what I came up with. A pumpkin patch! The kids loved it. It was time consuming frosting all those individual cakes and it wasn't as polished as I would have liked, but I think it came out ok. By the end of the day there were only crumbs left!
There was a costume parade in town for all the children. The merchants came out to the sidewalks in front of their business' and gave out candy to all of the darth vaders, princess', pirates, baby lion's, and lady bugs....among others.
There had to have been about 200 or more children there. It got crowded pretty quickly. So we hit one street then got outta dodge. At the kids school there was a small trick or trunk party so we headed there for a little while.
Then we headed off to a kickin' party at a local church. There was free food and drinks. Everything was free - the bounce houses, the games, and more trick or trunkin'. It was so nice to take the kids somewhere we didn't have to pay out the nose for! So after dragging them away from the last bounce, lugging home 3 bags (loaded with candy they don't need), hosing off the sticky mess and dirt, and tucking them into bed I was finally able to sit down and crash while they sleep SOUNDLY in their beds. What a peaceful sound that is.....silence. Second only to their laughter and "I love you's". While they were sleeping I started this blog.....then I fell asleep. So, after another busy day at karate and dance and cleaning and laundry and playing outside, I finally sat down to finish it.
This was a pumpkin my hubby carved. He took the image from the picture of us next to that. By the way that picture is a printed canvas I had made for hubby on our anniversary. It was taken from a picture that we took of ourselves back during out early dating phase. Look how sappy we are!
This is my big man working hard on his skeleton picture during a craft session of the party. He is sitting next to ONE of his girlfriends, Elizabeth. See how hard he is working to impress her? See how hard she is working to ignore him? Ah....young love!
Well, I hope you had a really good Halloween and that you are stuffed full of twizzlers, snickers, and dots! Cause now it is time to get back to business, the business of planning and preparing for Thanksgiving and the shopping day after Thanksgiving and then it all starts over again for Christmas. Oh don't we LOVE this time of year!