Halloween Party Decor & Food

Okay so I don't know what got into me but I was in the mood to just get festive--so I had lots of fun getting ready for our Halloween party! 

 Our front door...

 featuring Lilly and Reid's handprint ghouls (idea source),

 milk jug ghosts (idea source),

 ghost lights (idea source),

 and, of course, our family carved jack-o-lantern.

 Then this is the table that is in our entry way.  (Lilly's princess sippy cup photo bombed my picture.  Ha!)

 Mummy candles (idea source).  I just used a roll of white crepe paper and some googly eyes.  My Halloween party decorating motto was "Put googly eyes on it!"  ( ; 

 Trick-or-treat buckets and candy for trick-or-treaters.

 And some handprint and footprint art from my favorite artists and the pumpkins that they painted last weekend at Hannah's birthday party.

 Tissue ball jack-o-lanterns and spiders.  You guys are not going to believe this...but I thought of this on my own!  This is probably the only idea I didn't get from Pinterest!  I was feeling pretty crafty for this!! 

 These hung right above the food table in the picture below.

 This was the kids' food table! 

 We had mummy dogs,

 strawberry ghosts,

 witch brooms and hats (I tried to PIN this so I could give proper credit but it said it was reported as inappropriate and wouldn't let me PIN it.)  I picked these fun treats because I knew Lilly and Reid could make them. 

 They were so excited to make some special treats.  Reid would make one and say, "I got another broom!" 

 You just turn the small reeces over (not the mini ones but not the big ones either) and then put a pretzel stick in it.  These must have been good because they were gone fast! 

 Lilly had to line all of hers up before she started.  She had a little assembly line going on.  ( : 

 Mandarin Oranges disguised as jack-o-lanterns (idea source).  ( ; 

 And then I put some chips in fun bags. 

 The drink station--I just drew ghost faces on some white cups, jack-o-lantern faces on some orange cups, and put some googly eyes on some black cups.  Cheap frugal and cute--just my style. 

 My friend Jennifer Smith brought this fun Ranch Dip--it was so good! 

 This was the dessert bar.  There was a candy apple bar (that we set up after trick-or-treating), cookie dough dip, pumpkin dip, and white-chocolate covered pretzels. 

 Jennifer made the cookie dough dip, too, and again it was so good! 

Then the adult food!  We had turkey and black bean chili and chicken tortilla soup.  I used my decorating motto and just added googly eyes to the bowls, too.  Ha!  If it didn't moved I googly eyed it!  I will try to add a recipe post this week, too.  I had so much fun planning it and crafting with the kids and getting everything ready and I was pleased with how it all turned out!  All of the trick-or-treaters are in the post below--so make sure you check out all of that cuteness!!

Trick-or-Treat!

Wednesday night (Halloween) we had a little Halloween party at the house.

 We had some sweet friends from our church over.  Here are some of the kids--some had already started trick-or-treating right before we took this.  This was the one where the most kids were looking.  Ha!  Anna Kate as a bumblebee, Addy as Jesse, Cilla the ballerina, Brody the fireman, Hudson (not in costume yet), Lilly as Cinderella, Levi the fireman, Reid the cowboy farmer, and Sam as Woody.  I just kept squealing at all of the cuteness! 

 I had to post this picture because it cracks me up!  Nobody is looking and I don't know what Reid is doing with that hat.  Ha! 

 We painted some pumpkins.  I put out paint and then we are not sure it is washable.  I know we have gotten it on Lilly and Reid's clothes before and it came out but half-way through the painting we realized the bottles didn't have "washable" on them.  OOPS! 

 Creating some masterpieces! 

 We had some super cute trick-or-treaters come by including Cooper--our neighbor's little cutie!  (:

 Then we got ready to go trick-or-treating!  We could only find one of Reid's cowboy boots so we just went with Cars rainboots and then he wanted to wear that hat instead of his cowboy hat.  Ha!  I just love that boy! 

 Our little princess! She, too, traded her crown for that red headband.  ( ; 

 Sweet Cilla!

 Addison!  Look at those big blue eyes.  Precious!!

 "Trick-or-treat!" or "Happy Halloween!"  I will say I was so proud that all of our kids said, "Thank you!" at each house.  LOVE when I hear those sweet words!

 Lilly was the official door-bell-ringer of the night.  She LOVED trick-or-treating. 

 The kids gathered up waiting for some candy.  They would say, "Let's go to another house and get more candy!"  I laughed because they completely understood that if the light was on--they had candy!

 This house had a bowl with the hand in it and when they put their hand in the bowl the fake hand came down on their hand...NONE of the kids would put their hand in the bowl.  She had to turn it off.  Ha! 

This house just had candy in little bags ready for the kids.  They also had cards on them that invited them to our church so I thought that was awesome! 

 There was one house in our neighborhood that went all out.  The kids were calling it the "Halloween house."  I was kind of surprised that they weren't scared by it but they all liked it. 

 And then I loved this lady's outfit--she is pregnant and her shirt has a little baby skeleton on it. 

 Will the pirate! 

 And then baby Duke the frog. 

 Then this was one of my favorite costumes.  Brent dressed up as Matt for Halloween!  I thought it was hysterical.  Matt ALWAYS has a razorback shirt on and khaki shorts (year round regardless of the weather)...

 He had a name tag on that said, "Hello my name is Matt S." 

We had so much fun and are so thankful for sweet friends and the opportunity to make some fun memories!  Lilly and Reid had so much fun and have asked me 5 times today when the next Halloween is.  Ha!  I think they got enough candy to last us until then, too.  ( ;  Well, maybe not if I keep eating it all.