Doing our best to recreate the Miller-Creswell family Halloween parties of a few years ago, we invited Jennifer, Ian, Liam and Graham, and Jeff. Grace got a better offer, if you can imagine that. The basic ingredients of those parties when our kids and theirs were young were bobbing for apples and then making those into caramel apples, costumes, chili for dinner, and anything else we decided to get creative about.
So, we had those basic required elements of "the Halloween party". But, something new that was probably the best part of the whole evening were our trick-or-treat helpers! Liam and Graham are probably the only kids I've known who got great joy out of giving candy away and didn't really seem all that interested in getting some themselves. They positively squealed with delight each time there was a knock on the door. They ran to the door and got so excited when they saw the different kids in costumes. I've never had that much fun giving out the treats myself. Those two were a real kick. So, here are a few pictures from the evening:
Molly - not overly enthused about her "costume
Jennifer bobbing for an apple with tips from Graham
Ian did it the right way - going all the way down to the bottom of the "cauldron"
Liam and Graham were both successful bobbers
the same version of chili I wrote about a couple weeks ago
2 witches and a ghost
close up of the pin on one of the witches
Jennifer in one of the famous bug hats *
even the chicken gets into the party spirit
*Previous appearances of the famous bug hats at our house:
2 comments:
i need me a bug hat !
help me out , what was molly's costume? pumpkin paws?
Yes, Molly was wearing a pair of my Halloween sox on her paws - orange with white ghosts on them. Always hard to get good photos of her.
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