Emily has this family tradition when it comes to Halloween. All of the Halloween foods are prepared and labeled with numbers (in our case 1 - 12). Each person then gets individual numbers (again 1 - 12) in an envelope. You draw out three numbers, and those are the three food items you get to put on your plate. Then, a few minutes later everyone goes back for another course - three more items who's numbers you've drawn from your envelope. This goes on until everyone has had a chance to draw all their numbers.
My dilemma came when I drew #10 (the salad) but did not draw #7 (the fork). How do you eat salad without a fork?
William loved it because he drew #4 on his first try - CUPCAKES!
Fun, fun, fun.
After dinner, the kids all took turns getting their pictures taken. Emily put up her white backdrop, and Whitni took all the pictures - they were wonderful, like always!We tried to get a picture of all three of my kids together, but they just wouldn't cooperate. Aubrey wanted to go trick-or-treating, William was running around playing Ben 10, and Brooke - well, she's just Brooke which should explain it.
Beautiful Cowgirl.
Transforming Ben 10
Silly Clown
After dinner and pictures we went Trick-or-Treating with our neighbors. Kiran and I took her kids, mine, plus the other neighbor kids. Can you say CANDY!Since it was a holiday, and a Friday, I decided to let the kids stay up a little late and watch "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Ichabod Crane." You know - the old 1949 cartoon that scared the crap out of you as a kid. I was worried that the kids wouldn't be able to sleep that night - but NO - they weren't scared a bit.
In fact Aubrey said, "Mom, this scared you? How old were you?"
I didn't dare tell her I was 13. What is it with these kids?
3 comments:
What fun memories. You are so creative - those cupcakes YuM! The pictures turned out cute too.
Camille, you crack me up. You always put a smile on my face with your hilarious comments on your blog. Thank you!
And what cute costumes. I was looking at your kiddos and was jealous because they were so tan and I wasn't. And then I remembered that we live in Kansas and it stopped being sunny and warm about 3 months ago.
I LOVE the idea of the dinner with #s. That would be fun for a family reunion meal too.
The photos are great of your kids. That's super funny about the movie too. Our kids have grown up in a totally different world, haven't they?
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