Pumpkin Massacre.

This post was originally written and posted on October 20, 2011.

West's sister, Lindee, had her annual Halloween dinner and pumpkin carving party. Lindee throws a good family friendly Halloween bash and we love going every year. Her house was decorated fun, inside and out, and in the garage the massacre... I mean, the creativity was flowing.

Also I heard this song on the radio this morning :).

Jayme's werewolf jack o lantern is eating the ribbon, not puking. We need to make that clarification.

Sean enlisted the help of Uncle Sam. 

 Cali kept carving away at her mouth after this picture was taken, making the mouth huge.

It's officially Halloween season when you have pumpkin guts in your hair. 

We're working on our costumes right now. Sadly, we won't be able to have Jay and Sean with us this year on Halloween night (Boo!!! (haha pun intended)), but maybe we can finagle them for the trunk or treat. Right now we're pulling together costumes for a dead skateboarder, a half devil half angel, the Cheshire cat, and a vampire. 

And if we're lucky on trunk or treat, we'll also be pulling together costumes for a dead hula girl and the grim reaper. 

We're full steam ahead. 

A lot of them are repeat costumes that we already had so we only need to gather a few small items, but the half devil half angel is new and that's taking a little work. I finished a large piece of it last night and I'm really pleased with how it's turning out.

Halloween 2008.

This post was originally written and posted on November 19, 2008.

The girls got to wear their costumes to daycare on Halloween, so we got up first thing in the morning and got ready.

 After our obligations of work and daycare we headed to my sister McKell's house and went trick or treating and played with the family.

I just cannot say enough about my family and how much I love them and am so grateful for their love and support to me.

It was a great Halloween just because I got to be with the ones who love me most.

Jasmine Cali:

Witchy Tayler:

Poodle skirt Brynn:

Casidee the dead cheerleader (I knew that old Spirit club uniform would come in handy one day):

My brother Cody, Roya, and Yasi:

 Cody was a walking fortune cookie. "Confucius say, 'When path is narrow tread lightly,'" and "Confucius say,'When path is wide tread lightly.'" When I asked him what my fortune was he put his arm around me and said, "Baby, I see nothing but goodness coming from you, it only gets better from here."

I love my brother!

Bryce (nephew) looked amazing!

The trick or treating group, minus Daniel:

This is what happens when you pick Mom (me) to be your partner in the mummy wrap game:

Deja (niece) did a great job on Casidee:

West showed up with his kids in time for the games:

Sparring with my brother Cody, while the kids tore into candy and the adults were... outside by a toilet paper fire I think.

What was I thinking?! I've never done it before and the man had no mercy on me! He finally took one kick across my back that winded me and I was done. But certainly something I want to learn from him. It was fun to connect with him on something he enjoys so much.

The Haunting Hour

Have I mentioned how much we love Halloween around this house?

Well, most of us anyway.

This week we had the fun opportunity to host a party for R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour. 

You know, R.L. Stine who's the author of Goosebumps... and The Haunting Hour.

The Haunting Hour is now a TV series (check out The Hub and The Haunting Hour HERE), and we got to preview two episodes at our party. 

So we decorated the basement,

 invited best friends and neighbors,

bought a bunch of party food,

and got dressed up like vampires (since the episodes that we got to watch were about a Grampire).



To start the night off we made sure everyone had a pair of vampire fangs.



And with those fangs we decided to have a little contest, since The Hub sent us a whole box of goodies to give out, and we figured a contest to win one of the t-shirts would be a great way to start things out.

We weren't wrong.

All the kids sat in a circle, put their fangs in their mouth, and I dished out a scoop of jell-o on a plate in front of them.

Okay everyone, plates on the floor.

Hands behind your back.

Get ready,

get set,

go!

And with fangs in their mouths they raced to be the first to eat their jell-o.



Can I just say that if you happen to have a bowl of jell-o and some plastic fangs lying around... I would highly suggest doing this activity. 

I love having parties because it means making the kids do crazy things like this.

Our proud winner starting the night off right.





The Hub sent us a box full of t-shirts, stickers, glow in the dark fangs, and glow in the dark slap bracelets.

We had the kids put their names in a bowl and drew names out, giving away all of the stuff.

And then we got to watch two episodes of "The Haunting Hour."

I have to admit, the kids were spell bound by the show. 

And I might have been too.

We loved it!  But with R.L. Stine and Halloween, what's not to love?

And guess what?  If you want to check out The Haunting Hour, it's on The Hub now, Saturdays 6 p.m. ET.

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We loved doing this party and we loved watching the show.