Millie's Halloween Party

Our friend Amelia loves any excuse for a party. She is a girl with a vision, that's for sure. I didn't take my camera, so I had to rely on my phone for photos. I am still kicking myself over that one, since there was so much thought put into all the decorations and the activities.

When we arrived, Millie (Amelia) had already set up a "scene" at the dining room table.




Those are real potatoes those skeletons are "feasting" on—they've been a science project on their bookshelf for quite some time.

There was bobbing for apples:



Make your own skull/ghost/mummy pizza:




Some really tasty homemade chili with spider pastries:



A pinata:







Wicket, everybody's favorite Ewok, even showed up:



We didn't line the kids up and get photos of all of them in their fantastic costumes. You can see some of them in the pinata photos.

And many of the adults joined in on the action. Kelly and Craig were a witch and a vampire and had on ghoulish make up (so ghoulish that it was starting to freak Truman out, and he insisted that his dad wash that stuff off his face, which Craig did). I didn't get a good photo of the two of them, and I didn't get a photo at all of Kelly, it seems. She was too busy making pumpkin cookies to decorate (we ran out of time for that, so we just ate them, naked) and getting together the mummy craft (we ran out of time for that too, so she just sent all the kids home with the supplies). All that fun, and a gift bag too!

At the end, as most of the guests trickled away (some of them had to get home to do homework, two of them were former homeschoolers who jokingly shook their fists at us for being able to hang around into the later hours), the remaining parents sat around the table, shared some wine, and discussed costumes, Harry Potter, potentially haunted (or at least very creepy) houses and bloody noses. Martin stopped by after work (and was actually early enough to get in on most of the wine drinking fun). It was a very nice gathering, and we are really happy to have been included in on the fun.