October Craze

Long time, no blog. I have been soooooo busy. No excuse. That's the truth! I guess it started with the 14 hour Halloween Crop at the Bee in October. I spent a lot of time helping plan games, set up, make food, etc. It was a lot of fun though but exhausting nonetheless. My daughter decided she wanted to join temple, finally. SO, we joined temple, started Sunday school, joined the choir, and got a private tutor for Hebrew lessons. Guess we are in it for the long haul now. Kiss all of my money goodbye. A Bat Mitzvah was expensive when I had one-a million years ago. Can only wonder what it will cost me when she is 13. Maybe this will be in lieu of a wedding. Can I convince her to run off to Vegas when it is time?

Halloween is my favorite holiday so we did it up pretty big. I had the Halloween Bunco AND Devyn's birthday at the house which gave my husband the needed justification to spend a ton of money on Halloween decorations. We went to Treats in the Streets and of course hit the houses on Halloween. Devyn's birthday party was the day after Halloween (early but we wanted to milk the decorations/theme), and we walked the Buddy Walk for Down's Syndrome the next morning. UGH! I was tired.

Back to the birthday-I came up with a Nightmare Before Christmas theme. It was cool AND pretty original if I do say so myself. However, due to Disney licensing, it was also impossible to find party supplies, games, etc. SO, I did everything myself. We had lots of skeleton decorations, black, orange and purple, bones, etc. We played pass the bone (hot potato), the mummy wrap (with toilet paper), drew Jack Skellington on our heads on paper plates,and pin the nose on Zero (Jack's dog. We had strobe lights, blacklights, and a disco ball. The kids danced and screamed. I bought a lifesize cutout of Jack, Sally, and Zero and took a pic of each kid with Devyn. We made cool frames that I had prepped and the kids got to put their pictures in them. They had glow jewelry and left with a cool CD that Ron had compiled. Spooky Nightmare music and pre-teen stuff. I also gave them sparkly notebooks that looked like presents with pointsettia flower pens that I had made. Food was pasta, fruit, munchies and bone-shaped breadsticks that I had made. The cake was amazing though-our friend made a purple fondant covered cake with Jack and black stars. Everything on the cake was edible except the sticks that the stars were on and Jack. I love fondant but the kids didn't care for it as much.

I will post some pics. Sorry for the long blog. Am I caught up now?