.:The Crows Nest:.: Halloween 2011

As was mentioned in my previous post, we had ourselves a little Halloween party for the kids a couple weekends ago, and it was pure awesomeness. I absolutely LOVE parties, treats, people being hosted; however, I have to admit that I am an absolute nervous wreck when I'm the one doing all the planning. Lucky for me, I have some wonderful sisters-in-law, who helped me plan, shop, cook, clean and even the boys (thanks Matt and Joe) helped decorate. Needless to say it was tons of fun getting this ready for the kids.

As I've also mentioned in previous posts, I lost my camera. So I apologize in advance that the pics I've posted are not uniform...I know it shouldn't bug me. But it does. Badly. I need professional help.

For dinner we had the ULTIMATE comfort food, baked potato soup. Not only was this a big bowl of warm creamy potato soup goodness but we topped it off with some cheddar cheese, green onions, crumbly bacon, and a dollop of sour cream. delicious. We also had rolls, your basic chips/dips/fruits/cupcakes/way too much candy, and my favorite of the night were these little critters:

How cute are these little Oreo bats?? and they were SUPER easy to make. Check out our best bites for the how to on these guys. My SIL Bink introduced me to this website a couple months ago and it is addicting.

Kicking off our picture overload is the cutest little girl I know...

Emelia!!! I usually don't post blurry pics; for obvious reasons, but that cute little face can NOT be denied. She wasn't sporting it in this pic, but emmy was a cute little cow for Halloween.

Chloe (cowgirl minus her hat), Lilly (Prom queen), and Laurel (Ariel).

Little miss Addeline as a witch

Kaleb as a crazy-eyed ninja lol! I love this kid.

I love Chloe's face in this pic lol. Uncle Matt decided he wanted to do face painting for the kids and they LOVED it.

Group picture! We we're even lucky enough to have two little Spider Men:)

Along with face painting we had games, prizes and a pinata for the kids. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of them mutilating the poor little mummy pinata, but they had SO much fun!

Initially this party was for the kids. Of course I was going to dress up, but I had NO idea that my in-laws were going to get THIS into it:

A Miami Vice twist on my BILs Jason and Dave

Leah and Bink as 80's girls. Aren't their costumes awesome? They obviously put a lot of work into these looks. Totally worth it!

LOL this is my BIL Joe. He was trying to figure out what to be last minute and came up with this awesome costume. I think we ended up deciding that he was one of those zombie killer video game guys. I'd say he pulled it off pretty well!