Following the parade, I stayed to help with Ashlyn's class party. It was a big hit! There were some of your usual games like Twister, Halloween Bingo, cookie decorating and then some of your more unusual games like dressing up your classmate as a mummy! The kids had a great time!
I made a quick stop in Blake's class. They had yummy fruit and donuts for their party.
(Blake and his wonderful teacher- Mrs. Pine!)After school was out, Blake, Crew, and I went to Grandma's house to raid her closets for a costume. Blake ended up with Uncle Justin's football pads and helmet and Uncle Micah's Toro practice jersey from a couple of years ago. Crew came home with an old football helmet that my brothers played with when they were little. You can see it's been well played with!
When all was said and done, Crew wore Blake's old Toro jersey, Blake wore my brothers old jersey and pads, and Emma was their cheerleader. Ashlyn was the odd one out being a gypsy. Oh well, we weren't going to change since I made her costume. Yes, I did get the old sewing machine out to put that baby together. I know you're all shocked... it happens once in a long while.
A little side note: When I was in 2nd grade I was a gypsy too! My mom was also frequently a gypsy for Halloween. I guess the dressing up in make up and jewelry bling runs in the family!
For dinner we went to Grandma Teresa's cul de sac for our annual pot luck. It's fun to see my neighborhood friends that I grew up trick or treating with. The food's great too!! You just can't beat a good hot meal before going out and trick or treating and getting all tanked up on sugar.
We then rushed back to our neighborhood to hook up with our friends for some trick or treating. Our group was like a MOB this year! It was out of control crazy. I had to keep calling out my children's names to make sure they were still part of the costume mob. In our neighborhood we were the only large group of trick or treaters on the street so I would reassure the neighbors that we would be the only big group of trick or treaters they would have as I went up to the door with Crew and see how overwhelmed they were with the crowd.
(This is just a portion of our original group)Well as our mob made its way down the street, our group changed all night. We would loose a family here and there and pick up another along the way. One of those families we picked up was my brother Nathan and his family. We were soooooo excited to have them. They don't usually come out here for Halloween since they have a 40 minute drive. Since Halloween was on Friday night they decided to come and hang out late with us!! The kids were so happy to have their cousins with them. It just made the night!
When we got home from our first round of spooking, we had a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Thompson. Yea!! It's so great that they came to see us. Our kids love all their grandparents sooo much and they enjoy seeing them. After our quick photo op we hopped in the car to make more visits.
We went to my brother Jake's house to check out his spooky door. As we drove down his street we could see his entire cul de sac was covered in fog. Jake had 3 professional fog machines going and a black light , strobe lights etc. You get the idea. With a graveyard for a front lawn and real bugs hanging in the spider webs, it was a creepy sight.
We were off again (with Nathan's family) to actually trick or treat Grandma Teresa and then Great Grandma and Grandpa White. It was pretty late... 10 o'clock to be exact, by the time we left Great Grandma's house. They were troopers to stay up and wait for us to come by for a very quick hi and Happy Halloween.
To top off the night, on our way home we caught some kids tee peeing my moms house. It was so funny to run them down and put them in the spot light of our car! You could see how horrified and embarrassed they were. Justin made them come back to clean it up. He knew he would be the one to have to clean it up and he did not want to. So he dragged them back for a clean up.
It was definitely an adventurous Halloween for us! But really it wouldn't be a Thompson Halloween without a Thompson adventure!!!
