Halloween Party

This weekend my friend Brandy and I put together a Halloween party for the kids. This is the first Halloween with kids for most of our friends up here so we wanted an excuse to get all the kids dressed up and hang out together. It turned out to be a fun evening full of lots of great food, friends, pumpkin carving and happy and sad kids. Poor Neal was not feeling very well that night so we hardly got any pictures of him smiling. I think he is working on another tooth which is why he was so teary eyed that night but maybe he just really didn't like being a monkey :)



As you can see below we had a very hard time getting all the kids to stay still for a good photo shoot on the sofa. We tried our best and at least you can see all their cute costumes.



Here is Neal with his friends Kaleb, the puppy and Luke, the cow.



We had so many yummy snacks/desserts. It was fun to have an excuse to make some fun fall/Halloween desserts. Brandy made some cupcakes and decorated them with icing pumpkins and I made a spiderweb cheese cake topped with a candy spider. My mom gave me this guacamole recipe that I tried for the first time also and it was a hit. She told me it was the best guacamole she had ever had and I would have to say I agree, it was the best guacamole I have had so I will be keeping that recipe and making it again in the future.



Neal was so tired that half way through the party we actually put him down for a nap in Jonathan's room and he slept for almost an hour. After his nap he seemed a lot happier and even played some with Kaleb before we left.


We got home that evening in time to pass out a little bit of candy to the few trick-or-treater's that came by our place. It was overall a fun evening. We always have a blast with our close friends and really who doesn't like a party right? By the time we got home Neal felt just good enough to smile for a few "First Halloween" pictures. Doesn't he make the cutest monkey you've ever seen?