Big Sis Little Sis Halloween Party

For years I've wanted to have a Halloween party for my children. Not that my girls have really ever asked for one but because I love this day. But this year they actually asked. How could I refuse when they actually asked? I debated for a couple weeks and then took the plunge, but with my rules. Well, one rule really. Rule #1 I get to invite the kids. Otherwise we would end up having 50 kids at our house, none of which would know each other and I would have to plan separate parties for big kids and little kids. So I did what Mormon moms can do and invited their church friends. Now all these girls would have been on my girl's lists anyway but this way I could limit it to ONLY church friends. So we invited siblings that had at least two sisters in common with my three. The party was a HUGE success. We had games, food, prizes, party favors, music and this was all rounded out with my best decoration effort. We also took all 16 girls trick or treating. It was such a blast and my youngest declared, "This was my best Halloween ever."

Here are a few cool things we did:

* We made headstones for each girl with an epitaph of how they died. They had to find their headstone and lie down next to it until all the girls arrived.
* We had the touchy feely table of brains, kidneys, intestines and bones because every halloween party has to have one!
* I made witch hats using a ritz cracker, a dollop of cheese from a can and a bugle stuck to it.
* I made witch brooms by taking a piece of fruit by the foot, attaching it to the end of a small pretzel stick and cutting the end of the fruit by the foot. (This was the girls favorite)
* I made floating ghosts by drawing faces on white helium balloons and draping cheese cloth over them.
* I created an abandoned house feel by draping all the furniture with white sheets.
* Party favors were black boxes with white cakes inside labeled "ghost cake" and test tubes filled with jelly bellys and labeled, spider eggs, eye of Toad, etc. (Thanks to Martha Stewart for these)

We all had such a great time. The girls were wonderful. I enjoyed every minute with them and really loved getting to know one girl that I hadn't spent any time with before. HUGE thanks to Tori for staying the whole time, running Halloween twister and driving the girls around trick or treating. And the biggest thanks to my husband who did all the headstones, hung all the spider webbing, helped make food and ran the doughnut game. He is so great and everyone LOVED his costume. Doesn't he look real?

P.S. Why are there numbers on the bottom of my slide show? I've never done one of these before!
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