A fun Halloween in two thousand thirteen

Hey, that rhymes!!

Well, it really was a fun Halloween this year.  We had our annual Halloween parade at school, which is always fun.  This year, they had the 4th graders singing spooky songs as all the other kids walked by.  It's always great to see what costumes the kids come up with.  Some of them are really creative!

This year, me and Brody dressed up as a sheep and a shepard.  My costume was a lot harder to make than I thought it would be, and I think I lost half of my "fur" by the end of the night.  Oh well, at least you get the idea!

Here's a close-up of my costume so you can see the fur better -
I just used pillow stuffing and spray adhesive

That night, we went to a party at our friends' new house.  The theme was "black magic."  My assignment was dessert, so I made caramel popcorn in a magic cauldron and "black magic cupcakes" (AKA: Oreos and Cream cupcakes)

The rest of the food and decorations were awesome as well:

We played a few games including "Guess the flavor" - Nicole bought 6 different sodas from Rocket Fizz that were all relatively the same color and covered the bottles with black paper.  She gave us all a swig of each and we had to guess what flavor it was.  Some were yummy, others, not so much (as you can tell from the picture)

Flavors from left to right: Peach, PB&J, pumpkin pie, red cream soda, cinnamon
{not pictured: watermelon}

Made caramel apples

Then we spent the rest of the night playing pictionary.  It was rather hilarious since the majority of us can't draw.

This picture makes me laugh - I just randomly aimed the camera and clicked to get a picture with my friend Foxy and this is how it turned out.  I have a floating hand and in the background, Stan looks disgusted that I'm taking a picture with a dog. 

Here's the whole group:

Left to right: Chelsey and Stan- Lego people, Nicole- Cat,
Casey- Edward Scissorhands, Me- Sheep, Brody- Shepard

And cute little Miles- the pinata (Stan and Chelsey's little boy), who didn't make it into the group picture:

{{Not pictured: Piper- the mouse (Nicole and Casey's little girl), who slept through the entire party.}}

It was a great evening!!  I love this holiday, and this year definitely didn't disappoint.